Panaji: Goa police arrested a taxi driver on
the charges of eve-teasing and threatening two Russian girls
after they complained that the accused along with two others
tried to physically assault them at Anjuna beach.
The girls complained that the driver Pramod Shirodkar
took them to an isolated place along the beach in the wee
hours of December 25 and tried to assault them. The girls
jumped off his car and took shelter in the woods for almost
five hours before the sunrise.
The girls said that the taxi driver along with two other
motorcycle-borne men chased them for almost half an hour
before losing their sight in the jungle.
The driver has been booked under Sections 509, 323 and
506 of the Indian penal code (IPC) for eve-teasing, causing
hurt and threatening, police said without giving details about
two others accused in the case.
"We are still investigating. How can we divulge
everything at this juncture?" said a senior police officer.
The police nabbed Shirodkar after tracking down his
address from the taxi number provided by the victims.
PTI
First Published: Saturday, December 26, 2009, 13:58