Goa police arrested a taxi driver on the charges of eve-teasing and threatening two Russian girls after they complained that the accused along with two others tried to physically assault them at Anjuna beach.
The girls complained that the driver Pramod Shirodkar took them to an isolated place along the beach in the wee hours of December 25 and tried to assault them. The girls jumped off his car and took shelter in the woods for almost five hours before the sunrise.
The girls said that the taxi driver along with two other motorcycle-borne men chased them for almost half an hour before losing their sight in the jungle.
The driver has been booked under Sections 509, 323 and 506 of the Indian penal code (IPC) for eve-teasing, causing hurt and threatening, police said without giving details about two others accused in the case.
"We are still investigating. How can we divulge everything at this juncture?" said a senior police officer.
The police nabbed Shirodkar after tracking down his address from the taxi number provided by the victims.
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