Team Goemkarponn
SANCOALE: The body of a 35-year-old driver who had reportedly gone missing after a road accident was found near an ongoing flyover construction site opposite D-Mart in Sancoale on October 13.
According to information received by police at around 3.41 pm, Narayan Naik, a resident of Sancoale, reported that a man was lying by the roadside near the MVR flyover construction site.
Police visited the spot and found the body lying on waste sugarcane molasses near concrete slabs at the bridge construction site in a field alongside the highway.
The deceased was subsequently identified by his brother, Vishwambhar Taral, as Sanket Taral, 35, a resident of Zuarinagar, Sancoale, originally from Ratnagiri, Maharashtra.
During the inquiry, police learnt that Sanket had reportedly met with a self-accident while driving an Eco car on October 11 at around 6.30 pm on the highway towards Vasco, near D-Mart, Sancoale. He was subsequently reported missing from the accident site and had not returned home.
Police conducted an inquest panchnama and sent the body to South Goa District Hospital (SGDH), Margao, for post-mortem examination. The police surgeon reserved the opinion on the cause of death pending the chemical analysis report of the viscera.
The body was later handed over to the family for final religious rites.
The inquiry is being conducted by PSI David Costa of Verna Police Station.
