Mickky sets 24-hour deadline to arrest cops in Cipriano murder
HERALD REPORTER
PANJIM, Feb 12: Former tourism minister Francisco Pacheco (Mickky) has given a deadline of 24 hours to Goa police to arrest the guilty police officials responsible for killing Moira resident Cipriano Fernandes in police custody.
“I demand immediate arrest of policemen accused of murdering Cipriano… I demand that guilty officers are named and arrested within 24 hours failing which I shall launch an agitation to ensure that they are booked,” Pacheco said in his press statement today.
The former minister’s statement comes on the day when Herald published a news report on how police have manipulated First Information Report (FIR) by not naming the guilty policemen. Pacheco has demanded that police to re-register a case of murder by naming the guilty policemen. “I demand that FIR be changed to name each and every police officer on duty and make them personally accountable for the crime they have committed. Moreover, everyone should be placed under arrest and not just transfer to other police station,” he stated adding that the guilty should be thoroughly interrogated to unearth truth.
Pacheco, asked the police department not to bog down to political pressures “It is a sad state of affairs that an MLA gets picked up (referring to himself in the Nadia Torrado death case) while policemen against whom there is forensic evidence of assaulting a man to death roams scot free,” he added. The former tourism minister said that he will not rest till the murderous policemen are brought to book.
