Panaji Women's Police Station on Thursday booked Blosson Britto and Martina Da Costa, who are respectively the sister and cousin sister of accused Porvorim-based tuition teacher Haber Vaz (45) in the case of alleged ill-treatment and abuse of a five-year-old girl child.
PANAJI
While Vaz has previously moved an application seeking anticipatory bail before the Goa Children's Court, her two sisters have also sought anticipatory bail after they were charged.
In addition to these three accused, the police have earlier booked the married couple, who left behind their five-year-old girl with Vaz as they moved to United Kingdom for work.
Vaz, a married woman with children, is not related to the victim girl by blood and has been accused of physically abusing the girl left under her care.
Women's Police were informed that a child has been residing since September 2016 with one lady in Porvorim, who is not related to her by blood. The child's parents left for United Kingdom for employment.
The married couple, who left the girl behind as they moved to the UK, are reportedly the adoptive parents of the child. However, owing to certain irregularities in the adoption papers and other related documents, the couple could not take the girl with them to the UK.
The three accused have been booked for voluntarily causing hurt, psychological and physical abuse, emotional maltreatment, neglect, cruelty towards the child and for residing with or keeping with oneself the child not related by blood without the prior written permission of the Women and Child Development Director. The FIR has been booked under Section 323 of IPC, Section 8 (9) and 8 (2) read with 2 (m) (i) of Goa Children's Act and Section 75 of Juvenile Justice Act.
