Goemkarponn Desk
PORVORIM: Porvorim Police have arrested 05 accused persons from Goa, Karnataka and Uttar
Pradesh in connection with a gruesome attempt to murder case at Reis-Magos.
As per PI Porvorim Anant Gaonkar a complaint was lodged on 21/06/2023 by the victim Shivaji Khanapurkar N/o Khanapur, Karnataka complaining that some unknown accused persons had attacked him with some weapons resulting in fracture of both legs and other serious injuries on the rest of the body. An FIR under sections 307, 326, 506(ii), 120-B, 143, 147, 148 R/w 149 IPC was registered.
In this connection a team was formed for investigation purpose. There were no any description of the suspected accused persons. Based on technical surveillance and information from reliable sources police finally managed to crack the blind case after 05 days and identified the accused persons.
The accused person Mr. Vishal Rathod, aged 26 yrs, R/o Birla Zuari Nagar, Mormugao was arrested from Zuari Nagar while accused person Mr. Khudbodin Shaikh, aged 19 yrs R/o Baina, Vasco was arrested from Vasco.
The third accused person Mr. Mohammad Faizan Sayyad, age 20 yrs N/o Belgavi, Karnataka was arrested from Belgavi. The remaining 02 accused persons namely Mr. Shiva Singh, age-20 yrs and Mr. Rishoo Singh both N/o Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh were nabbed at Mopa Airport after laying a trap.
Police have recovered the weapons and the vehicles used for commission of the crime including one Maruti Swift car and one Honda Dio scooter.
Presently all the accused persons are in police custody. The motive behind the crime is previous enmity over money lending.
The investigation was supervised by SP North Nidhin Valsan IPS and SDPO Vishwesh Karpe and the team consisted of PI Porvorim Anant Gaonkar, PSI Sanket Talkar, PSI Sitaram Malik, PSI Pratik Bhat Prabhu and constables Nitesh Gawde, Yogesh Shinde, Mahadev Naik, Utkarsh Dessai and Siddhesh Naik.