Goa: MP techie’s body surfaces after 18 days of drowning

Times of India | 3 days ago | 23-09-2022 | 11:25 am

Goa: MP techie’s body surfaces after 18 days of drowning

PONDA: The body of Madhya Pradesh techie Arprit Shukla resurfaced after 18 days on Thursday. The 31-year-old software engineer from Bhopal had drowned in Dudhsagar river on September 5 after he slipped off the waterfalls. The body was stuck in the roots of a tree on the banks 7km from the falls. Collem PI Sanjay Dalvi said the victim’s brother who was in Goa to join the search operation has identified the body. It has been preserved at the GMC mortuary for an autopsy likely to be conducted on Friday. Shukla had visited Dudhsagar waterfalls on the evening of September 5 with his wife and some friends. He was suspected to have fallen into the stream in an attempt to get a picture of the waterfalls and went missing. A search operation was launched immediately after.

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Times of India | 3 days ago | 23-09-2022 | 11:06 am
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PANAJI: A Ponda court has pulled up the police for seeking condonation in delay in filing charges and citing excuses of Covid-19 and bandobast duties. "Several stereotype applications for condoning the delay are filed by the investigating officers assigning similar reasons of being deployed on bandobast duties and other duties," stated Judicial Magistrate First Class, Ponda, Audi Shanoor. "I find that police officers have to discharge their duties with utmost diligence and such casual and cavalier approach cannot be entertained," the court added. In the latest case, the offence of rash driving took place on April 23, 2019, and the PI filed an application seeking condonation in delay in filing the chargesheet, stating that the head constable who is now a PSI was deployed for bandobast duty and Covid-19 duty. The delay, if calculated, is for over one year, the court found. "Perusal of the chargesheet shows that the investigation was completed in 2019. The Covid-19 pandemic started in March 2020 and the investigating officer had sufficient time to file the chargesheet but he has failed to do so," the court stated. The investigating officer has not sufficiently explained the delay of such a long period and stated that the application has been filed "in an utmost casual and cavalier manner without assigning any proper justification for the delay caused and without mentioning the exact number of days of delay caused in filing the chargesheet", the court stated. It also pointed out that the officer failed to remain present, "which shows his lack of diligence to proceed with the matter". The investigating officer lodged an FIR against a 22-year-old barber who lost three fingers in an accident case. The court found that sufficient cause was not shown by the investigating officer to condone the delay in filing the chargesheet. As per Section 468 of the CrPC, the chargesheet had to be filed within a year of the offence and in the present case it had to be filed by April 22, 2020, but the application before the court seeking condonation in delay was dated December 13, 2021. Rash driving under Section 279 of IPC provides for simple imprisonment for a term extending up to six months or a fine which may extend to Rs 1,000, or both. The court dismissed the police application.

Casual and cavalier approach by cops can’t be entertained: Ponda court
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