Panaji: A 27-year-old woman tourist and her instructor were killed after they crashed into a ravine while they were paragliding in North Goa, police said on Sunday. An official said the accident occurred at Keri village on Saturday evening.
Shivani Dable, a resident of Pune, and her instructor, Sumal Nepali (26), a Nepalese national, crashed to death at Keri Plateau around 5 pm, he said. The official said Dable had opted to paraglide with an adventure sports company operating illegally.
As per the complaint, the paraglider plunged into a ravine soon after it took off from a cliff, killing the duo on the spot, he said. A case has been registered at Mandrem police station against company owner Shekhar Raizada under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita for endangering human life.
In a statement, police said the accused, Shekhar Raizada, owner of an adventure sports company, “without obtaining permission from the appropriate authority knowingly allowed his paraglider pilot to conduct the paragliding activities with the tourist, with the knowledge that his act will endanger life…the accused intentionally permitted tourist…and paragliding pilot…without a valid license to carry out paragliding from a height resulting in death”.
Two tourists dead in separate paragliding accidents in Himachal
The Goa incident came hours after two tourists died in two separate paragliding accidents in Kangra and Kullu districts of Himachal Pradesh. The tourists were from Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, police said on Saturday.
At the Indrunag paragliding site near Dharamshala, Bhavsar Khushi from Ahmedabad who was on a tandem flight died as she fell during take-off on Saturday evening. The pilot also fell with her and sustained injuries. The pilot was sent to Tanda Medical College for treatment, ASP Kangra Vir Bahadur said. All aspects are being investigated, he added.
In another incident, a 28-year-old tourist from Tamil Nadu died while the pilot sustained serious injuries while paragliding near the Garsa landing site in Kullu district on Friday evening. The accident happened when one paraglider doing acrobatics accidentally hit another paraglider and one of them fell to the ground.
The accident occurred when they were 100 feet above the ground. While Jayash Ram succumbed to his injuries, pilot Ashwani Kumar sustained serious injuries and was sent to PGI Chandigarh for treatment.
Police said a case under sections 125 (negligent act endangering life of others) and 106 (causing death by negligence) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita have been registered and further investigations are underway.
Earlier on January 7, a tourist from Andhra Pradesh had died while paragliding at Raison, about 20 km from Manali in Kullu district, following which tourism authorities closed the Naga Bagh paragliding site after negligence was found in the preliminary inquiry.
As per preliminary inquiry, the operator was found to be negligent as the flight did not take off from the site identified by the tourism department. The license of the operator was also cancelled. (Agency inputs)
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