India sex assault case spotlights powerful predators


  • World
  • Thursday, 28 Nov 2013

Activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), linked to India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), burn a poster of Tarun Tejpal, editor-in-chief of India's leading investigative magazine, during a protest in New Delhi November 22, 2013. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

NEW DELHI, Nov 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The man at the centre of a sexual assault scandal that has whipped India's media into a frenzy is no average Joe.

Tarun Tejpal is one of India's most powerful journalists, and accusations that he sexually assaulted a colleague have uncovered what lawyers say is an often buried truth - such violence is common in the highest echelons of society.

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