------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Documented by Goa Desc Resource Centre Ph:2252660 Website: www.goadesc.org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Press Clippings on the web: http://www.goadesc.org/mem/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------- Irate mob beats rapist to death ---------------------------------------- A man who raped a middle-aged woman, moments after a futile bid to rape a teenaged school girl, was brutally beaten by an irate mob at Sakral-Torsem on Tuesday evening.
Pernem police said Hema Reddy (35) of Gadag-Karnataka, presently employed as a cook at a bar and restaurant along the National Highway at Torsem, died while being shifted to the Goa Medical College Hospital at Bambolim.
The incident took place at Bhavani Tem jungle at Sakral at about 3 pm on Tuesday, when a 14-year-old school girl was returning home from school. Reddy was in an inebriated State, when he noticed the girl walking towards her house.
He waylaid the girl at a lonely spot and forcefully took her to a nearby cashew farm, where he tried to rape her.The girl, however, broke free and ran towards her house.
The accused then noticed a 52-year-old woman, walking alone towards the cashew farm. He caught hold of the woman, assaulted her and then dragged her to a bush, where he allegedly raped the woman.
Another woman happened to notice the victim in the bushes and around that time the petrified girl narrated her story to villagers. A huge crowd rushed to the scene of offence in search of the accused and found Hema, who had fallen in a pit when he lost balance while returning from the farm.
The irate mob caught hold of Reddy and brutally attacked him, before handing him over to the police. Reddy was moved to the Government Primary Health Centre at Tuyem and was later shifted o the GMC hospital, where he died of extensive injuries.
The police recorded the statement of the woman and added that medical reports at the Goa Medical College Hospital at Bambolim on Wednesday confirmed that the woman was raped.
Pernem police has registered a case under sections 376 and 304 IPC and is investigating the case. ------------------------------------ HERALD 25/3/04 page 1 -------------------------------------
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