TEAM HERALD
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MARGAO: The South Goa Additional District and Sessions Judge Vandana Tendulkar on Friday heard arguments in the anticipatory bail filed by accused Chetan Bandodkar, from Khodnamol, Kalay, Saguem who is charged under section 376, 313, 323, 504, 506(ii) IPC for rape and assault on a 29-year-old woman from Kalay and reserved order for April 4.
It may be recalled that upon complaint from victim, Colva police registered an offence against the accused who fearing arrest moved for anticipatory bail. The complaint stated that in year 2012 at a hotel in Colva the accused Bandodkar on the pretext that he would marry her allegedly had sexual intercourse on several occasions due to which she became pregnant. Further that the accused abused, assaulted and threatened the victim with dire consequences if she did not abort the pregnancy, forcibly took her to a hospital in Ponda and without consent of victim aborted the said pregnancy in July 2012.
Public Prosecutor Banudas Gaonkar argued that crime committed by the accused is of serious nature and the accused is required in custody for medical examination and thorough investigation. Further PP Gaonkar stated that if the accused is released on bail he may threaten the victim as the accused stays in the same area. That evidence regarding abortion is yet to be collected and statements of witnesses are yet to be recorded.
