17 May 2022  |   07:11am IST

Mother seeks justice for 19-year-old son in coma

Alleged police trying to save the accused; Police refute allegation

Team Herald


PANJIM: Jafer Shahin Saudagar, mother of 19-year-old boy has demanded justice be served to her child and that the strict action should be taken against the accused person. Saudager’s son was severely injured after a group of people assaulted him at Baga who later went in coma. He is presently undergoing treatment at the Goa Medical College Hospital, Bambolim.

Addressing the media person at Azad Maidan on Monday, Saudager,  said, “I was accompanied by my three children who were standing at the Club’s entrance. Adding she said, the group of people including the guards suddenly started to beat my children. When I intervened and asked for the reason behind the violence, they called up more people who came with hockey sticks and bat and started to beat my children’s. 

Recollecting she said “One of the person named Ashish Palekar hit my son’s head with the hockey stick so hard that he vomited the blood while he collapsed on the ground.  They assaulted me with foot kicks”, she added with a cry.

She alleged that the police officers are trying to save the accused.

She said, “Police says the investigation is on but accused person is roaming freely and has been not yet arrested.” 

Refuting the allegation of inaction by Calangute woman Shahin Saudagar in connection with brutal assault on her son, the police said that the accused has been arrested and has been lodged in Colvale jail. 



According to her accomplice, who has accompanied him at the press briefing alleged that no shopkeeper is ready to hand over the closed-circuit camera television (CCTV) footage of this unfortunate incident to them since according to him the police has threatened the shopkeepers  to not to forward the footage to anyone. He informed that the case was registered at the police station on the same day that is on the night of May 7 but so far no action has been taken.


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