Goa police not reigning in goons, drug peddlers and pimps: attack on Vasai tourists including women, children proves police hand-in-glove with thugs says Flynn Remedios
Panaji: It took a brutal attack on tourists including women and children by history-sheeters and goondas to wake up Goa CM Manohar Parrikar.
While we have been crying hoarse about the connivance of police with criminals in Goa, no Goa politician, neither from the ruling party or its allies, nor the Opposition has spoken up for the last 20 days, after a senior journalist from Mumbai, Flynn Remedios was allegedly attacked by drug peddlers while he was tracking the gang for a news story.
Finally CM Parrikar admitted that “this (attack on tourists from Vasai) incident has happened in connivance with some on the police force and because of their casualness.”
According to a Times of India report, Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar cracked the whip and directed the police to submit a list of history-sheeters in the state within a week. “Police should keep a watch on such history-sheeters and if any criminal out on bail is involved in a second offence, police should move for cancellation of bail,” Parrikar told TOI. “I will hold the inspectors concerned responsible if these things happen. We have built a proper place for all goondas at Colvale jail. They should land there. This incident has happened in connivance with some on the police force and because of their casualness,” Parrikar said.
The four goons who attacked 50-odd Mumbai tourists, including women and children, with swords, choppers and knives on Wednesday had a criminal background and were out on bail.
The main accused, Lawerence Dias, was convicted for raping a 32-year-old British national in 2008, while the other two—Vishal Golatkar and Suraj Shetye—were arrested for kidnapping, dacoity and assault in 2016.
“Dias, a former forest department employee, was convicted and sentenced to seven years in jail in 2014. He was at central jail Aguada, but went in appeal and was out on bail,” North Goa superintendent of police Kartik Kashyap told TOI. “The others have been chargesheeted in recent cases. They are also out on bail.”
According to an IndiaNewsInfo.com report, internal high-level police sources claim, the Goa police are hesitant to book an inter-state prostitution and drug trafficking kingpin named Rocky alias Shravan Singh, operating a huge drugs business in the coastal state of Goa, thanks to the political patronage his gang enjoys. The kingpin is said to be very close to two former cabinet ministers in Goa and openly boasts of his friendship with Cabinet Ministers of Goa, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan says Flynn Remedios.
The drug peddler operating primarily in Jaipur and Jodhpur who runs an inter-state drug trafficking racket in Rajasthan with business running annually into several hundred crores, is also the kingpin and mastermind behind all the online escorts, call girl and flesh trade rackets run via the internet, Facebook, Twitter and other social media and online platforms in Goa – both North and South Goa coastal belts.
