Former Ponda MLA Lavoo Mamledar, 68, died in Belagavi, on Saturday. Police have arrested autorickshaw driver Amirsuhil Sanadi, 26, and sent him to Hindalaga Central Jail. His body was transported to Goa late on Saturday, after a postmortem at the civil hospital. The funeral will be held at the family’s crematorium in Durgabhat-Ponda on Sunday at 12.30pm. He represented the Ponda constituency from 2012 to 2017. He was elected MLA on MGP ticket in 2012. The assault was captured on CCTV in the area. The body will be preserved at the mortuary of Ponda Sub-District Hospital on Saturday night, sources said. The former MLA was a regular customer at Srinivas lodge, in Khade Bazaar area, where he was also known as ‘Lavoo’ He was declared dead in the reception area of the lodge, police said.
