In a late Friday night development, Porvorim police filed an FIR against four policemen attached to Porvorim police station and two others on charges of attempting to murder an advocate GajananSawant on Thursday. Members from the legal fraternity are demanding a proper and fair inquiry into this case.
The FIR was registered against policeman Sandip Parab, Vijay Sammati, the wife of Vijay Sammati and three unknown policemen attached to Porvorim police station under Sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with a deadly weapon), 307 (attempt to murder), 504 (intentional insult with the intent that provocation will break public peace to commit other offence), 506- Sub sec ii (criminal intimidation) read with 149 (every member of the unlawful assembly guilty of the offence committed in prosecution of common object) and 201 (destruction of evidence) of Indian Penal Code.
The offences were booked hours after a large number of advocates from Bardez marched to the Porvorim police station to know why an FIR had not been filed against the police constables attached to Porvorim police station who had allegedly assaulted an advocate GajananSawant.
They claimed that the complaint was filed at 3.30 pm on Thursday and even showed the video clipping to the Porvorim Police Inspector AnantGaonkar showing the police assaulting the advocate Sawant and demanded the registration of the FIR immediately.
