Bailancho Ekvott president claims of receiving threat call
HERALD REPORTER
MARGAO, JUNE 9
Bailancho Ekvott President Auda Viegas has said that she received a threatening call early Wednesday morning on her role in exposing the Nadia death case episode, but vowed to continue her battle till the culprits are booked by the Crime Branch.
Briefing newsmen, Viegas said she has received a threatening call this morning and have also learnt from her friends that some people will stone her house for taking up Nadia’s case like they did sometime ago for Colva Panch Calvert Gonsalves.
“If these people feel that the Minister is not involved in the incident, I don’t think they should resort to violence. They should not judge and instead wait for the results as the police are still investigating the case”, she said.
The woman activist, however, said that she would not be cowed down by such threats as she stands by the truth, making it clear that stones cannot silence her voice. “These people are conspiring to smash my house like they did for Calvert and also finish the NGO. I will see how they do it. I am not alone in the fight for justice”, she said.
Replying to a question, Viegas said she will not ask for police protection, saying she did not ask for protection when threats were issued to shoot her dead on the streets when she took up the Sara Pacheco case.
Expressing satisfaction over the present investigations into the Nadia death case, she said the Crime Branch is going in the right directions, but said the agency still has to do a lot of investigations.
