Team Herald
PANJIM: The Prisons Department on Monday submitted an inquiry report into the brutal assault on anti-illegal mining activist in the Sada sub-jail, to the government.
Inspector General of Prisons Elvis Gomes confirmed submitting the report. He, however, refused to give details of the findings. “The report has been submitted to the Chief Minister (Laxmikant Parsekar). The government will examine the matter,” he told Herald.
Ravindra Velip, who was arrested for protesting transportation of ore by a mining firm at Caurem, was allegedly beaten up in the jail minutes before he could be released on bail.
In his complaint to the government, Velip had alleged that he was suddenly attacked from behind by about four persons, who first blindfolded him and gagged him with a cloth.
“I was lifted and thrown down from a height resulting in multiple fractures to my forearm and severe pain in my neck,” he had alleged stating that the attack was in retaliation to the villagers’ attempt to stall unregulated mining in the area.
With social activists and villagers demanding a judicial probe, the CM had last week said that he was open to an independent probe subject to the report from the Prisons Department.
