PANJIM: The Goa Human Rights Commission (GHRC) on Tuesday directed that notices be issued to the Chief Secretary and Director General of Police over the move to hurriedly and haphazardly inaugurate a police station at Sancoale, on August 15.
The directions issued on a complaint filed by Advocate Aires Rodrigues said that the Chief Secretary on March 15, this year had informed the GHRC that the proposed police station which was supposed to be inaugurated on the occasion of local MLA Alina Saldanha’s birthday on February 27 had been kept on hold and that the police station would be notified only after all the suitable arrangements as regards infrastructure facilities are put in place.
The Chief Secretary and DGP have today been directed to file their replies and remain present for the hearing on August 11, at 10.30 am.
Adv Rodrigues in his complaint has stated that despite the undertaking given by the Chief Secretary, the authorities are now trying to hurriedly and haphazardly inaugurate the Sancoale Police Station on August 15, at the old Electricity Department quarters which were abandoned for around two decades and in a very dilapidated condition.
He stated that the authorities were acting unlawfully in breach of law as the setting up of a new police station needs to be first notified in the Official Gazette which to date has not been done and the jurisdiction of the new police station has to be also specified in terms of Section 2(s) of the Criminal Procedure Code.
