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NEW DELHI/PANAJI: The journalist who has accused Tehelka’s founder-editor Tarun Tejpal of sexually assaulting her in a starred Goa hotel alleged on Saturday evening that he was now trying to intimidate her family and that she feared more harassment was in store for her. Her statement came as a Goa police team flew into New Delhi earlier in the day and spent six hours questioning Tehelka managing editor Shoma Chaudhury and collecting evidence from the magazine’s office.Goa police registered an FIR against Tejpal on Friday, charging him with rape and sexual harassment, but the probe suffered a setback even before it began when the hotel told authorities there was no CCTV inside the elevator where the alleged crime occurred and hence no visual evidence was available. However, in the light of her resolve to fend off pressure, the police hope the Tehelka staff will fly to Panaji early next week and register a formal complain there.Top sources told TOI that the Goa police team will also travel to Mumbai to meet with the girl, who appeared to be under pressure from some colleagues to settle the matter with the Tehelka management."On the night of 22nd of November 2013, a member of Mr Tejpal’s immediate family came to my mother’s house in New Delhi, asking my mother to protect Mr Tejpal and demanded to know 1) who I was seeking legal help from and 2) what I "wanted" as the result of my complaint of sexual molestation," the journalist said."This visit has placed tremendous emotional pressure on my family and I at an intensely traumatic time. I fear this may be the beginning of a period of further intimidation and harassment… I call upon all persons connected to Mr Tejpal and his associates to refrain from approaching me or my family members."The three-member Goa police team, headed by deputy SP Sammy Tavares and accompanied by officers from Delhi Police crime branch, reached Tehelka’s office in southeast Delhi around 4pm and sources said that after six hours of questioning they had a video recording of Chaudhury’s detailed statement on the events and the communications that followed. Sources said she cooperated with the cops.On Sunday, Tavares and his team are scheduled to examine three other Tehelka employees, G Vishnu , Shougat Dasgupta and Ishan Tankha , with whom the woman journalist had allegedly first shared her ordeal. Sources said the police want verify facts and also record her statement before confronting Tejpal.The Goa team is also likely to seize Tejpal’s laptop from which he exchanged emails with Shoma Chaudhary . All emails exchanged among three of them (Tejpal, the woman journalist and Chaudhury) have been sought by the investigative agency.In Panaji, DIG O P Mishra said cops were busy going through footage from 250 cameras installed in the hotel and confirmed there was no specific camera installed in the elevator, when asked about location of the camera of the spot where the incident might have happened.Mishra said the police were in the process of contacting approaching the agency that had installed the surveillance system in the hotel. "I cannot reveal any more information because investigations are on." Tejpal in a statement released on Friday also requested investigators to "examine and release the CCTV footage so that the accurate version of events stands clearly revealed."3.20pm: Tehlka’s managing editor Shoma Chaudhary arrives at the magazine’s office at M-76, GK II.4.40pm: Goa Police and Delhi Police sleuths reach4.45pm-6.45: Team question Caudhary, collect the emails exchanged among the victim, Chaudhury and TejpalCops ask for Tejpal’s mobile phone from which he texted the victim, his laptop and i-padThree other employees, G Vishnu, Shougat Dasgupta and Ishan Tankha – with whom the victim shared her ordeal – are questioned6.45: Addl CP (Crime, Delhi) Ravindra Yadav reaches Tehelka’s office to assist in the probe. Questioning continues till 8pm