Panaji: The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court has rejected Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal's bail plea in the sexual assault case. This even as a Goa court granted permission to Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal, currently in jail on rape charge, to meet his ailing mother.
Tejpal had moved a plea before the court on Thursday to permit him to visit his ailing mother who is in a hospital in Panaji.
The application along with attached copies of Tejpal's mother's medical certificates was submitted before Additional Sessions Judge. He said that his mother Shakuntala Tejpal suffers from brain tumour and is in the last stages of her life.
She is admitted in an intensive care unit of a hospital in Mapusa town, 50 km away from the Sada sub-jail, where he is currently lodged, his application said.
Tejpal pleaded for court directives to the jail superintendent, to take him to meet his mother in hospital.