Colva: Two police officers about the task of ‘Nakabandi’ on Jalan Margao-Colva were killed when a car was quickly driven by Craig Rodrigues, who allegedly drunk, ran over them on Saturday night.
Constable Shailesh Gaonkar, 30, from Balli-Quepem and attached to the Colva Police Station, died in place, while Indian reserve battalion, Vishwas Deykar, 30, exhaled to the hospital.
Colva Pi Melson Colaco said that at 12:10 a.m., the car driven by Rodrigues, 31, crashed into the ‘Nakabandi’ barricade, crashing into the police and hitting their two-wheeled.
The car then crashed into a stationary car before turning the turtle.
The impact of high-speed collisions in such a way that the debris of one of the two wheels was thrown into a parked car.
The Rodrigues car was also badly damaged, police said.
Police sources say that Rodrigues and other friends (in different cars) are driving when they lose control before the barricade.
“Defendant was drunk, and we had sent a blood sample for testing,” Colaco said.
Rodrigues was arrested for guilty murders who did not amount to murder and rash and negligence.
The state government will pay Ex-Gratia Rs 1 Crore to the deceased family, said DGP I D Shukla.
CM Pramod Sawant has also offered LDC or PSI position to Kin next to the grieving family, Shukla said, who attended the last ritual of Constable.
In another accident in the early Navy on Monday morning, the couple was killed in an accident after four-wheeled vehicles crashed into their two-wheeled vehicles.
Relatives and locals refuse to surrender the body to post-mortem, and block the road.