MAPUSA
In a major breakthrough and late night development, Goa Police managed to identify and detained three persons in the Shivaji vandalisation incident even as a special team was constituted to investigate the matter on the direction of the Director General Police (DGP).
“The incident of damage to the statue of Shivaji needs to be thoroughly investigated and the culprit traced and therefore a special team may be constituted to investigate the matter,” DGP Jaspal Singh (IPS) said in his order.
The special team was formed under the overall supervision of North Goa SP, Nidhin Valsan along with Mapusa SDPO Jivba Dalvi and Mapusa PI Sitakant Naik.
Police sources informed that two persons who were rounded up on suspicion were brought to the police station for interrogation.
While senior officers in Mapusa Police were tight-lipped on the development sources said that the persons confessed to the crime.
In the meanwhile, on learning of the police breakthrough an agitated crowd comprising of Shiv Premis went on a rampage and thrashed some people related to the persons who were detained.
It is learnt that a crowd of over 100 people have also damaged the houses belonging to these migrants.
