THE GOAN NETWORK
PERNEM
A murder convict who had been absconding after being released on parole in 2020 was nabbed from a hotel at Devbagh in Malvan-Maharashtra.
According to Pernem police, Yeshwant Samir Bhagat of Pernem had entered into a room at Panshiwada Pernem by cutting the latch of the window grills on September 18, 2002, and had assaulted Kavita Bhagat (37) with a knife on her abdomen. The victim died in the GMC hospital at Bambolim on September 24 while undergoing medical treatment.
Yeshwant Bhagat was arrested in this connection on September 19, 2002.
The case was chargesheeted and the Additional and Session Judge, Panaji, on November 14, 2003, convicted Yeshwant Bhagat of murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs 3,000 and in default to undergo rigorous imprisonment for three months.
The accused was further sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for three years and to pay fine of Rs 1,000 and in default to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one month for the offence punishable u/s 454 IPC.
Pernem police said the convicted prisoner while being released on parole/furlough on October 15, 2020, jump the furlough and did not return/surrender himself before the jail authority at Colvale and had been absconding since then.
On October 22, Pernem police received credible information from reliable sources that the convict prisoner, Yeshwant Samir Bhagat, had been hiding at Devbagh in Malvan by concealing his identity.
Accordingly, a team led by PSI Prathmesh Parsekar proceeded to Devbagh to trace the accused.
Acting on technical surveillance and with the assistance of the Malvan police, Pernem police nabbed Yeshwant Bhagat at a hotel in Devbagh-Malvan where he had sought asylum.
The accused was then brought to the Pernem police station and was placed under arrest under Section 35(1)(i)of BNSS.
The accused was produced before the Sessions Court at Merces for appropriate order to continue and undergo his balance period of sentence.
Further interrogation of the accused is underway under the supervision of Pernem PI Nitin Halarnkar and Pernem SDPO Ashish Shirodkar, under overall guidance of North Goa SP Rahul Gupta.
