MARGAO
A group of citizens, including women and human rights activists, called on the Colva police to congratulate them for the swift action in the gang rape at Betalbatim, even as they demanded that no self-respecting lawyer from the state should defend the three accused arrested for the heinous crime. While singing a congratulatory song at the police station to commend the good work done by the Goa police and the Colva police in particular, they demanded that the police maintain a close tab on prostitution and migrants along the coastal belt.
Women rights activist Auda Viegas and Aishwarya Salgaonkar, vice-president human rights organization, made an appeal to the lawyers not to take up the case of the three rapists for their heinous crime against the local woman.
Auda even warned that any lawyer defending the three accused persons will have to face the wrath of the women from Goa.
Auda and Kenneth Silveira demanded that the Goa police strengthen the security on the coastal belt. Ethel Lobo pointed out that the police should maintain a tab on the illegal activities such as prostitution under the guise of massage parlous, even as she called upon the police to vigorously take up verification of the migrants.
In his memorandum, Kenneth Silveira demanded that the three rapists deserve to be hanged for the gang rape of the 20-year-old victim.
Indore police likely to be in Goa
today to interrogate accused
MARGAO: Police investigations have revealed that it was accused Ishwar Marckwana, who is wanted in a number of murder and rape cases in Indore, the first to sexually assault the 20-year old victim in the Betalbatim gangrape.
A team of Indore police has already left for Goa and is expected to reach here on Monday to investigate the host of unresolved rape and murder cases back in the city.
Superintendent of Police, South Arvind Gawas, said that accused Ishwar, a 24-year old casual labourer, was the brain behind the rape on the 20-year-old woman.
SP Gawas pointed out that Ishwar is not only a hardened and habitual criminal, but is involved in a host of unresolved rape cases back home in Indore. “Our information revealed that he is wanted in a murder case in Indore, besides host of rape cases. The Indore police team is coming down to Goa to investigate into all these unresolved cases,” he added.
Goa police, however, said that the Indore police will have to move the courts for a transfer warrant to take the accused back to Indore, only after the local police completes investigations in the Betalbatim rape case.
