20 Feb 2017  |   07:58pm IST

CB interrogates Sada guards in Karbotkar murder case

Team Herald

PANJIM: The Crime Branch (CB) sleuths are interrogating the Sada sub jail guards as it has launched a fresh investigation into the killing of gangster Vinayak Karbotkar, over a week after the case was transferred from Mormugao police station. The ongoing investigation has however not recorded arrest of any suspect or accused as on date.

CB SP Umesh Gaonkar said the investigation team is questioning the jail guards, who were on duty when Vinayak was attacked in a clash between the jail inmates on the night on January 23. “We took over all the required documents (from Mormugao police) when the case was handed over to us for investigation. The jail guards, who were present on duty at the time of the incident in the jail premise, are being questioned,” he told Herald.

The deceased accused’s father Tulsidas Karbotkar had earlier this month approached the Director General of Police Dr Muktesh Chander demanding to hand over the case to the CB. He had accused the jail authorities and the staff of three police stations for the fatal attack on his son. “The jail authorities along with the staff of Verna, Vasco and Mormugao police stations are responsible for the assault (on Vinayak) on account of which he sustained serious and grave injuries, resulting in his death in judicial custody. Vinayak was intentionally inflicted injuries on his body,” the letter stated.

Vinayak, who was serving jail for allegedly murdering history sheeter Ashpak Bhengre in Colvale Jail in June 2016,

 

was killed inside the jail at Vasco on January 23 after a fight broke out between two groups of jail prisoners

. The First Information Report is registered under sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempted murder) and other charges of the Indian Penal Code.