Tejpal had insisted the CCTV footage would exonerate him. He was ultimately acquitted, not because the footage, which he was given a copy of, proved his innocence, but because the court's copy had mysteriously disappeared.

To say that the judgment acquitting the former Tehelka editor was based on the age-old trope of a ravished woman with a misplaced moral compass and peppered with graphic references to the complainant’s supposed sexual past is a gross understatement.

The judge disregards his emailed apology – in which he admits to a sexual encounter with the complainant – on dubious grounds, even though this admission is certainly at odds with his defence, accepted by the judge, that what occurred was merely “drunken banter”.