Team Herald
QUEPEM: A group of unidentified persons attacked You Tuber Amit Naik and his driver Chattan Madval at Rivona, Cavrem in Sanguem on Friday night.
The attackers, armed with hockey sticks and rods, targeted their car, leaving it severely damaged. They also pelted stones towards the car. Due to attack, Amit sustained minor injuries, while his driver, Chattan Madval, suffered serious injuries in the assault. The duo escaped by running to take cover in the forest.
Both have now been admitted in the hospital at Quepem. When contacted, Amit said that two assailants attacked him but he fled from their clutches and ran in the opposite direction, where a two-wheeler rider gave him a lift and dropped him about 100 metres away.
Reacting on the attack, Amit’s wife Rakhi Naik, who is also member of Netravali village panchayat alleged that it was a pre-planned attack. She said that some people had alerted Amit to be cautious and to take precautions since he had exposed corruption in the Netravali panchayat wherein lakhs of rupees were paid to a contractor for a gutter which was never built. “It was only because of the corruption issue which we had raised an inquiry is being ordered by the Sanguem BDO and police complaint is likely to be registered. This was an act by coward people and we will not bow down by such attacks,” she said.