Tejpal case: No CCTV footage from hotel elevator

Panaji: In what could be a setback for the sexual assault probe against Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal, police said Saturday CCTV cameras were not installed in the hotel elevator where Tejpal is alleged to have sexually assaulted his junior colleague twice. “There are no CCTVs in the elevator,” Deputy Inspector General of Police O.P. Mishra told reporters at a press conference at the police headquarters. The victim in her complaint to Tehelka managing editor Shoma Chau-dhury had said that Tejpal had sexually assaulted her twice in the elevator in the Club House section of the Grand Hyatt five-star resort during the high profile conference Think Fest Nov 7-8. Tejpal in a statement released Friday also requested investigators to “examine and release the CCTV footage so that the accurate version of events stands clearly revealed”. (IANS)