With no efforts to penalize the son of the former IGP Mr.KD.Singh or recover from him the damages caused while unauthorizedly driving his father’s official Toyota Innova vehicle last year, there seems to be a different yardstick for a police driver involved in an accident in discharge of his official duties.
Police Driver Vinod Malvankar who was driving a Police van from Goa Medical College to Vasco’s Sada Jail met with an accident at Agacaim on 27th August 2003. There was absolutely no damage to the police vehicle. A scooterist collided with the police van and later succumbed to his injuries. The Agacaim police promptly charge sheeted the police driver for rash and negligent driving. On 9th July 2007, the Additional Sessions Judge, Panaji acquitted the police driver while ruling that he was not driving rash or negligently. A police departmental inquiry also in its report dated 24th June 2009 held that the charge of rash and negligent driving against the police driver could not be proved. In spite of all this the Goa Police by an order dated 23rd April 2010 directed that Rs 1,10,000/- be recovered from Police Driver Malvankar in 60 instalments towards payment of compensation awarded by the Motor Vehicles Tribunal to the accident victim’s family. From May 2010 the police have been deducting Rs 1833 monthly from his salary. For a police driver whose month gross salary is just Rs 13892/- and having no nexus with the drug Lords, the unjust monthly deduction of Rs 1833/- has been devastating. His only fault is that he is not the IGP or his son. Aires Rodrigues T1 - B30, Ribandar Retreat Ribandar - Goa - 403006 Mobile: 9822684372
