Team Goemkarponn
MARDOL: Mardol Police have registered an unnatural death case after the body of a 73-year-old fisherman was found floating in the river near the Madkai ferry point on Thursday morning.
According to police, information was received at around 10.15 am on June 4 that a body was seen floating near the ferry point at Madkai. A police team rushed to the spot and, with the assistance of local residents, retrieved the body from the water.
The deceased was identified as Diwakar Tari (73), a resident of Adanwada, Madkai, Ponda. Identification was made by his brother, Prabha Tari.
During enquiries, police learned that the deceased was a fisherman by profession and had gone out as usual in his wooden canoe to collect clams (tisryo). It is suspected that he accidentally fell into the river and drowned while fishing.
Police conducted the scene-of-occurrence panchanama and inquest proceedings before shifting the body to South Goa District Hospital, Margao, for post-mortem examination. The police surgeon later certified the cause of death as “Asphyxia as a result of drowning in water.”
After completion of legal formalities, the body was handed over to family members for the last rites.
Further enquiry is being conducted by PSI Abhilash Naik of Mardol Police Station.
