Along with the journalist-novelist, the name of Robert De Niro, the legendary actor who played Don Corleone in "Godfather 2" finds inadvertent mention in the first information report, a copy of which is in IANS's possession.
De Niro was the biggest star at the Tehelka Thinkfest, a high profile conference held in Goa last week, at a five star resort Grand Hyatt, where a junior employee of the weekly newspaper has accused Tejpal of sexually assaulting her twice in an elevator.
"Let's go wake up Bob (Mr. De Niro) and I asked him why he wanted to do that. I then realized that Mr Tejpal was simply pressing buttons on the lift's panel to make the elevator stay in circuit, preventing it from stopping anywhere, and for the doors to open," says the FIR quoting extensively from the written complaint sent by the victim to Tehelka's managing editor Shoma Chaudhury.
The FIR was filed by police inspector Sunita Sawant at 2 p.m. on Friday.
De Niro, had in all likelihood retired for the night in his VIP suite at the Club House in the resort, only a few metres from the scene of the alleged crime.
