DHAKA: The managing editor of Indian investigative magazine Tehelka quit Thursday after coming under fire over her handling of allegations that the publication’s founder sexually assaulted a reporter.

In an email to staff, Shoma Chaudhury denied being part of a ‘cover-up’ to protect Tehelka’s founder and editor Tarun Tejpal who is under investigation over claims he sexually assaulted the woman twice in a hotel in the holiday state of Goa.

However, Chaudhury, who announced last week that Tejpal was standing aside for six months over what he has described as ‘a bad lapse of judgement’, acknowledged that ‘she could have done many things differently’.

The alleged victim, who has since resigned from the English-language monthly magazine, first made the allegations against Tejpal in a detailed email to Chaudhury, reports The Straits Times.

BDST: 1738 HRS, NOV 28, 2013