Goemkarponn desk
CANACONA: Rohan Naik (32) accused of murdering Santosh Rivankar (43) is remanded to 7 days Police Custody.
According to Canacona Police Inspector Harish Raut Dessai, who is personally investigating the murder case, Naik who was arrested on Monday for the murder offence of Rivankar was produced at the court of JMFC–Canacona, who remanded the accused for seven days police custody.
It may be recalled that Naik (resident of Partagal) who was assisting one of his friend for constructing a house in the neighbourhood of the deceased (on whose complain – the construction was sealed by Panchayat) at Potkem-Poinguinim, was involved in the scuffle and assault during which Rivankar was pushed to the ground and died. Postmortem gave the cause of death as injury in Cervical Spine of the deceased.
Naik who had fled from the scene after the attack was admitted in SGDH Margao for some minor injuries on Sunday night was however, discharged on Monday, only to be booked u/s 302 IPC and arrested by Canacona police. Soon after obtaining remand, police took Naik for medical check-up before lodging him in police jail.
‘We are trying to collect evidence and piece the information together. As the scuffle was over some property belonging to a third person over continuing construction activities at the Sealed property (by VP Poinguinim on the orders of Dy. Collector), some more people are likely to be summoned for questioning’, informed IO Raut Dessai.
Rohan is accused of continuing with the construction works at the already sealed property (house construction) of his friend (Sagar Morajkar) at Potkem (Poinguinim), and directly abusing the complainant Rivankar’s family with filthy words earlier in the day (Sunday), living in the neighbourhood allegedly at the behest of the behest of his friend, a police constable in police department.
Meanwhile, the body of murder victim Santosh Rivankar is handed over to the family and cremation is carried out at Poinguinim Crematorium on Tuesday, informed sources.
