Being put up in a VIP suite close to the elevator where Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal sexually assaulted a junior colleague appears to have put the media spotlight on Hollywood legend Robert De Niro, for no fault of his.

De Niro, who finds his name inadvertently mentioned twice in the first information report filed by Goa Police, was the subject of a question from a reporter to Goa's Deputy Inspector General (DIG) O.P. Mishra.