Team Herald
CALANGUTE: Even as the State government continues to be lax towards the drugs menace in Goa, it has emerged that banned substance was the key reason for Harish Tanwar, a 23-year-old student from Delhi, getting brutally murdered at Baga beach, on Saturday.
According to a senior police officer, Tanwar resisted when the three accused approached him asking about the weed he was smoking, a scuffle erupted when he refused to entertain them. Then all the three accused tried to steal his bag, which escalated into the deadly stabbing.
“The deceased was sitting at one corner in the dark at the Baga beach and smoking the banned substance, where all three approached Tanwar asking for the smoke, which he refused. Then they (accused) started stealing his bag of valuables where the scuffle turned into stabbing that resulted in the death,” a senior police officer said.
All the three accused have accepted of committing the crime, court has granted seven days police custody with the investigation officer.
“There were multiple stabbing injuries on the body of Tanwar and as per postmortem report the death was due to excessive bleeding,” said a senior police officer.
It may be recalled that Tanwar was found dead on the Baga beach around 200 metres away from the famous night club lane at around 1 am on Saturday. His body was later sent to the Goa Medical College for post-mortem examination where it was revealed that Tanwar has multiple stab injuries all over his body and he bled to death.
The Calangute Police on Monday registered a murder case against the trio after receiving the post-mortem report. Police later scanned the area and rounded up three suspects who confessed that they had brutally stabbed the deceased with a knife and fled with his belongings.
According to police, the accused make their living by selling the spurious substances to the tourists and by committing petty thefts, as per locals.
