{"id":17432,"date":"2026-06-06T08:07:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/goa-student-23-who-was-booked-for-littering-after-viral-clip-kills-self-goa-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T08:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:37:55","slug":"goa-student-23-who-was-booked-for-littering-after-viral-clip-kills-self-goa-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/goa-student-23-who-was-booked-for-littering-after-viral-clip-kills-self-goa-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Goa student, 23, who was booked for littering after viral clip, kills self | Goa News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131543291,imgsize-170282,width-400,height-225,resizemode-72\/ai-generated-image-used-for-representational-purpose.jpg\" alt=\"Goa student, 23, who was booked for littering after viral clip, kills self\" title=\"AI-generated image used for representational purpose.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"AI-generated image used for representational purpose.\">AI-generated image used for representational purpose.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>PANAJI: A 23-year-old college student from Goa\u2019s Mapusa allegedly shot himself dead Friday, hours after a purported video of him throwing garbage along a roadside went viral and resulted in an FIR.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>Chief minister <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/pramod-sawant\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Pramod Sawant<\/a> said he would order an inquiry into the death of Samuel de Braganca, who lived with his mother and two sisters and had just completed second year of graduation.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>A citizen recorded the video of Braganca allegedly dumping the garbage on Thursday. In the video, the citizen was seen requesting him to remove the garbage, telling him he would delete the clip if he did so.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>Mapusa SP Salim Shaikh said police took note of the video and received a complaint about the garbage, leading to the FIR under Goa Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Control) Act. <!-- -->The FIR states that Braganca \u201cknowingly, negligently, and unlawfully\u201d littered a public place, creating nuisance and health hazards, besides endangering public safety and sanitation.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>\u201cAs per the Act, an accused usually has to pay fines. There is also a provision for imprisonment. We called him (Braganca) to the police station. He was served notice and allowed to go home,\u201d said Shaikh.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Braganca\u2019s mother and one of his sisters also came to the police station and later left together, the SP added.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>Around 1.30am on Friday, the cops got a call about firing in the family\u2019s home. Cops went to Braganca\u2019s home and found he had shot himself in the bathroom, Shaikh said. A probe is on to trace the gun\u2019s source.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/goa\/goa-student-23-who-was-booked-for-littering-after-viral-clip-kills-self\/articleshow\/131543235.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI-generated image used for representational purpose. PANAJI: A 23-year-old college student from Goa\u2019s Mapusa allegedly shot himself dead Friday, hours after a purported video of him throwing garbage along a roadside went viral and resulted in an FIR.Chief minister Pramod Sawant said he would order an inquiry into the death of Samuel de Braganca, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}