New Delhi: The embattled editor-in-chief of Tehelka Tarun Tejpal has in an interview to a Delhi-based newspaper has described as "a totally mendacious account" the charges of sexual assault levelled against him by his correspondent.
"My lawyers know I am being framed and are also aware of the political forces driving much of it now," Tejpal told The Indian Express.
"It is a totally mendacious account of what happened, in its details, in its tonalities, in its very suggestion of non-consensus.
"In the cold light of the day, much of it will sound unsavoury, but now the inquiry will reveal it all," the Tehelka promoter said.
Tejpal described the allegation by the victim that he told her the best way to keep her job was by not resisting his advances, was a "half-truth".
