Eleven arrested for pickpocketing during Manohar Parrikar’s funeral 

“They had specifically come to Panaji because of the major event in order to commit theft,” Naik told reporters here. The police are still looking at the number of people who attended the funeral, which had three pit stops, at the BJP headquarters, Kala Academy, and Miramar beach.

Most of those who have reported crime were standing in the queue for offering their condolences to their leader.

In one instance, the accused was stopped by the crowd and the police arrested him at Kala Academy when he tried to run away with a gold chain of a lady in the queue. The incident is believed to have happened just around the time the police started to sanitise the perimeter for the arrival of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other dignitaries.