Govt asks police for report on Naxalites
HERALD REPORTER
PANJIM, MAY 8
The State Home Ministry has asked the police to submit a detailed report whether Naxalites have used Goa as a place to lie low.
Speaking to reporters here Chief Secretary Sanjay Srivastava said that he has asked the police to check whether the State has been used to lie low by the nefarious minds.
Home Ministry’s action has come in wake of recent arrest of a Naxalite leader Sambu Beck.
Beck was a leader of Maobadi Trushul Manch from Orissa. He was wanted by Orissa police for murders, kidnapping and extortion cases in Sundargarh district of that State.
“The Home Ministry has asked for report whether there are any other similar groups working here and what action they are taking to identify them,” Srivastava said adding “Goa may be a place to lie low for nefarious minds. We are getting all the details from the police.”
Superintendent of Police Veenu Bansal, who headed the operation to nab Beck this week, on Friday had said that the Naxal was in the State as ‘he wanted to lie low.’
Bansal said Beck was also working in the one of the industrial units in Goa and was hiding here for last one and half month before State police zeroed in on him.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Digamber Kamat said that appropriate steps are taken by the police to verify antecedents of all those people who migrate here from other States.
“I don’t think that naxalites are trying to spread their roots in Goa. Their agitations are on various issues… There is proper study on Naxalism in the country,” he said.
When asked whether anti-mining sentiments of locals can be exploited by Naxalites to spread their tentacles in the State, the chief minister replied in the negative.
