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Herald, 16/05/06
State govt orders inquiry into Sanvordem riots
BY HERALD REPORTER
PANJIM, MAY 15 — Nearly two months after the Sanvordem-Curchorem riots,
the State government has ordered a magisterial inquiry.
The inquiry will be conducted by the North Goa District Magistrate and
Collector Nikhil Kumar, IAS and the inquiry report has to be submitted
to the government within a period of one month.
The State home department with very comprehensive terms of reference
directing the district magistrate to undertake an inquiry into the
entire episode of riots at Guddemol-Sanvordem where damage was done to
people and property issued an order to this effect today.
Besides ascertaining the facts in the incident, the inquiry would also
examine the extent of property lost, injuries caused and above all the
sequence of events that led to the riots.
The inquiry will also have to suggest appropriate course of action
against persons responsible and to ascertain whether there has been any
lapse in discharge of duties by government officers involved in the
incident and fix the responsibility, if any.
The terms of reference also includes suggestions of remedial measures to
prevent re-occurrence of such incidents in future.
Kumar who received the orders today said that he would begin the inquiry
immediately and issue a notice for the public at large to come forward
and report to the magistrate on the riots.
It is learnt that the Citizens’ Initiative for Communal Harmony, which
was formed after the outbreak of the riots had in the last week of April
submitted a representation to the government demanding for an inquiry
into the March 2006 riots. The initiative had also served a 15 days
ultimatum for an inquiry and a report on the same.
The co-conveners of the group Albertina Almeida and Ramesh Gauns said
that it would have appreciated an independent inquiry.
The President of Federation of Muslim Jamaaps and Association, M K
Shaik, has welcomed the magisterial inquiry into the riots and demanded
immediate settlement of the compensation claims pending with the South
Goa collectorate.
The Opposition leader Manohar Parrikar reacting to the same, said, “A
magisterial inquiry after two months has no meaning.”
Parrikar said an inquiry into the incident should have come soon after
the incident and termed the present exercise as “too late.”
He feared that the inquiry officer being a government servant could be
influenced.
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