THURSDAY, MAY 09, 2024
PRATIK PARAB
PANJIM: From one of the largest drug rackets of the country being operated from the Central jail to shooters taking refuge in Goa, lawbreakers are finding Goa as a place to take refuge after committing crimes.
Two shooters who killed the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) Haryana President Nafe Singh Rathee, were arrested in Goa recently. Two shooters, identified as Saurabh and Ashish, were nabbed in a joint operation of Jhajjar Police, the Haryana STF and a Special Cell of Delhi Police.
Just as the story of the arrest of the shooters broke, the Telangana police during an investigation unearthed one of the largest drugs rackets that was being run from Colvale jail.
The details were revealed after the Cyberabad police investigated the accused persons who were arrested in a drug raid at Gachibowli’s Radisson Blu hotel.
It may be recalled that gang members of a Nigerian drug smuggler Ivala Udoka Stanley, who was arrested in February were found to be operating the racket from Colvale Jail in Goa.
Suchana Seth chose as the place to kill her son Activists say that the fear of law and order in Goa has finished.
Adv Hrudaynath Shirodkar said, "Criminals are not frightened of police and law and order. The government has made the peaceful State of Goa into such a state. Government has made Goa the Las Vegas of India. Attack on rent-a-cab drivers, on tourists are suggestive that Goa has not remained to be a peaceful State.
Activist Mahesh Mhambrey said, "The police are getting calls to go slow against accused persons. This shouldn't happen. This will affect tourism very badly."
Goa-Telangana cops face-off surfaces again after major drug raid in Hyderabad
Goa IG Prisons “rebuts” serious charge of Telangana police that the biggest drug racket in India is being run from Goa’s Colvale jail; says “we are watching a Hyderabad drug dealer in Colvale jail closely”
PANJIM: Stunned and on the back foot after the Telangana police made a direct and serious indictment of the Goa police, that the biggest drug racket in India was being run from the Colvale jail, Goa’s IG prisons tried a rebuttal. But it felt way too short to combat the seriousness of the charge levelled by their South India counterparts.
The Inspector General (IG) of Prisons Omvir Singh Bishnoi told O Heraldo, when asked to react to the Telangana police comment.
"We are keeping a close watch on a drugs racketeer named Faisal who is currently in Colvale jail. He is from Hyderabad," the IG said.
The IG's comments did absolutely nothing to counter the charge that a continuous and sustained drug activity including its distribution is being conducted by criminals inside Colvale jail.
The trading of allegations between the two police forces has been done ever since the Sonali Phogat murder case and the arrest of several Goan restaurant businessmen from North Goa. The face-off has started simmering again after the Cyberabad police and Telangana Anti-narcotics Bureau (T-NAB) conducted a raid on a high-profile rave party that was held in a star hotel in Gachibowli on the intervening night of February 25 and 26 and allegedly found links of the arrested drugs suppliers to Goa.
