Panaji: Panaji's Congress MLA, Mayor and former Deputy Mayor were on Saturday booked for molesting a woman during an anti-encroachment drive outside a casino office in the state capital on Friday. Congress MLA Atanasio Monserrate has said that the drive happened in a public space and there was nothing untoward which occurred at the time.

An FIR was registered after a woman, who was protesting the partial demolition of a casino office's facade, filed a complaint against Panaji MLA Atanasio Monserrate, Mayor Uday Madkaikar and former Deputy Mayor Yatin Parekh, accusing them of molestation during the fracas which was playing out on the sidelines of the demolition.