<p>The expose was telecast on local TV news channels Tuesday night and published in the newspapers Wednesday. The murder accused was seen eating ice cream with his police escorts during a visit to a hospital. <br /><br />The incident came within hours of another under-trial, who had last year allegedly taken a contract to kill Home Minister Ravi Naik, giving his police escorts the slip while being ferried to a hospital for health reasons. <br /><br />The 'ice cream expose' as the local media has called it here, shows murder accused Balesh Desai, a first cousin of former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minister Ramrao Dessai, digging into a slab of ice cream along with his three police escorts Suraj Gaonkar, Pradip Patil and Shivanand Budhanoor. <br /><br />Desai was arrested in 2007 for allegedly murdering his driver Samir Mapari and dumping his body in a nearby water body in south Goa. <br /><br />Speaking to reporters here Wednesday, Deputy Superintendent of Police (escort cell) Nandakishore Raikar said action would be taken against the three policemen. <br /><br />"Eating ice cream when you are being taken for a medical check up is a serious offence. <br /><br />And our constables joining them in the act, is even worse. We will take strong action against the three," Raikar said. <br /><br />At 6.15 p.m. Tuesday another undertrial Michael Fernandes, who the police had <br />sensationally claimed had been offered a contract to kill minister Naik, escaped from his escorts while being ferried in a jeep from his judicial lock up to a local hospital. <br /><br />The incident occurred near the Chicalim junction 30 km from here, when Michael, who is in judicial custody at the Sada sub jail, was being ferried to a hospital near Panaji. <br /><br />"We were taking him to the hospital, when he escaped. He jumped from the prison van and made off on a motorcycle which was tailing the prison vehicle," a police officer had said. <br /><br />Police have launched a manhunt to nab Michael.</p>
<p>The expose was telecast on local TV news channels Tuesday night and published in the newspapers Wednesday. The murder accused was seen eating ice cream with his police escorts during a visit to a hospital. <br /><br />The incident came within hours of another under-trial, who had last year allegedly taken a contract to kill Home Minister Ravi Naik, giving his police escorts the slip while being ferried to a hospital for health reasons. <br /><br />The 'ice cream expose' as the local media has called it here, shows murder accused Balesh Desai, a first cousin of former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minister Ramrao Dessai, digging into a slab of ice cream along with his three police escorts Suraj Gaonkar, Pradip Patil and Shivanand Budhanoor. <br /><br />Desai was arrested in 2007 for allegedly murdering his driver Samir Mapari and dumping his body in a nearby water body in south Goa. <br /><br />Speaking to reporters here Wednesday, Deputy Superintendent of Police (escort cell) Nandakishore Raikar said action would be taken against the three policemen. <br /><br />"Eating ice cream when you are being taken for a medical check up is a serious offence. <br /><br />And our constables joining them in the act, is even worse. We will take strong action against the three," Raikar said. <br /><br />At 6.15 p.m. Tuesday another undertrial Michael Fernandes, who the police had <br />sensationally claimed had been offered a contract to kill minister Naik, escaped from his escorts while being ferried in a jeep from his judicial lock up to a local hospital. <br /><br />The incident occurred near the Chicalim junction 30 km from here, when Michael, who is in judicial custody at the Sada sub jail, was being ferried to a hospital near Panaji. <br /><br />"We were taking him to the hospital, when he escaped. He jumped from the prison van and made off on a motorcycle which was tailing the prison vehicle," a police officer had said. <br /><br />Police have launched a manhunt to nab Michael.</p>