A court granted bail to Sharlet Furtado, the headmistress of the school in Vasco town, where a seven-year-old girl was raped on January 14.
The IGP also said that they have ten witnesses, who collaborate this version of events. He said the police are awaiting the testimony by British national Micheal Mannion aka Masala who had given a statement to the foreign media regarding what he saw on that fateful night. Kumar also said that the statements by the witnesses and the accused are similar. He said that Samson had admitted to sexually assaulting Scarlette
A 36-year-old conman, who allegedly duped Congress Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament Vijay Darda of Rs 34 lakh by posing as former Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat, has been arrested, police said on Friday. The accused, Digambar alias Balasaheb Khaire Patil, was arrested from Solapur.
The bench said most of the allegations in the corruption case registered by the CBI against Sisodia were "hearsay", based on the statements made by approvers and would not pass scrutiny before the trial court without any concrete material.
Even after four days, the state police have failed to make any arrest in the Margao blast case as the Special Investigation Team continued their investigation in the state.
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The seizure, as per officials, is estimated to be worth over Rs 10 crore in the international market (about Rs 5K-7K per blot) and all the six who have been taken into custody, beginning late last month, are students and youngsters who wanted to make 'easy money' by remaining anonymous within the deep layers of secret internet-based apps and messenger service like WICKR.
Inspector Ashish Shirodkar, who was named by an alleged Israeli drug dealer on a video tape shot with a spy camera, is among the arrested police personnel, he said.
Sanatan Sanstha's link to Margao blast conspiracy is getting thicker with all five accused arrested in the case having allegiance to the Hindu right wing organisation operating from Goa, police said.
Pastor Domnic D'Souza and his wife Joan were arrested on Thursday night after separate complaints were lodged against them by two persons, who accused them of indulging in religious conversions, the official of Mapusa police station said.
In further progress of the probe into the serial killings case, the two persons arrested for alleged murder of a 16-year-old girl, have confessed to killing two more women and burning their bodies to destroy evidence, a senior police official said on Saturday. Chandrakant Talwar and Sayron Rodrigues were arrested by Goa Crime Branch in Mumbai on Friday for allegedly killing Evita Rodrigues.
In the tribal village of Cauvrem in South Goa, people now meet more often to decide their strategy against mining trucks, which are operating illegally in the locality resulting in destruction of paddy and chilly cultivation.
The Goa police on Thursday confirmed that eight out of the ten dead bodies found across the state in the span of three days were murders, and said it has made an important breakthrough in at least four deaths, with the arrest of a man in this connection.In a late night operation, the police arrested a slum-dweller, Babu Reddy. The police also detained some others for questioning in connection with the killing of a family of four, including a 35-year-old woman.
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the bail plea of Tehelka founder Tarun Tejpal, an accused in a rape case, and issued notice to the Goa Police.
Former Public Works Department Minister Churchill Alemao has been arrested in connection with the Louis Berger bribery case by Goa police which is closing in on former chief minister Digambar Kamat and preparing to oppose his anticipatory bail plea.
Pop singer Remo Fernandes was on Friday arrested by Goa Police and later released on a bail bond when he appeared before investigating officer in connection with a case of alleged verbal abuse of a minor girl.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) will quiz Israeli national David Griham alias Dudu, arrested in Goa for allegedly dealing in drugs.
The sessions court had on Friday rejected Teltumbde's anticipatory bail application.
A 25-year-old Russian tourist had alleged that John raped her on December 1 mid-night after spiking her drink. Police Inspector Sunita Sawant told PTI that the Crime Branch had initiated efforts to trace the accused but he was unavailable.
Goa Police has registered an FIR against several persons, including government officers who were allegedly involved in clearing the controversial five-storey project comprising 80 flats.
A FIR has been filed against expelled Congress legislator Atanasio Monserrate.
The Goa Children's Court has acquitted Rohit, son of state Education Minister Atanasio Monserratte, on the charge of raping a German minor girl. Rohit was arrested in November 2008 for allegedly raping a 14-year-old German girl and sending her lewd messages. The court acquitted Rohit on Wednesday as the mother of the victim and the girl refused to cooperate with the prosecution. Both have returned to Germany and were not available to testify before the court.
The Mumbai police on Friday arrested big-time bookie Shobhan Mehta in connection with the IPL betting case after picking up him from Goa. The latest arrest takes the number of arrests in the case to 17.
Believe it or not, but terror outfit Indian Mujahideen sent the operatives who successfully carried out the July 2011 blasts in Mumbai on a vacation to Goa!
Sanatan Sanstha member Prashant Juvekar, arrested for his alleged role in the 2009 Goa blast, was included in the group tasked with engineering the explosion due to his 'aggressiveness' in propagating the outfit's ideology, Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad officials said on Tuesday.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sonali Phogat was drugged at a party by her two associates who have been now named as accused in the case related to her 'murder', Goa Police said on Friday.
Ramani's arrest came on a day when she approached a Delhi court seeking bail in the cheating and forgery case. In her application, Ramani alleged she had unnecessarily been framed in the case.
Bodies of two men were extricated from the rubble this morning as rescue operations entered the seventh day, Director of Fire and emergency services Ashok Menon told PTI.
Locals of Ramnathi in North Goa district where the Sanatan Sanstha is headquartered, have demanded a ban on the right-wing outfit and urged the state government to ensure that its ashram is shifted out of their village failing which they would intensify their agitation against them and their 'sadhaks' (seekers).
Goa police are expected to sum up their investigations in the sexual assault case allegedly involving Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal and file a charge sheet by this month end, an official said on Sunday.
The sex racket involving the Uzbek women was unearthed last week by police, who trapped them by sending a decoy. The women had told the police about Jureau, who was initially mistaken by police to be Russian.
Police are continuing their look-out for Swedish model Lucky Mngrda, 34, after the 'whistleblower,' who has worked as an extra in Bollywood films and in reality TV show Villa Medusa, claimed to have in possession further video evidence of links between the Goa police and the drug mafia, Swedish news portal The Local cited a report in NDTV.
The letters were reportedly recovered after the anti-Naxal operations in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli, in which 39 Maoists were killed, in April.
Rajkumar Singh, a native of Punjab, was nabbed late Saturday night with help from the police of Karnataka capital and was being brought to Goa, a top official said.
Former Tehelka managing editor Shoma Chaudhury and three other witnesses have been summoned by the Goa police to record their statement before a magistrate in the case of alleged sexual assault against the magazine's editor Tarun Tejpal.
Both the senior officers were arrested yesterday from their residences in Goa, CBI's Anti Corruption Bureau SP S S Gavli told PTI on Tuesday, refusing to divulge the exact location and names and designations of the officers.
The charge sheet against Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal in connection with the sexual assault case would be filed by next week.
Pakistan-India bilateral relations remained frozen for the fourth year over the vexed Kashmir issue but analysts hope the strained ties could be repaired if Nawaz Sharif becomes the prime minister for a record fourth time in the general elections in February in the absence of his main challenger Imran Khan who is in jail in multiple cases.
With the recovery of three more bodies from the debris, the death toll in Canacona building collapse in Goa has risen to 24 even as the operation to remove the rubble has entered its final phase.
The Goa police will quiz two top officials of ethnic lifestyle retailer Fabindia on Tuesday in connection with the voyeurism case filed against the outlet's staff after Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani alleged that the store had a CCTV camera focusing at the trial room.
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