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Goa [ Images ] leader Evangelist Fernandes, accused of raping a Slavonic woman on Colva Beach on Dec 1, on weekday given before the Crime Branch in Panaji, nearly a period after he went missing. Deputy Superintendent of Police Chandrakant Salgaoncar told reporters that Evangelist has been settled low collar and he module be questioned to intend boost grounds in the case.
The accused module be live with destroying grounds as he had submitted his simulated clothes to the work authority earlier, the tar said. John, a South Goa-based politician, who unsuccessfully fought the 2007 gathering elections on a Save province Front Party ticket, allegedly raped the woman after spiking her drinks at Colva beach.
Salgaoncar said the accused was absconding since the instance the Panaji governance of Bombay broad suite unloved the preceding recognizance acknowledged to him by the regularise and sessions court.
The accused also approached the Supreme Court with the preceding recognizance appeal but it was unemployed by the apex court. According to the police, the accused walked into the Crime Branch’s duty at Dona Paula with his attorney at 2 pm today.
“He was directly settled low collar as we were hunting for him for his protective interrogation,” he said.
The evildoing division module also make an investigating into John’s movements since he went missing. “If whatever grouping hit helped him to hide, we module make state against them likewise for harbouring a criminal,” the DSP said.
The personnel had issued countenance discover circulars after Evangelist went absent and he was proclaimed an absconder by Judicial Magistrate First Class, Margao.
The Slavonic woman had also questionable that the politician’s aides offered her money to stop the housing against him. The evildoing branch, however, has not conventional some cursive upset from the individual in this regard.
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