the goan I network
MAPUSA
A Mapusa court on Sunday remanded the swimming coach, Surajit Ganguly, who has been accused of rape, to six days police custody.
The coach was flown down to Goa late Saturday night and was produced before the Judicial Magistrate First Class, Sarika Phaldessai next morning.
“We produced him before the JMFC court, Mapusa today morning for custody. The court has remanded him to six days police custody,” said DySP, Gajanan Prabhudessai.
The accused was brought to Goa on a three day transit remand obtained from a Delhi court.
The coach, who was on the run, soon after a video of him allegedly molesting the minor girl went viral on social media, was arrested from the Kashmere Gate area in New Delhi on Friday.
According to police he kept changing his location in bid to evade arrest.
The minor’s father in a complaint had accused the coach for sexually harassing his daughter for the last six months.
Based on his complaint, Mapusa Police had registered a case against the coach under Sections 461 (trespass), 354 (outraging modesty), 376 (rape) and 506 (ii) (criminal intimidation) of the IPC, Section 8 of the Goa Children’s Act and Sections 6 and 8 of POCSO Act.
Incidentally, both the minor girl and the alleged accused coach are native of West Bengal.
