Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on Tuesday in a lighter vein offered to dissect the colloquial interpretations of the phrase "removing clothes" during a hearing in the Bombay High Court.

Pleading for the Government of Goa in its appeal against the acuiqttal of former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal in a rape case earlier this year, Mehta made the comments while responding to a plea by Tejpal's counsel Amit Desai, who had sought in-camera hearings of the proceedings related to the appeal and all allied applications.