Police cane-charged a group of protestors and detained five of them in Margao city of South Goa Saturday late night after they blocked a national highway demanding arrest of former Goa RSS chief Subhash Velingkar. A senior police officer confirmed that at least five protestors were detained after they refused to clear the road as a part of the protest that began this morning.

More than a dozen cases have been filed against Velingkar for "hurting religious sentiments" through his media statements against St Francis Xavier, the patron saint of the state, whose relics are at the Basilica of Bom Jesus Church, Old Goa. The Bicholim Police on Friday had filed an FIR against Velingkar in the matter.