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Gang-rape of Swede: Goan police arrest one

By Our Staff Reporter

PANAJI, JAN 31. The Goa police have arrested one person on charges of raping a Swede girl last week at the Anjuna-Vagator beach in North Goa. They are on the look out for two others. The incident had sent shock waves among the tourists visiting the "Paradise on the Earth."

Police gave the name of the arrested person as Marlin Chandrappa.

The Superintendent of Police, North Goa, D.P. Verma, told reporters here today that one of the associates of the accused, Palaniswamy, was a jail-breaker. After his escape, he was allegedly working at Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh and came back to Goa recently.

The officer released a picture of Palaniswamy and announced a reward of Rs. 5,000 to those providing information leading to his arrest. Police are also on the look out for another accused, Mahesh.

The 22-year-old Swede national was gang-raped on the Vagator hillock on January 25 at knife-point. Initially they threatened her and demanded money from her.

She said that a person, who accompanied the duo, later came back and freed her. She met a British national on way back and with his help lodged the police complaint. The gang members were speaking some "Indian language" as she could not differentiate between Konkani and Hindi.

Police had registered a case under Sections 363, 376, read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code against the accused.

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