Dear John, This is very serious issue. Your message is uploaded on bmm blog and the links is
http://bharatmukti.blogspot.in/2015/02/is-goa-police-in-quepem-promoting.html Warmest regards and solidarity, Seby On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 5:54 AM, JOAO FERNANDES <[email protected]> wrote: > Are the Quepem Police promoting Atrocities on the Tribals? > That to prevent the atrocities on the Tribals and for the protection of > Tribals there is a act called the Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe ( > Prevention of Atrocities ) Act 1989. > Section 3 of the said act gives details as to what acts of a Non Tribal on > a Tribal amounts to atrocities. > Rule 3 of the Schedule Castes and the Schedule Tribes (prevention of > Atrocities ) Rules 1995 laid down the precautionary measures the state has > to take in preventing atrocities on the Tribals. > That from the month of December 2014 to February 2015 three incidents of > Atrocities on Tribal have been taken place and which has been reported to > the Quepem police station. That in non of the cases the Quepem police > have taken effective action against the culprit but harassed the > complainants. > In the First case one Lourence Oliveira of Mulas Paroda have filed a > complaint against a non Tribal on 31/12/2014 stating that his paddy field > and plantation existing in his tenanted property under survey No.129/1 of > Mulem village of Salcete taluka have been destroyed. The Quepem police did > not initiated action against the culprit. On the contrary coerced said > Lourence Oliveira to settle the matter which is against his wishes and to > that effect he has filed a complaint before the concerned authorities. > In the Second case one Smt. Sebastiana Carvalho of Bomdamol Quepem had > filed a complaint against one Kaviraj Karmali on 31/1/2015 for partly > demolishing her house constructed by her in her plot for which she has paid > an amount of Rs.1,85,000/- to one Piety Fernandes who was the developer for > the family of Kaviraj karmali. That said piety is shown as consenting party > in the sale deed executed by the family of Kaviraj karmali. That inspite of > taking the law into his own hand of demolishing the house the police yet to > take effective action against said Kaviraj karmali on the other hand when > the police called said Sebastiana Carvalho for inquiry the police > instructed said Sebastiana Carvalho to demolish her house and even > threatened her of dire consequences. But when said Sebastiana did not > demolish the same said Kaviraj karmali Bulldozed the remaining portion of > the said house on 20/2/2015. This shows the Quepem police are hands in > gloves in demolishing > the house of Said Sebastiana Carvalho. > In the third case one Rosario Menezes resident of Gonvol Cotombi > Quepem-Goa who is the tenant of a property situated at Cotombi, cultivated > his paddy field for the viogon season on 24/1/2015. That on 14/2/2015 two > member of the Dessai community with the help of Power tiller damaged the > entire crop Inspite of filing complaint under Tribal Atrocities act the > Quepem police yet to take effective action against the culprit. > The above instances shows that the Quepem police headed by P.I. Pravin > Gawas under the supervision of Dy-SP Quepem instead of preventing > atrocities on tribals are instrumental in committing/promoting atrocities > on the Triblas, which is not a healthy sign. > >
