Tehelka managing editor Shoma Chaudhury had earlier said that she had forced Tarun Tejpal to issue an "unconditional apology" to the young journalist who had accused him of sexually assaulted her. Tejpal too said that all his "actions so far were out of an attempt to preserve the girl's dignity and on Shoma's adamantine feminist-principle insistence that [he] keep correct form by apologising."