Panaji: A Goa court Sunday remanded swimming coach Surajit Ganguly, arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl training under him, in police custody for six days.
Surajit Ganguly, who was was on the run since the case was registered, was arrested Friday at the Kashmiri Gate area in New Delhi and brought to Goa late Saturday night following which he was taken to Mapusa police station, where the offence was registered against him.
“Sunday morning, he was produced before the judicial magistrate first class at Mapusa for the remand. He has been remanded in six-day police custody,” Deputy Superintendent of Police Gajanan Prabhudesai told this agency. Goa police were earlier granted three-day transit custody of the accused by a Delhi court.
Surajit Ganguly was employed with the Goa Swimming Association when the alleged incident took place in Mapusa.
The girl’s father had approached Rishra police station in Hooghly district of West Bengal against Ganguly, a senior police officer earlier said. The Goa police later got the complaint from their West Bengal counterparts via e-mail and registered an FIR.
After the case was registered, Ganguly travelled to different states to evade arrest. The Goa police then sent teams to different locations to nab him.
Ganguly has been under the Indian Penal Code Section 506 (criminal intimidation) and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the Goa Children’s Act.
PTI