The proprietor and a staffer of a seaside shack had been arrested for allegedly assaulting three veterinarians in North Goa’s Candolim following an argument late Friday evening, police stated.
Based on the grievance, round midnight on Friday, the accused shack proprietor and his employees allegedly abused a lady veterinarian from Rajasthan and assaulted her two buddies, additionally from the identical occupation, with a bamboo stick. The 2 suffered accidents on their head and again and had been rushed to a hospital for therapy, stated police.
Additionally it is alleged that the accused pushed the lady physician and misbehaved along with her.
One of many docs instructed the media, “We had gone for dinner to a beachside place round 11.30 pm. After half an hour, after we had been returning, two-three folks had been ingesting liquor at an under-construction shack. They handed an objectionable comment about our lady buddy, who was strolling forward of us, and after we confronted them, they denied passing any remark.”
“This led to an argument. We then determined to stroll to our automobile, which was parked a number of metres forward. Abruptly, a minimum of seven-eight accused males arrived they usually hit me from behind with a bamboo stick. I had a blackout and was bleeding from the pinnacle. The accused additionally hit my buddy. When our lady buddy intervened, they pulled her hair and slapped her too. The accused additionally tried to intimidate us by bringing a pitbull canine. They’d come to beat us. The accused stated, ‘you aren’t from Goa, you shouldn’t have come right here’,” he claimed.
An FIR was registered at Calangute police station beneath model sections of the BNS. Police, in a press release, recognized the accused as Jitendra Singh (24) and Arun Kumar (25) and stated they’ve been arrested.
Goa Congress chief Amit Patkar pointed to the incident to allege that the state is turning into a “haven for shady companies and lawlessness” beneath the BJP.
“Assaults on veterinary docs in Calangute, ladies unsafe in their very own villages – is that this the ‘tourism’ Dr Pramod Sawant and (tourism minister) Rohan Khaunte promote? Governance on the market to the best bidder, whereas Goans undergo. Full failure of legislation and order in Goa beneath essentially the most corrupt BJP authorities in Goa who don’t have any ethical proper to be in energy,” he posted on X.
