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PANAJI
The Goa Human Rights Commission has issued an order to the Director General of Police and Chief Secretary to submit a detailed report of the alleged assault on 20-year-old Football Fan Lester D’souza by December 14. Quoting the media, the Commission’s member A D Salkar issued the directions to the DGP and Chief Secretary on Friday.
Lester was allegedly brutally assaulted by security personnel including the police on November 8 during the Indian Super League match between FC Goa and Delhi Dynamos at the Fatorda stadium.
After a public uproar over the incident, the Goa police has already ordered departmental action against the two police sub-inspectors linked to the incident.
Also, the Sub-divisional police officer, Salcete, DySP Raju Raut Dessai, conducted an internal inquiry and submitted his report to the DGP Muktesh Chander.
Chander had ordered the inquiry in which Lester’s parents, Seby and Tina D’Souza, two of his friends among others had deposed in the inquiry.
Two PSIs Raunak Kadam and Dattaprasad Toraskar attached to the India Reserve Battalion and two other constables were interrogated in the inquiry proceedings.
The report mentions that while police personnel followed the protocol of dispersing the crowd after the match concluded, the two PSIs should not have lost their cool during the process.
