ASI V.K.Yerram of CID Mapusa issues a 'Memo' to his three 'Hawaldar' insubordinating subordinates; the memo gets 'leaked' and Yerram gets suspended.NO ONE IS KILLED IN THIS PROCESS.Only the names of some politicians and political parties are involved. There are investigations by his 'superiors', there is a 'departmental enquiry' and there is an enquiry by the Election Commission.
A Traffic Policeman 'orders' a Traffic Constable to catch/apprehend and detain a ten year old 'street kid' who is walking in the street. The constable and four Margao Municipal Council workers catch and 'load' him onto the rear of a mini truck and transport him to the Police Station for a 'medical check-up'. The boy jumps out and attempts to escape. He is chased and killed [by accident or otherwise]. THE BOY IS DEAD. On the second-last day of the Financial Year, his account on this Earth is prematurely closed. The Superintendent of Police justifies the action as an act of 'good faith' [ two words that protect a Government employee in due discharge of his 'duties in the designated post'.] even though the "duties" of the 'Traffic Police' do not extend to preventive detention or to any action on non-traffic offences. If the traffic police man was doing his 'civic duty', he does not have the protection of law for his bonafide or malafide action by claim of 'good faith'. If such a protection is available to a citizen[ government employee or otherwise], can we load a drunk cop in a garbage truck and take him to a hospital for a check-up or unload him at the traffic police post? Can we chase a pretty LDC,UDC or steno in a government office because she has a bottle/tube of Erazex or some other 'white ink' in her hand? Would it be justification to push her under a truck or just chase her till she 'accidentally' falls under a speeding truck,bus or other vehicle or falls in the Mandovi? Would the 'white ink' help us to obliterate our action in the police records? If the answer is NO, why are the traffic cops and the MMC workers suspended and FIRs lodged against them a week after the Murder of the innocent boy. Is it a crime to be poor, to be orphaned, to be a street child? What are the Goa Police, Directorate of Prosecution, Home Department and the Home Minister trying to tell us? What are we doing? Viva Goa. Miguel --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.543 / Virus Database: 337 - Release Date: 11/21/2003 ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
