from Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji (GA)
Panaji, Oct 16: Notwithstanding the political activities surrounding the alleged rape case, State police on Thursday October 16 issued lookout notice against Rohit, a 21-year-old son of Goa's education minister Atanasio Monserratte.
"The process of lookout notice is already on and by now the notice may have been already issued," Superintendent of Police (North) Bosco George told reporters at district police headquarters.
Rohit is booked for raping, outraging modesty, abetting crime and sending obscene messages to German minor girl. Monserratte is charged of abetting the crime as cell phone used by Rohit is in Minister's name.
The issuance of look-out notice means that Rohit would not be able to leave the country.
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Police have flashed wireless messages to all the airports, ports and borders across the country not to allow Rohit leave the country.
Reacting to the allegations that rape case is booked without medically examining the girl, George said that the police have sufficient evidence to book him. "Her statement is not the only evidence we were banking on," he said.
George stated that the police had seized the mobile phone as well as the SIM card on which the messages were received and they have been sent for forensic investigation. "We have also attached the passport, which proves that her age is indeed 14," he added.
While police are yet to get girl medically examined or take her statement, police recorded mother's statement on Thursday.
Talking to the media, the mother said that she spent last evening with her daughter watching movie called Babylon AD, which is likely to help girl psychologically to come forward and depose before police.
The mother said that although her lawyer is in the hospital after being attacked by hooligans, she is not feeling insecure. "I have nothing to say.. I have said everything in my statement," she said.
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