NT Reporter
Mapusa
The family of the two accused in the recent Mapusa pay parking assault case has filed a counter-complaint against seven to eight unknown pay parking staff, alleging wrongful restraint, assault, and threats, and have demanded registration of an FIR.
Earlier, the Mapusa police had arrested four youths – Aniket Shirodkar, Rupsai Arondekar, Bhuvan Govekar, and Saish Govekar – on charges of attempted murder following the August 27 incident at a private complex where pay parking fees were being collected.
The dispute over parking escalated into an assault on two parking staff.
In the counter-complaint, Pravina Shirodkar, Aniket’s mother, has stared her son and nephew Arondekar had gone to Mapusa on a two-wheeler to buy thermocol for Ganesh decoration. She has alleged that during the altercation, three to four unknown pay-parking collectors joined the two staff members and assaulted them with slaps, fist blows to the face, and kicks and punches to the stomach.
“There was no rivalry between my son and an unknown pay parking collector who assaulted, abused, wrongfully confined, and threatened my son and nephew with dire consequences,” she has added
As per the complaint, Arondekar managed to escape and ran towards a nearby vegetable market. Attempts to contact police helplines 100 and 112 allegedly went unanswered.
Pravina has added that when Bhuvan and Saish arrived to rescue the duo, they too were assaulted. She has demanded that an FIR be registered against seven to eight unknown persons, some of whom are pay parking collectors, and the matter be investigated thoroughly.
