Victim undergoes medical test; case transferred to women’s cell
PANAJI
Police were tight lipped about details of the case and refused to divulge the name of the accused as a preliminary inquiry was still on.
Briefing the media, Superintendent of Police (crime) with additional charge of SP North, Kathik Kashyal stated, “ As of now, an offence has been registered under Section 3 and 4 (penetrative sexual assault) of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO), 2012, Section 8 of Goa Children’s Act, 2003 and Section 342 (wrongful confined), 328 (causing hurt by various means), 370 (buying or disposing of any person as slave) and 376 (rape) of IPC against a person called ‘Babush’.
The case was transferred to Women’s Police Station, Panaji late evening on the same day. Following this, she was taken in for medical test at the Goa Medical Collegeand Hospital, Bambolim.
No truth in allegations: Babush
Santa Cruz legislator Atanasio “Babush” Monserrate denied the allegations of sexually assaulting a girl, who was formerly his employee.
“There is no truth in the allegations. These are all to frame me … to fix me. There is an entire process of law that needs to be gone through and I will have to face it,” Monserrate who is presently out of the state told The Goan.
“I will be returning to the state tomorrow,” he added.
Monserrate alleged that he sacked the girl from a store he used to operate because she was caught stealing.
“More than one and a half month ago, she was caught stealing and I had subsequently sacked her. I had given her a job, because her mother had approached me seeking that she be given employment,” Monserrate said.
It’s a frame up,
says UGDP
MARGAO: The United Goans Democratic Party leadership on late Wednesday night declined to comment whether the registration of the rape case against Babush Monsarrete would have a fall out on moves by the Santa Cruz MLA to take over the regional party.
