Cop: I failed to refer Cipriano for check up
HERALD REPORTER
PANJIM, MARCH 10
In his final deposition, suspended head constable Sandip Shirvaikar on Wednesday admitted that he failed to send Cipriano Fernandes for medical examination after his arrest on January 7 and that he had been issued a memo by Police Inspector Sandesh Chodankar for the lapse.
In an apparent effort play down his lapse, he said he “forgot to carry out medical check up of the victim as I was busy with another case.”
Deposing before Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Shabnam Sheikh, the head constable also stated that Georgina Nunes might have assaulted Cipriano before his arrest on January 7.
However, Shirvaikar said he was relying on rumours that Georgina had beaten up Cipriano before he was arrested on January 7.
“When she came to file a complaint against Cipriano of threatening her, she did not inform us that she had beaten up Cipriano. I heard people talking about Georgina beating him,” Shirvaikar, who stands suspended for procedural lapses, told the court.
Shirvaikar’s admission that he did not refer Cipriano for medical examination would gain greater weightage, if he had known at the time of Cipriano’s arrest that the victim was assaulted by Georgina.
