Indian court convicts journalist Tarun Tejpal of rape, overturning acquittal

A woman was sexually assaulted in a lift during a 2013 conference; the survivor endured a decade-long legal process including an initial acquittal that questioned her credibility.

A decade after a young woman reported being assaulted in a hotel lift during a media conference in Goa, India's Bombay High Court has overturned the acquittal of Tarun Tejpal — once among the country's most celebrated investigative journalists — and sentenced him to ten years in prison. The reversal is notable not only for its outcome but for what it repudiates: a lower court's reasoning that questioned the survivor's credibility because she appeared to be smiling in photographs taken shortly after the assault. In a country still working through its relationship with sexual violence and instit

Indian court convicts journalist Tarun Tejpal of rape, overturning acquittal

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