Team Herald
MARGAO: Goa Police succeeded in arresting 30-year-old Ramchandran Y who had escaped from police custody on June 28, 2019 when he was produced before the Sessions Court for trial in the rape case charged against him.
The accused was arrested at a village called Begali on the border of Karnataka with Tamil Nadu in a true movie style action with Police Inspector Tushar Lotlikar leaping from the police vehicle on Ramchandran who was trying to escape on his scooter.
The police had formed a special team to trace Ramchandran since his escape after a case under Section 224 of the Indian Penal Code for escaping from police custody was booked against him. Police Inspector Tushar’s contact informed that he was hanging around the border of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
Accordingly a police team led by Tushar along with PSI Sagar Dhatkar who knew the accused pretty well since he had originally arrested him in the theft case in Pernem. Incidentally, Ramchandran had escaped from police custody in that case too and fled to Canacona.
At Palolem in Canacona, he raped a foreign lady at 4 am on December 20, 2018 and was arrested by the police at a hotel in Margao soon thereafter and they had recovered the Rs 30 lakh he had stolen from Pernem.
The police went to Begali and on July 15, 2019 having received information that the accused was in that village. They commenced the search operations at 8.30 pm began. They confirmed that it was the accused moving on the red coloured Activa and began chasing him.
However, Ramchandran tried to flee by accelerating but was thwarted by Tushar who leapt from the vehicle on the Activa scooter to stop it. In the melee one constable was also injured along with Tushar while the accused got a burn injury from the silencer of the two-wheeler.
DySP Serafino Dias announced that the team has been awarded by the Director General of Police as well as the Superintendent of Police South and said the accused will be handed over to the Fatorda Police where a case is already booked against him.
