New Delhi: The Goa bench of the Bombay high court on Thursday, June 24, adjourned till July 29 an appeal filed by the Goa government against the acquittal of Tarun Tejpal in a 2013 rape case.A division bench of Justices M.S. Sonak and M.S. Jawalkar allowed the Goa government to amend its appeal in a week and serve a copy of it along with related documents to Tejpal in another week.Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Tejpal, told the bench that they had not received a copy of the Sessions Judge’s judgment and they would require some time to prepare.The bench then said it would hear the appeal on July 29.Also read: How in Tarun Tejpal Judgment, the Victim Became the AccusedOn May 21, in what has since been a much-criticised judgment, Sessions Judge Kshama Joshi had acquitted Tejpal, the former editor-in-chief of Tehelka magazine. Tejpal was accused of sexually assaulting a colleague in the lift of a five-star hotel in Goa in November 2013, when they were attending an event.The judge had questioned the victim’s conduct in her 527-page judgment, noting that she did not exhibit any kind of normative behaviour such as trauma and shock, which a victim of sexual assault might show.LiveLaw has reported that the Goa government has cited the trial court’s “lack of understanding of a rape victim’s post-trauma behaviour,” and its used of the victim’s history and education as legal bias against her in its appeal. The government has also alleged that the observations were driven by patriarchy.