Team Herald
PANJIM: In a late Saturday night drama, the Old Goa police arrested four persons for allegedly kidnapping a Chimbel resident, who was thereafter rescued with the timely action by the police team led by Police Inspector Jivba Dalvi.
“We received information that four persons abducted a man from Gaulebhat, Chimbel. We immediately rushed to the site and found the victim was thrown on the road side. The accused persons threw him off their bike on noticing that the police were chasing them,” he said.
The victim Vishwamber Shirvaikar was rescued and his complaint was recorded wherein he stated that he owns a Bar & Restaurant at Gaulebhat, Chimbel and on Friday night at around 8:30pm he had stopped the four persons from picking up a fight outside his premise.
“The accused persons along with few persons returned on their bikes and cars at 09:15 pm and damaged the restaurant and assaulted him, his father and one Ganesh with alcohol bottle and choppers. They forced Vishwamber to sit on their scooter and began proceeding to unknown place in order to kill him. However police got information and timely intervention saved the life of the complainant,” the PI said quoting the case details from the complaint copy.
On registering the FIR, PI Dalvi immediately formed a team and launched a combing operation in and around the village. Within two hours, all the accused persons namely Anar Vagmude, Chetan Vagmude, Vinayak Vagmude and Gaurish Fatarpekar, all residents of Merces were arrested and have been remanded in police custody for seven days.
