PERNEM
A bartender at a resort in Dandos wada in Mandrem has been arrested for allegedly attacking a foreign tourist and a local person, who had gone to her rescue, with a knife in the wee hours of Wednesday.
This is the second incident of a staffer allegedly attacking a foreign tourist after trespassing into a hotel room in the wee hours along the Mandrem-Morjim coast in less than a week.
According to reports, the incident took place at around 2 am when the accused, Abhishek Verma (27), hailing from Dehradun-Uttarakhand, trespassed into the rented tent of the complainant at the resort and tried to hold her.
When she started to scream for help, a local person went to rescue her from the accused and seeing his presence, Verma ran away.
The accused later returned with a knife and attacked the local person and the woman, before fleeing from the site.
The complainant and the local sustained grievous injuries and were both shifted to hospital for treatment.
Acting on a complaint filed by the woman, a police team led by PI Dattaram Raut, PSI Vivek Halarnkar and PSI Harish Vaigankar began investigations and arrested Verma under Sections 452, 354, 506(ii), 307 IPC. Police also recovered the knife used in the crime.
PSI Halarnkar is investigating the case under the supervision of PI Dattaram Raut, Pernem SDPO Rajesh Kumar and under the overall supervision of SP North Nidhin Valsan.
Earlier on March 24, two staffers were arrested on charges of assaulting and injuring a Russian woman at her room in a hotel at Morjim in the wee hours of Friday.
The 30-year-old Russian woman was in her room when two persons entered through the slanting window at about 3 am.
When the woman woke up, the two accused caught hold of her hands and pressed her mouth, due to which the complainant sustained injuries to her lips and one tooth got uprooted.
Following a police complaint, Pernem police rounded up the staff working at hotel and after interrogation, two suspects Abinash Goria of Assam and Mohammad Faizal Khan Jharkhand disclosed having committed the crime and were later arrested.
