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The Rape of Goa - A photo documentary
by
Rajan P. Parrikar
Venue: Menezes Braganza Art Gallery, Panjim, May 21-24, 2008
http://www.parrikar.org/misc/doc-notice.pdf
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Dear Floriano,
One cannot change one's Fate: it is a fait accompli !!
The lady and her son on the scooter near Ashwin Garage, Porvorim, were lucky
to escape with bruises. Fatima D'Sa is also lucky to have her garage
advertised. You are no less lucky: 1.Your letter was published as a STAR letter
in a newspaper. This is enough to make any person's chest to swell as much, if
not more than, a child with a Star on his home work book and 2. A much CCed
letter addressed to an agency other than the Goanet was posted on the Net
...along with the untrimmed referal post, to boot!!
The Interceptor car No. 4 (GA-01-1380) that you are referring to must be the
one with the number plate reading GA-01-G-1380. The 'G' in the string indicates
that it is a Government vehicle.
Helmetless riding and belt-less driving is all the cops are interested in to
collect the moolah for Government of self. They cannot see trucks laden with 16
tonnes of ore instead of 10 tonnes limit ...though there are no less than two
thousand overladen trucks on the roads each day ...each making 2 to5 trips a
day. They cannot see the trucks and buses that belch sooty smoke or ask for a
PUC. They cannot see the speeding buses, specially the city buses in Panaji and
Margao ....making up the time they took to crawl out of the bus-stand.
Pandurang Madkaikar was plain unlucky. He tries to control the speed instead of
speeding the cash flow.
Mog asundi.
Miguel
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 15:40:20 +0530
From: "floriano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Things that should not happen ....happened - Part II
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Sir,
Thank you for publishing the above report on your Herald edition of
date as a 'Star Letter'
After reading the star letter, one Ms. Lourdes Vaz from Porvorim took
the trouble to contact your office to get my phone contact number. She
had a very interesting but a sad story to relate which is concerning
the Interceptor No.4 - GA -01-1380.
This is supposed to have happened on the morning of 21st, May . 2008 at
the very spot where the incident that I have reported earlier took place
with the same interceptor No.4 (GA-01-1380) parked at the same location
at Porvorim.
It is believed that Ms Vaz was on her two wheeler proceeding home
(behind Ashwin Garage) with her 5 year old son. At the same time, GDO 524,
driven by a relatively old man was proceeding towards Panjim. The moment
GDO-524 saw the interceptor, for reasons only Best known to him, he is
believed to have swerved to the right to take the turn at Ashwin Garage. And in
so doing , he knocked Ms. Vaz off her two wheeler. Luckily she escaped
with bruises but her son started bleeding from the mouth. In all this
while the cops at the interceptor did sweet nothing, not even bothering
to enquire into this mishap. When the husband of Ms. Vaz accosted
them, they are believed to have told him that this is not their concern and
that they should call the traffic cops.
Ms Vaz insists that just because of the injury to her son that she has
not reported this matter to the higher Police authority through
registering a complaint against the crew of the interceptor.
I would like to bring to your kind attention that our police force has
become so insensitive that they will discharge their duties
irrespective of whether by the same token people are killed. In this
connection,
it is not surprising that a young lad died at Navi Mumbai recently
after having been stopped by a traffic cop when he was speeding, for not
wearing a helmet. This incident has been heavily reported in the Times
of India, I am told, the incident having taken place in the recent
past.
It is imperative that higher authorities in the Traffic Department,
especially SP Traffic (North) Shri. Arvind Gawas, takes note of the
above two incidents and implement corrective measures so that such things
do not repeat again in the future. Needless to say that the crew of
No. 4 Interceptor must be severely punished.
Floriano Lobo
383 A - Pirazona, Moira Bardez Goa 403507
PH: (M) 9890470896 Rws: (0832) 2470223
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Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:10 PM
Subject: [Goanet] Thing that should not happen ..... happened. A first
hand report
>
> If anyone had to say 'Traffic Cops' in Goa have become 'Traffic
> Murderers', there would be hardly any reaction from the listener/s.
They would say "This is actually so. So what is a big deal???".
>
> But if one had to say "Traffic Cops in Goa have become the
murderers of the commuters (riders) right on the roads and Highways', they
would scoff at it and dismiss it as pure fabrication.
>
> No, it is no fabrication. In fact this is very much true. This
actually happened at around 4.00 -4-30 p.m. at the Porvorim section of the
NH-17 ( very close to Ashwin Garage).
>
> As is the usual haunt of the 'Police Interceptor', which entire
exercise is nothing but to collect money for their own pockets and those of
the Transport Minister by way of extortion on the Highways , the
Interceptor No. 4 (GA-01-1380) was parked on the Sangolda side of the NH-17
very close to the huge banyan tree growing over the temple gumpti, a little
away from Ashwin Garage. As usual, the only work this interceptor or all
> interceptors do is to fine helmetless riders which believed is done
so that the fined riders may be reminded to use the helmets henceforth
and save their lives. But the actual purpose seems to be: Stop !, Pay the
fine or else Die.
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