Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal on Monday surrendered before Goa court after the Supreme Court refused respite in a sexual assault case was sent to jail.

The High Court of Bombay at Goa last month overturned the trial court ruling that acquitted the journalist and sentenced him to ten years in jail.

A single-judge bench of Justice Alok Aradhe had given him two weeks to surrender. “The appellant shall surrender within 2 weeks and shall furnish surrender certificate,” the court said.

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Tejpal was acquitted of all charges by an Additional Sessions court in Mapusa in May 2021. Then, the court had said the woman’s messages to the accused established she was “neither traumatised nor terrified” and that this “completely belies” the prosecution’s case.

The Goa government appealed to the High Court, which reversed the trial court’s conclusions and convicted him. “The trial court proceeded on a notion that a victim of sexual assault must behave in a stereotypical manner,” the high court said.