British girl raped in entrance of male companion close to Goa seashore: Police

By PTI

PANAJI: A British girl was allegedly raped close to the Arambol seashore in Goa in entrance of her male companion by an area man underneath the pretext of giving her a therapeutic massage, police mentioned on Tuesday.

The accused, native resident Vincent D’Souza (32), was a part of a bunch that illegally provided therapeutic massage companies close to the Arambol seashore in North Goa district, which is sort of standard with worldwide vacationers, they mentioned.

He had additionally labored as a college librarian prior to now, the police mentioned. The Pernem police had arrested him on Monday.

As per the police grievance lodged by the middle-aged girl, who’s on a Goa journey, the accused allegedly raped her underneath the pretext of giving her a therapeutic massage when she was mendacity close to the Sweet Water Lake, situated near the seashore, alongside together with her male companion, an official mentioned.

The alleged incident had taken place on June 2, however the girl lodged the grievance on the Pernem police station on Monday after consulting her relations within the UK and looking for help from the British Embassy in India, he mentioned.

Within an hour of getting the grievance, the Pernem police, led by inspector Vikram Naik, swung into motion and arrested the accused, the official mentioned.

A senior police official mentioned the accused had additionally labored as a librarian at a college prior to now. “We have contacted the police station concerned to get his past records. Currently, he is not working as a librarian,” the official mentioned.

On Monday night time, the accused and the sufferer have been despatched for medical examination on the district hospital in Mapusa city close to right here.

An FIR was registered towards the accused underneath Indian Penal Code Section 376 (rape) and the police would produce him earlier than an area court docket on Monday to hunt his custody, the official mentioned.

Deputy Superintendent of Police (Pernem) Siddhant Shirodkar is supervising the investigation into the case.