Daijiworld Media Network – Moodbidri (SP)

Moodbidri, Mar 16: In an incident that occurred here recently, president of Hosabettu gram panchayat here, reportedly kept the village accountant of Hosabettu village, Sadanand Acharya, three village assistants in the office and a visitor to the village accountant’s office in illegal confinement by locking the door from outside, on Thursday March 11. It is gathered that he turned livid at the refusal of the village accountant to issue residential certificate to a woman, who was not the resident of Hosabettu.

On Saturday, on a complaint filed by Mangalore tahsildar, Ravindra Nayak, the Moodbidri police have registered a case against Valerian Cutinha, Hosabettu gram panchayat president, on charges of obstructing government employees from discharging their duties, and keeping them in illegal confinement. It is said that Cutinha had asked the village accountant on Thursday, to issue a residential certificate of Hosabettu village to a woman from Derebail village, to which the village accountant refused.

Angered by this refusal, the president closed the doors of the office from outside, and stopped the village accountant, three village assistants, Umesh, Sheena and Bhoja in addition to Leo Walter Nazareth, who had visited the office on some work, from coming out.