DONA PAULA, Nov. 8 -- AUGUSTO RODRIGUES

Brutal violence to claim their land is sending shivers down the spines of people after the duo of father and son were at receiving end of logs, fists and kicks at Chinvar in Anjuna.

32-year-old Merchant Navy Officer Mevilton and his father, Timmy Theodore, 62 were brutally assaulted by 20 unknown goons on Thursday over a supposed property dispute, which has several strands of claims and counter-claims.

When the traumatised victims, who escaped deaths at the hands of 20-odd criminals, met OHeraldo in the room of the private hospital where the two were shifted from GMC, fear was writ large on the faces of Mevilton Timmy Theodore and his wife.

The incident occurred when he and his son had come from...