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Cops book protesters, Cong leaders for rioting
By Gerard de Souza | Hindustan Times, Panaji
PUBLISHED ON JAN 08, 2021 03:56 AM IST
On Thursday, the Goa Police filed FIRs against a person identified as Vishwesh Prabhu and other unnamed persons for inciting, rioting and preventing government officials from conducting their duties, along with some Congress leaders.

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant launches a Whatsapp helpline for women in distress
By Asian News International | Posted by Zarafshan Shiraz | Panaji (Goa) [India]
UPDATED ON NOV 24, 2020 10:28 AM IST
In an additional measure of safety for women in the state, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant along with Goa Police launched an exclusive Whatsapp helpline number which ‘will be functional round the clock at the State Police Control Room, Panaji to redress grievances of women in distress’

Goa professor booked for ‘outraging religious sentiments’
By Gerard de Souza | Hindustan Times, Panaji
PUBLISHED ON NOV 10, 2020 04:05 PM IST
She said her criticism of a set of practices and dogma has little to do with disdain or irreverence for religion or religious believers but more to do with the symbolism they represent

Poonam Pandey detained by Goa Police in obscene video case, two cops suspended
By HT Correspondent | Agencies
UPDATED ON NOV 05, 2020 04:29 PM IST
Model-actor Poonam Pandey has been detained by the Goa Police for allegedly shooting an obscene video in the state. Two policemen have been suspended.

‘Extremely sorry state’: Court after Goa says no lab to test seized narcotics
By Gerard de Souza | Hindustan Times, Panaji
UPDATED ON OCT 24, 2020 02:29 AM IST
The court directed the government to make the lab operational within a period of three months.

Cannabis plantation busted in Goa, 3 arrested: Cops
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Panaji
UPDATED ON OCT 19, 2020 04:53 PM IST
The plantation was busted at Querim village in north Goa along the border with Maharashtra.

Ransomware attackers threaten to sell narcotics on Pooja Bedi’s e-commerce website
By Gerard de Souza | Hindustan Times, Panaji
UPDATED ON OCT 05, 2020 01:45 PM IST
In her complaint, Pooja Bedi said that the attackers have threatened to use her site to sell narcotic drugs if she doesn’t pay up.

Goa Police ‘lose track’ of 366 foreigners who jumped bail since 2015
By Gerard de Souza | Hindustan Times, Panaji
PUBLISHED ON SEP 24, 2020 08:41 PM IST
The foreigners who jumped b bail and disappeared are mainly Nigerians but also include Kenyans, Tanzanians, Ghanaians, Israelis and Russians.

Sunburn co-promoter arrested for helping organise rave party in Goa
By Gerard de Souza | Hindustan Times, Panaji
UPDATED ON AUG 18, 2020 11:17 PM IST
Shailesh Shetty is the co-promoter of Sunburn, the biggest dance music festival that returned to Goa last year with the ‘Sunburn Klassique’ avatar in December.

Goa Police bust ‘underground’ rave party, seize drugs worth Rs 9 lakh
By Gerard de Souza
PUBLISHED ON AUG 16, 2020 10:56 AM IST
The police have booked the organisers and the attendees for endangering public safety, organising the party during the coronavirus pandemic as well as violating sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985.

Despite pandemic, flesh trade thriving as demand persists, say social workers
By Gerard de Souza | Hindustan Times, Panaji
UPDATED ON JUL 29, 2020 07:53 PM IST
Goa Police has conducted three raids in eight days – between July 20 and 28 -- to bust flesh trade rackets and mushrooming human trafficking networks.

Cops to crooners: Goa Police now take to singing to urge people to stay home
By Gerard de Souza | Hindustan Times, Panaji
UPDATED ON APR 05, 2020 03:39 PM IST
Police officers across Goa have begun belting out Konkani ‘cantar’ (songs) that are entirely new compositions or with lyrics modified to the tunes of existing songs to get people to stay indoors during the lockdown.

Goa man who wished Covid-19 on those dealing with Jamaat attendees in FB post, held
By Gerard de Souza | Hindustan Times, Panaji
UPDATED ON APR 03, 2020 08:13 PM IST
Mohsin Shaikh, in a Facebook post which he has since deleted, said if the Tablighi Jamaat organisers were wrong they should not be forgiven, but those who are currently harassing them should contract the disease.

Odisha man held for rape, murder of woman in Goa
By Press Trust of India | Panaji
PUBLISHED ON FEB 18, 2020 01:51 PM IST
The decomposed body of the woman, who also hailed from Odisha, was found at a forest area in Porvorim near Panaji on February 10.

Odisha woman raped in Goa, teen arrested: Cops
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Panaji
PUBLISHED ON FEB 14, 2020 07:28 PM IST
The victim’s body was found on February 11, dumped in an isolated place and was noticed by construction workers who informed the police.

Christmas 2019: Goa traffic police dresses up as Santa to spread road safety message
By Indo Asian News Service | Panaji
UPDATED ON DEC 24, 2019 07:36 PM IST
According to inspector in-charge of the Panaji Traffic Cell Brendon D’Souza, the aim of the initiative was to create awareness about following the traffic norms and considering the festive season, Santa Claus was best suited to reach out to the traffic rule violators.

‘He didn’t understand English’: Court frees Japanese man held in drugs case
By Gerard de Souza | Hindustan Times, Panaji
UPDATED ON OCT 04, 2019 05:17 PM IST
Yusuju Hinagata was arrested in July 2013 by the Anti-Narcotic Cell of the Goa Police. He was convicted by the special judge in 2016 who sentenced him to serve 10 years in jail.

Goa cops still to establish identity of foreigner found hanging from tree
By Gerard De Souza | Hindustan Times, Panaji
UPDATED ON OCT 01, 2019 02:03 PM IST
A Caucasian woman, aged 35-40 years, was found hanging from a tree on September 28, but her identity has baffled investigators who are yet to find out who she is.

Rape case: Swimming coach sent in 6-day police remand
By Press Trust of India | Panaji
UPDATED ON SEP 08, 2019 09:37 PM IST
Goa police were earlier granted three-day transit custody of the accused by a Delhi court.

Goa swimming coach, accused of molestation, held
By Gerard de Souza | Panaji
UPDATED ON SEP 07, 2019 01:50 AM IST
Speaking to Hindustan Times, police inspector of the Mapusa Police station, Kapil Nayak, said, “Based on our technical surveillance and local intelligence, we managed to track him in Delhi.

Goa swimming coach, accused of rape, arrested in Delhi
By Press Trust of India | Panaji
UPDATED ON SEP 06, 2019 08:29 PM IST
Goa Police on Thursday registered a case of rape against Ganguly, who was employed with the Goa Swimming Association (GSA).

‘Like hunters posing with trophy’: HC lays into Goa Police for parading mother who abandoned newborn
By Gerard de Souza | Hindustan Times, Panaji
UPDATED ON AUG 31, 2019 08:32 PM IST
The Mapusa Police had arrested a couple from Aurangabad for abandoning a male newborn child, as they couldn’t bear the expenses of raising the infant.

Solapur man stalks, slaps Russian woman in Goa, held
By Gerard de Souza | Panaji
PUBLISHED ON MAY 27, 2019 01:28 AM IST
In her complaint to the police, the tourist alleged that on May 15, as she was walking to her rented accommodation after visiting an ATM at Arpora, she was followed by the man on a scooter and was offered a drop home.

Man held in Ludhiana for killing wife in Goa hotel
By HT Correspondent | Panaji
PUBLISHED ON MAY 04, 2019 12:58 AM IST
Superintendent of police (crime) Pankaj Kumar Singh said Sukhwinder Singh, who was hiding in Ludhiana, had confessed to have murdered his wife by slitting her throat with a knife following a heated argument.

Mother, daughter ‘sell’ same Delhi house to 5 different persons; cheat them of Rs 2.5 crore
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON FEB 20, 2019 09:20 AM IST
The two, identified as Molly Kapoor and her daughter Anuradha Kapoor, had been declared proclaimed offenders (POs) in three cases of cheating that were registered against them between 2014 and 2015.

Goa man wears burkha, enters ladies toilet at bus stand, booked
By Indo Asian News Service | Panaji
UPDATED ON FEB 17, 2019 09:27 AM IST
The accused, Virgil Fernandes was booked after he was caught by the commuters, while exiting a ladies toilet at the bus stand, wearing a burkha and black head gear.

Ex-minister’s son, another arrested for Goa factory blast that killed two
By HT Correspondent | Panaji, Hindustan Times
PUBLISHED ON FEB 01, 2019 04:31 PM IST
The boiler of the plant located within an industrial estate at Tuem village in North Goa exploded on January 12 critically injuring three persons who of whom succumbed to their injuries. Akhil Naik and Ajit Neke succumbed to their injuries.

Iranian man arrested for rape in Goa
By HT Correspondent | Panaji
PUBLISHED ON JAN 29, 2019 08:17 PM IST
The accused, Majid Azizi was previously arrested by the police in connection with a narcotics case but was out on bail and residing at Arambol, a beach village in Goa’s north.

Rape accused escapes from police custody in Goa
By Press Trust of India | Panaji
PUBLISHED ON DEC 10, 2018 01:46 PM IST
Ishwar Makwana, who hails from Indore in Madhya Pradesh, was arrested by the Goa Police along with two other men from MP in May this year for allegedly raping a 20-year-old woman at a beach in South Goa district.

Prateik Babbar refuses blood test after being booked for rash driving in Goa
By Press Trust of India | Panaji
UPDATED ON OCT 11, 2018 12:50 PM IST
The police wanted his blood sample to check whether the actor, who is in his early 30s, was driving under the influence of alcohol, an official said.
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