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7-day police remand for security guard murder accused

MARGAO
The accused in the murder of 66-year old security guard, Siddharamayya Wandal, at the Cuncolim Industrial Estate, has been remanded to seven days police custody.

The Cuncolim police headed by IO PI Therron D’Costa has also recovered the iron pipe which was allegedly used by accused Lakshi Basumatary, aged 45 years, a native of Assam.

The Cuncolim police had achieved a major breakthrough in the murder case when they managed to nab Basumatary from Margao railway station. The accused was absconding since the commission of the offence.

The security guard, deployed at a boat craft company, was found murdered on the intervening night of November 23 and 24. 

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Parrikar never rejected track-doubling: CM

THE GOAN NETWORK
Published Dec 1, 2020, 12:31 AM IST
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PANAJIChief Minister Pramod Sawant on Monday debunked claims that his predecessor, the late Manohar Parrikar, had rejected the South Western Railways’ double-tracking project.“Manohar Parrikar had never rejected railway double-tracking,” Sawant said in a riposte to a national television network when the interviewer mentioned Parrikar’s rejection of the project.Sawant further said Parrikar had written that concerns of the people whose homes were on the block for the project…

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