Was nabbed in 2008 for overstaying
BY GT REPORTER
PANJIM: Russian national Violetta Gasanova convicted for overstaying, last year by Judicial Magistrate First Class at Mapusa was released from Central Jail, Aguada on July 16.
Violetta has stayed silent ever since she was arrested and booked by Anjuna police in August 2008 and lodged in Aguada jail, until now.
25-year-old Violetta who arrived on a six-months tourist visa before her arrest is now awaiting ‘exit permission’ from the state home department to fly back to her hometown in Moscow, Russia.
She arrived Goa via charter flight along with a group of Russians on August 8, 2007 overstayed on August 4, 2008. The reason for her overstay is not known even as the girl communicates via writing.
“She is in a state of trauma. Although she doesn’t speak, she communicates through writing but whenever she is asked about her overstay she stops replying,” representative of Russian Consul in Goa Advocate Vikram Varma told GT.
The girl was brought to the Anjuna police station after she was found along Calangute beach without her valid visa. Even as police made several attempts to record her statement after her arrest, the she stayed silent.
The Court took cognisance of her mental state during the trial and referred her to the Institute of Psychiatrist and Human Behaviour (IPHB) where she was under treatment for about three-weeks, which went futile.
Violetta was thereafter convicted for overstaying and released on the above said date after the Prisons officials observed her behaviour as satisfactory. Her mother who landed from Moscow took over her daughter’s custody, soon after her release.
“A proper treatment will be provided to her in Moscow and hopefully she comes out of the shock,” Varma stated.
The Russian tourist was booked under sections 3 and 4 of Passport Entry Act, section 7 (3) (iii) of Foreigners Order and section 14 of Foreigners Act, 1946.
