---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orlimgaum Rakonnmanch <[email protected]> Date: Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:44 PM Subject: Fwd: press note for immediate release farmer and activist in orlim threatened To: ganvghor <[email protected]>
For immediate press release Today while a senior citizen and farmer of Varca Orlim was working in his field he was photographed by two persons claiming to be sent by the builder the said farmer Felix Rebello was putting the mud on his bandh and preparing his field .The two persons told him that they were sent by the builder Anand Batra who is constructing a Mega project Ratan Exotica which is part of a PIL in the Bombay High Court Goa they claimed they were goans Dadas from Benaulim and told Felix if he wants he should fight them or get his Dadas . Soon after two police men came to him in the fields saying he could not carry out his work Felix along with members now of Orlim Gaum Rakhon Manch who came on site told the police that they could not stop this farming activity . The said builder has stopped the traditional way for the past 3 years which has resulted in other farmers also not being able to grow their fields .Now Felix against all odds started growing his field and this is the harassment that is meted out to him not only by the builder but also by the law . The said builder it will be pertinent to know has recently made visits to Kim Miranda residence prior to which he has called her and on not taking the call visited her at her residence saying she should withdraw the case or face the consequence the same contact was made with another Executive Member of OGRM Ida Cuthinho .The OGRM takes strong exception to this unsociable visit and intimidation.Its members told builder he must not talk to them but to their lawyer and such threats will not cow them down . Sincerely Shanti Fortes President OGRM
