Team Herald
PANJIM: The relentless and effective charge by the Hyderabad Police to launch a war on drugs by going after the Goa drug lords, has stumped the Goa Police, which now sees a new player in uniform, grabbing the limelight.
Goa Police were on the back foot after the Police Commissioner of Hyderabad CV Anand, openly and unhesitatingly blamed the Goa Police by saying it did not cooperate when Hyderabad Police sought details to help in the investigating and arrest of Edwin Nunes.
On Sunday morning the DGP decided to take the battle to the Hyderabad camp by seeking evidence of noncooperation, that his force was charged with.
There is no question of not providing cooperation if the procedure was followed. If no procedure is followed by Hyderabad Police in the narcotic raid and arrests, then the act amounts to be illegal as the local police were not informed,” he explained.
“From January 2022 onwards we have checked all the records and on no occasion, Hyderabad Police or any of their local district police has not made any station diary with regards to any criminal or narcotic trade. No station diary is registered, which is mandatory in the interstate investigation as per CrPC,” Singh said.
Singh said post-Hyderabad Commissioner’s comment, Goa Police wrote an email to him asking in which all cases the assistance was sought and we failed to provide. “So far we have not received the reply from them,” he said adding ‘we don’t know what the motive behind making such a statement before media was’.
Admitting that there is always a “secrecy” that needs to be maintained, Singh said that “understanding” among the police teams is important.
Singh explained that there are instances wherein the Goa Police team has also gone through non-assistance or cooperation from its counterparts during investigations in other States. “But we never made it public,” he said.
“Crime can be controlled only when both police work in coordination,” he added.
