AERIAL VIEW
But how efficient are our Goa police when it comes to high-profile cases? The remaining ten per cent of cases that the police have failed to solve are the ones which could prove the ability of our police to investigate the cases.
For example, police have no clue in cases like Siddhi Naik. A year on, and there is not a single arrest. Why?
In the last week the, we have seen drugs being seized from Goa Medical College hostel, an institution where students slog to get admission and the second one is Colvale jail, where a guard was caught in possession of drugs.
Leave the hundreds of cases of drug seizures; these two cases speak volumes for Goa Government’s and Goa Police’s commitment to eradicating drugs from Goa. The question that arises is whether the Chief Minister of Goa, Dr Pramod Sawant, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Director-General of Police are interested in eradicating drugs? The answer is a BIG NO.
Every day on social media, we find the Goa police teams posing for photographs with accused arrested for petty crimes and pat their own backs by saying the crime detection rate is about 90 per cent.
But how efficient are our Goa police when it comes to high-profile cases? The remaining ten per cent of cases that the police have failed to solve are the ones which could prove the ability of our police to investigate the cases.
For example, police have no clue in cases like Siddhi Naik. A year on, and there is not a single arrest. Why?
In the last week the, we have seen drugs being seized from Goa Medical College hostel, an institution where students slog to get admission and the second one is Colvale jail, where a guard was caught in possession of drugs.
Leave the hundreds of cases of drug seizures; these two cases speak volumes for Goa Government’s and Goa Police’s commitment to eradicating drugs from Goa. The question that arises is whether the Chief Minister of Goa, Dr Pramod Sawant, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Director-General of Police are interested in eradicating drugs? The answer is a BIG NO.
If there were the slightest effort made by the police and Govt headed by CM Sawant, the kingpins would have been behind bars.
The parents of the students now are slowly and steadily losing confidence in the police as they find no support from them. That is natural when the CM has already blamed their parents for the minor girl’s rape recently.
To get admission to the Goa Medical College, the students not only have to study hard and give up their childhood at SSC and HSSC but also get good numbers at NEET.
Not only the children but the parents also spend lakhs for studies and tutions.
After all these efforts, what happens is the students fall prey to drug abuse. Now, who is to be blamed for this? Parents, students, GMC, police or the government? The answer is the CM and the Health Minister, who have failed to keep GMC protected from this menace.
The second issue is about Colvale jail; Goemkarponn has always exposed how the prisoners are getting a luxurious life in jail, including drugs whenever ordered.
Even in the Colvale Jail issue, not just the guard but the Assitant jail superintendent, Jail Superintendent and the IGP Prisons all must be suspended.
If Vishwajit Rane can rusticate students for drugs, why not officers?
It is indeed a shock how the drugs make easy inroads into the jails, and the people who are supposed to protect the jail from any such nuisance are the ones who supply such materials for some easy money.
Not just GMC and Colvale jail, but many colleges in the State are slowly falling prey to this menace. Drugs are easily available around the campuses, and the school authorities are helpless in curbing the abuse.