Massive search to track down rape tainted swimming coach 

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Mapusa: Goa police have launched search operation to track down disgraced swimming coach Surajit Ganguly who has been booked for raping a minor girl in the coastal state. 

“We have launched search operation to track down the accused. Last we know is that he had left for Bhopal,” Deputy superintendent of police Gajanan Prabhudesai said. 

He said that the police have formed different teams to arrest the coach. 

A case of rape and criminal intimidation as well as for offences under the POCSO Act was registered against a swimming coach by Goa Police Thursday.

Ganguly, a coach employed with the Goa Swimming Association (GSA), is accused of molesting a 15-year-old girl who was training under him.

A purported video of the incident went viral on social media, prompting Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju to promise stringent action.

The GSA sacked the coach earlier Thursday.

A case under IPC sections 376 (rape), 354 (molestation) and 506 (criminal intimidation), as well as under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) and Goa Children’s Act was registered against Ganguly who is yet untraceable, said inspector Kapil Nayak of Mapusa police station in Goa.

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