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Goa government soft on drug mafia: Congress

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congress-symbol1Panaji:  The Congress on Saturday alleged that the Goa government was going soft on the state’s drug mafia, a day after the BJP-led coalition conceded that no action has been taken on the findings of an assembly panel on police-politician-drug mafia nexus.

“The BJP, while in opposition, created a big noise over alleged police-politician-drug mafia nexus. After coming to power, then chief minister Manohar Parrikar appointed a house committee to investigate the same case and now the government says they have not investigated its findings. There is something fishy here,” Congress general secretary Durgadas Kamat said in a statement here on Saturday.

During the budget session of the assembly which concluded on Friday, Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar, in a written reply to a query raised by Congress member Digambar Kamat, had cited a technical glitch while explaining the government’s inability to probe the nexus.

He had said that the report was transferred to the anti-corruption branch, under the Directorate of Vigilance in September 2015 to conduct a probe.

“However, no investigation was conducted by anti-corruption in the matter, since the same was beyond the scope of the anti-corruption branch,” Parsekar said.

The report, authored by a team of legislators headed by Nuvem MLA Francisco Pacheco of the Goa Vikas Party, was tabled in the assembly in 2013. It indicted Ravi Naik, home minister in the then Congress-led coalition government and his son Roy for their alleged links to the Israeli drug mafia operating in Goa.

The report had also called former DGP Kishen Kumar the “kingpin” for providing police protection to the drug mafia.

Kamat alleged that the government, by not probing the nexus and the evidence listed in the report, was abetting the drug mafia.

“We would like to ask the government why was a drug-related matter sent to the anti-corruption bureau and not to the anti-narcotics cell. It is quite evident now that there is a clear match-fixing by the BJP leaders with those involved in the drug trade,” the Congress leader alleged.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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May 5, 2022

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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