Babush’s son finally turns himself in

Babush’s son finally turns himself in
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Panaji: Goa education minister Atanasio Monserrate’s son Rohit was taken into custody after he surrendered at about 12.40 pm on Tuesday and his father announced he would not move his bail until the police finished their investigation.
Rohit, accused of sexually abusing and raping a 14-yearold German girl, was arrested after he failed to satisfy the police with his answers during a questioning session that lasted about two and a half hours. He was later taken for a medical check up and then brought back to Calangute police station.
“My son is innocent and he has surrendered to prove his innocence,” the minister said after his son turned himself in. The 21-year-old Rohit, who looked calm and composed, arrived at the police station in a white car with a red beacon accompanied by his father and lawyers.
Sources close to the Monserrates said the legal team was present to ensure the cops did not pick up Rohit outside the police station and show it as an arrest instead of a surrender.
Later at 6.30 pm, a police team from Calangute along with fingerprint experts arrived at Monserrate’s Taleigao residence. The minister said they came to recover the black Audi car in which, according to the minor girl’s statement, Rohit had sex with her. “The police are doing their duty and let them do it,” Monserrate said.
Sources said the fingerprint experts thoroughly searched the car for almost two and an half hours.
As reported by TOI, Monserrate had written to the Calangute police on Monday night requesting them to permit him to produce his son Rohit by Tuesday noon. Monserrate claimed he was not in touch with Rohit, who had gone missing ever since the police booked him for rape on October 14. The arrest had been deferred till the girl gave her statement and underwent a medical examination.
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Panaji: Education minister Atanasio Monserrate’s son Rohit, who had gone missing after the police booked him for the rape of a minor German girl on October 14, gave his statement to the cops on November 1, hours before the alleged deposed before a local court. He admitted knowing the girl but denied raping her, sources said.
Following the girl’s deposition on Saturday and her medical examination on Sunday, the police had raided Monserrate’s houses in Miramar and Taleigao as Rohit failed to honour summons asking him to present himself at Calangute police station. Summons were later served on the minister also asking him to produce his son before the police.
Meanwhile, Aires Rodrigues, counsel for the girl’s mother, has demanded that the minor’s statement be recorded again as she did not
state in her statement before the magistrate all that she had told him.
“We have requested the police to take the statement of the girl again as she has not given complete information. She has only named Rohit Monserrate but there are also others involved in the offence whom she has not named,” said Rodrigues.

November 05,2008, The Times of India, Goa edition