NEW DELHI/PANAJI: In what could be a setback for the sexual assault probe against Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal , Goa Police said on Saturday CCTV cameras were not installed in the hotel elevator where Tejpal is alleged to have sexually assaulted his junior colleague twice.

DIG O P Mishra, at a press briefing, on Saturday afternoon said that there was "no specific CCTV camera in the elevator" but the police are examining other footages.

Mishra said that they are approaching the agency that had installed the surveillance system in the hotel. "I cannot reveal any more information because investigations are on," Mishra said.

The victim in her complaint to Tehelka managing editor Shoma Chaudhury had said that Tejpal had sexually assaulted her twice in the elevator in the Club House section of the Grand Hyatt five-star resort during the high profile conference Think Fest.

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".

Sources, however, said CCTV footage from outside the elevator does show the victim leaving the elevator "in a hurry" on one occasion.

A Goa Police team is in Delhi to collect evidence in the case where Tejpal has been accused of rape and outraging the modesty of the victim.

Have spoken with Goa Police: Shoma Chaudhary

Tehelka managing editor Shoma Chaudhary said on Saturday that she had responded to Goa Police and assured them of cooperation in investigations into the sexual molestation charge against the editor-in-chief of the magazine.

"I have given all the information demanded by Goa Police and even talked to them regarding any more help needed from my side," Shoma Chaudhary said, refuting reports in the media that she had not been cooperative with investigators.

She said a wrong version had been floating in the media till now that she was not cooperating with the police team from Goa.

"Look at the factuality and the chronology of the evidence I have given to them. I have interacted with my colleague journalist and the editor-in-chief," Chaudhary said.

(With inputs from IANS)

