The National Commission for Women today said it has written to Goa Police to file an FIR in the alleged sexual assault case against Tehelka Editor Tarun Tejpal. NCW member Nirmala Samant Prabhavalkar told PTI that they have written to Goa Police to take cognizance of the matter and file an FIR against Tarun Tejpal.

She said, the NCW member in-charge of Goa, Shamina Shafiq, who is in Mumbai, spoke to Tehelka Managing Editor Shoma Chaudhury and will try to speak to the girl today. NCW has also written to Justice Markandey Katju, Chairman of the Press Council of India requesting him to intervene and examine the matter on whether Visakha guidelines were followed in this matter or not.

The Goa government had yesterday ordered a probe into the alleged sexual assault by Tejpal on a woman journalist
colleague. The alleged incident happened in a lift in a five star hotel in Goa about 10 days ago.