Tarun Tejpal, the founder of Tehelka, has been arrested from the Goa crime branch office on charges of raping a junior colleague, reports NDTV.
Tejpal will now be taken to a local hospital for a check-up before he is taken into custody.
Judge Anuja Prabhudesai, who was hearing the bail plea, has allowed Tejpal to take the assistance of his lawyer briefly once a day during interrogation after he is taken into custody.
He will also be allowed to have home-cooked food.
Earlier in the day, Tejpal had offered to submit his passport in court to avoid arrest. He was present in court, along with his wife and daughter.
“Mr Tejpal is ready to stay in Goa till the time it was required by the investigating agency,” his lawyer had said.
The prosecution also said the CCTV footage from the hotel confirmed sexual assault and that the defence had ‘added salt to injury by questioning the integrity of the girl'.
Tejpal is accused of raping the reporter at an annual Tehelka conference in Goa earlier this month. She did not press charges, but detailed her allegations against him to her boss at Tehelka, Shoma Chaudhary, in an email that was leaked.
The Goa Police used that email to commence its investigation against Tejpal. Ms Chaudhary resigned as Tehelka's Managing Editor on Thursday.