Complaint details how trust was built before the alleged assault and intimidation
PANAJI
While a village panchayat secretary was arrested on Tuesday in a case of sexual assault, the survivor alleged that she was gradually groomed with promises of help, money and marriage.
In her complaint to the women police station and accessed by 'The Goan', the woman alleged the government official used his position, financial influence and legal pressure to silence her, including by allegedly filing a false cheating case against her.
Identifying the accused, the survivor stated that he was a regular visitor to a Margao wellness spa where she was employed. She traced the beginning of the alleged abuse to March 19, 2025 — the first day of her employment as a manager at the spa.
According to the complaint, the accused visited the spa that day, initiated a conversation and began asking personal questions. “He continuously started asking me about my personal details and began appreciating my personality, stating that I am a very beautiful girl and not supposed to work there,” the complaint reads.
She alleged the VP secretary told her the spa was “a very bad place” and asked her to meet him at a restaurant in the same mall. There, he insisted on taking her phone number and offered to arrange another job for her.
“He immediately called his friend… and requested him to provide me a job,” she stated, adding that he transferred Rs 15,000 to her the same day and later took her out for ice cream.
“As he made all conversations very politely, I started believing him to be a genuine person,” the survivor said, explaining how she shared her PhonePe details and accommodation location with him.
The woman alleged that the following evening, March 20, the accused called her out of the mall, persuaded her to accompany him for food and then took her on a drive despite her refusal. According to the complaint, he stopped at a wine shop, bought beer and pressured her to drink.
“...despite my refusal, he persuaded me and took me for a drive. He stopped at a wine shop, purchased two beer bottles, and requested me to drink, saying that I was looking tired. When I asked him to have one, he refused, stating that he would not drink. After I had a beer in the car, he suddenly stopped the car near a hotel and asked that we go and rest for some time in a hotel room. When I denied the same and requested him to leave me at my accommodation, he said that as I was in a drunken state, I should walk for some time to regain stability, and thereafter he took me to Colva Beach,” she recalled.
She alleged that thereafter, he took advantage of the situation, as the beach was isolated, and sexually assaulted her against her will. The survivor further alleged that after the assault, he gave her Rs 50,000 cash, urging her not to complain. “He said that he would give me more money and ‘settle’ me, and requested me not to raise any complaint as he would lose his job,” she stated.
In the complaint, she added that the accused continued to maintain contact with her in the days that followed, taking photographs and videos with her at churches and beaches in Panaji and repeatedly taking her out for drives. She later returned to her hometown, where she alleged that the accused continued calling her daily and transferring money to her bank account.
The woman stated that over time, the total amount transferred reached Rs 1.33 crore. “He was demanding that I come to Goa and marry him, and he used to torture me over phone calls,” the complaint said, adding that she eventually blocked his number on October 15, 2025.
Days later, she alleged, the VP secretary filed a criminal complaint against her, which led to her arrest on October 28. “In a malicious and premeditated move to escape legal consequences… he filed a fabricated FIR… alleging that I cheated him of Rs 1,33,58,000,” she stated. She was released on bail three days later.
The survivor has further accused the man and his family of pressuring her not to file a rape complaint. She also alleged that the accused forced her to sign a “settlement agreement” on stamp paper in November 2025.
“This agreement… was forced on me under extreme duress, coercion, and the threat of pursuing his false case,” she stated, adding that the document barred her from filing any rape or molestation complaint in exchange for the withdrawal of his case.
The accused, she said, has now disowned the same agreement and stated she was filing the complaint “under constant fear for my safety and severe mental trauma”.
