Old Goa (Goa): Old Goa police have filed First Information Report against a couple and two more people for allegedly trespassing into the office of lawyer Aires Rodrigues and threatening him.

Rodrigues who is booked for sexual harassment by Anjuna police had filed a complaint against a lady, her husband and two unknown accomplices accusing them of entering into his office, intimidating, threatening and assaulting him.

Old Goa police have filed FIR under sections452, 341,506, 336 read with 34 of Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Adv. Rodrigues has stated that on Monday morning at around  8.30 am  the accused criminally trespassed and barged into his office at Ribandar and unlawfully restrained him and threatened him as to why he had taken up the issue of the alleged sex scandal involving Goa’s Fisheries Minister Vinod Paliencar to which he stated that he had taken up the issue in Public Interest as he had bonafide reason to believe that Minister Vinod Paliencar misusing his position was sexually exploiting vulnerable women.

Adv. Rodrigues has further stated that the video footage of yesterday’s incident clearly evidences the commission of the criminal acts and deeds by the accused.

Adv. Rodrigues has in his complaint also stated that he has a bonafide reason to believe that Fisheries Minister Vinod Paliencar was also a conspirator and mastermind in yesterday’s attack on him as Vinod Paliencar had earlier publicly threatened to unleash anti-social elements unto him at his office in Ribandar.