MARGAO
A day after the police registered an offence over the ruckus at a bar at Porvorim after a video went viral, Jason Furtado on Thursday requested the police to initiate action against the two waiters, besides the two tourists from Kerala for assaulting him and causing grievous injuries.
Addressing the media along with his friend Jemimah Vaz and lawyer, Adv Byron Rodrigues here on Thursday, Jason also requested the Deputy Collector to initiate action against the four persons failing which he has threatened to knock the Judiciary for justice.
He has also requested the Excise Commissioner to cancel the licence of the Porvorim bar since it was operating beyond 11 pm and also requested the deputy Collector to initiate action against the four persons.
Contrary to the video that had gone viral, Jason claimed that he was allegedly beaten up by the two waiters and the tourists from Kerala when he was leaving the bar after purchasing two beer cans. “On 20 August at around 11.30 pm at night I visited the bar at Porvorim to purchase two beer cans and after making payment of Rs 240 at 11.30 pm, one of the waiters without any provocation pulled me from behind when I was leaving. The waiter came outside the premises and assaulted me with blows to which I retaliated in self defence and then both fell outside the restaurant. In a short span of time another waiter came and assaulted me with blows on the pretext that I did not make payment for the beer purchased,” he said.
He added: “When I was being assaulted by blows with these two waiters, the two Kerala tourists without any cause interfered and started assaulting me and they tore my shirt and gave me threats to kill me. The two tourists, who were holding a glass of beer assaulted me and damaged my left knee ligament and assaulted me till they snapped my leg after which I could not stand firmly.”
He further said that his girlfriend Miss Jemimah Vaz came to his rescue after she saw the four persons assaulting him and tried to stop the fight. Jason said the two Kerala tourists allegedly wrongfully restrained his girlfriend by holding her hand and misbehaved and allegedly outraged her modesty by pulling her T-shirt and pushing her inappropriately.
