Crack down on vehicular thefts
It is learnt that a stolen vehicle was used to commit the theft of the ATM of a bank at Usgao. The Omni van was found abandoned at the starting point of the Comba ring road in the jurisdiction of the Fatorda police station. In the past investigators have found that stolen vehicles are often used to commit other crimes. These vehicles are abandoned at isolated places as the thieves try to escape with the booty. It is understood that in Mumbai almost all cases of chain snatching that have been cracked were committed using stolen bikes.
According to the Mumbai police those anti-social elements with a criminal record are often involved in theft of vehicles. Auto theft is often the first crime engaged in by juvenile offenders who go on to a career of committing other crimes. Stolen vehicles are often used in burglaries, armed robberies and other crimes. A large number of car thieves are also charged with other crimes, such as arson, drug trafficking, kidnapping, burglary, and fraud. Hence the first step towards apprehending these anti-social elements would be for the police to investigate cases of vehicular theft with all seriousness it deserves. Cracking the case of stolen vehicles will go a long way in preventing other crimes taking place in the society. Those apprehended in vehicular theft cases should also be investigated for other crimes.
Adelmo Fernandes, Vasco
Goa needs a PWD training college
The plight of protesting Sanguem farmers opens old wounds. The last attempt by the Goa govt to force the construction of an IIT shocked everyone, and caused great pains to the bravehearts of Melaulim, Sattari. The brutal manner in which the rights of citizens were trampled should never be repeated, especially as they are stakeholders of their village’s development. True, an IIT is a blessing for any State, and every graduate will undoubtedly enrich the world, but maybe mild-mannered Goa needs to be a little selfish and invest in an educational institution that will help us first.
Goa sorely needs a PWD training college, with seats allotted after very careful vetting by local communities. Only students with proven unshakeable virtues, and with no criminal records in their families, for at least two generations should be elligible. Since construction of lasting roads is clearly rocket science, the college will have to hire scientists from NASA as lecturers. Potable water purity, underground power cabling, sewerage treatment, construction of infrastructure that doesn’t flake away in a fortnight, harvesting of rainwater through storm drain conduits and so many more currently neglected PWD duties will require experts from the Netherlands, Japan and the Nordic countries.
Chris Fernandes, Miramar
The real culprits in land scam
I congratulate Asmita on her journalism on her writing on Land Scam. But who are the real culprits? The investor or the seller? In the matter of delay of Sale Deed Registration the complaints ought to have filed by the Purchaser who is the investor in the property, being the Interested Parties Why the lawyers? Is there a Quid Pro QUO with the sub Registrar?
Inventories are conducted by the lawyers without the knowledge of the Interested Parties. Neither the head of the family nor the interested parties are present during the proceedings. Take the example of Inventory Proceedings No 137/2010/F/G filed in 2010 without producing documents of property 113/5 Calangute of my predecessors in title … 126 hearing pass by on one single issue.
Take another example Inventory proceedings No 5/2017/C filed in February 9, 2017 and decided on October 12, 2017 property 109/8 Calangute sold on 22/2/2017 before the Inventory proceedings Order hurriedly registered the Sale Deed by the Sub Registrar of Mapusa, Bardez without the knowledge of the co -owners who are also the Interested parties in Inventory Proceedings No 137/2010/F/G.
In both cases the HOF is the same person under different name. The Sub Registrar is right to delay the Registration for reason best known to them.
Antonio Jose De Souza, by email
Garbage problem in Goa
The garbage problem in Goa has become a headache for the government and people of Goa as every nook and corner of Goa is filled with garbage which gives out dirty and foul smell which may cause an epidemic situation if the problem is not tackled immediately as each and every village is becoming a ‘Sonsoddo.’ What is really disturbing and shocking site to see in the early morning is that every villager who has a motorcycle brings with him a plastic bag full of garbage and throws it in another village road making each and every village dirty and filthy thus not observing the swatch Bharat mission launched by our Prime Minister Modi.
In olden days to my knowledge our grandfathers used to burn the dry waste after collecting in a bin and the wet waste would be used as manure for plants. This doesn’t happen nowadays and now everyone tries to dispose the waste on the roadside. One villager tries to dump waste in another village this is happening early in the morning as they don’t understand the gravity of the problem as if one person if he or she tries to dump garbage in another village the other person will come and dump in his village without his knowledge thus making each and every village of Goa dirty and full of garbage menace. Unless the Village Panchayat does not take cognition of this problem our villages of Goa will also become like our towns. And we are talking of Smart Cities, is there any development in the Capital city? The development in the smart cities is no proper motorable roads thus causing lot of accidents.
Diomedes Pereira, Corlim
Why blame the Portuguese?
Our Chief Minister Pramod Sawant was heard blaming the Portuguese for looting Goa during their 400-year rule in the State to somehow distract Goans from the misdeeds of his own government whilst speaking at an official function at the Fort Aguada, Siquerim recently.
Well, as per the versions/testimonies of most of our old-timers, the Portuguese were far more better disciplined rulers than all our very own co-called ‘elected’ rulers of today. They used to give top priority for law and order in the State, used to keep the crime rate under control, where non-corrupt and never used to accept bribes from Goans whilst providing any of their services in Goa.
Our very own elected business-minded politicians are seen practically destroying Goa from all sides by promoting all types of filthy alcohol related activities; filling our agricultural lands/fields in the name of bringing some long-term developmental projects i.e. three linear projects, four lane roads etc. Yes, what the Portuguese couldn’t do during their official 450 year rule, our very own elected politicians are still seen doing within a short span of time.
Jerry Fernandes, Saligao
Zimbabweans no match for India
Zimbabwe proved to be easy meat for a second-string Indian team in the first of the three ODIs. The KL Rahul-led side put up a dominating show skittling out the hosts for 189 and cruising home by ten wickets. Bowlers Deepak Chahar, Prasidh Krishna and Axar Patel, shared the bowling honours, scalping three wickets each, while openers Shikhar Dhawan (81) and Shubman Gill (82) toyed with the Zimbabwean attack. The lesser lights performing admirably on the big stage augurs well for the future of Indian Cricket.
N J Ravi Chander, Bengaluru
