Overview
- Officers have been directed to detain anyone found photographing or forcing selfies with tourists without consent as part of a statewide beach crackdown.
- Police reported intensified patrols along the North Goa coastal belt with orders to intervene immediately on complaints rather than issue warnings.
- Two male tourists from Tamil Nadu were detained at Baga beach on Friday under section 170 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, with preventive arrest of up to 24 hours cited by a senior officer.
- In a separate case, an accused identified as Alisto Lobo was booked for filming a foreign tourist at Calangute and circulating the video, with an FIR under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 79 and 356(2).
- Earlier in the week, Calangute police registered a case against Odisha tourists Akash Minaz and Dhayan Tappo for allegedly forcing photos and touching a Russian woman on the beach.