Goemkarponn Desk
MELAULI: Shel Melauli Villagers have threatened to protest against the state government, if they fail to withdraw cases of attempt to murder against them.
Villagers have also given an ultimatum of 15 days to revert land alloted for IIT-Goa.
“We will agitate against the state government, if they fail to withdraw cases of attempt to murder against them. We have also granted an 15 days ultimatum to government to revert land alloted for IIT-Goa,” the villagers said
Police action in the Shel-Melauli violence began with the arrest of two activists for inciting and a FIR against 23 others being registered for assault on police teams even as the DGP transferred the case to Crime Branch.
Earlier, Valpoi MLA Vishwajit Rane also had demanded the Chief Minister to withdraw all the cases filed against the villagers of Shel-Melauli.
“Since the police marched in the village, the atmosphere changed. I wanted IIT as it will create developmental prospects but if people dont want it i stand with people,” Rane had said
Ever since an IIT was allotted to Goa by the central government in 2014, the institute has been functioning from a temporary campus shared by the Goa Engineering College in Farmagudi village, in South Goa.