Panaji: After three days of panic buying across the state, Police was forced to deploy two battalions of CRPF to take control over the situation. 

CRPF were deployed in Goa to control shoppers crowding outside grocery stores, CM Pramod Sawan says 240 personnel of the central paramilitary force were picketed in key populated areas and will be given a free hand to enforce the lockdown.

Videos of CRPF personnel beating up people on the streets on Sunday and instructing them to undergo corporal punishment like frog-jumping have already gone viral.

For the last two days, the police force has been baton-charging people outside grocery stores in various parts of the state including Mapusa, Vasco, etc, for panic buying and forgetting social distancing norms.

Grocery stores in Mapusa town and in some nearby areas went out of stock, forcing local residents to flock to one grocery selling outlet which further fuelled panic.