Sanguem PS left at the mercy of official rivalry

TEAM HERALD

teamherald@herald-goa.com

PANJIM: The police inspector, who once complained of harassment by his senior officer and was subsequently suspended for allegedly misbehaving with him, has reportedly refused to accept a fresh posting, incidentally under the same superior.    

Among 14 inspectors transferred last month was Police Inspector Sagar Ekoskar who was shunted from Goa Reserve Police to Sanguem police station.  

The order has put him in a tight spot as he will have to work under Quepem’s Sub Divisional Police Officer Mahesh Gaonkar, against whom the police inspector had complained of harassment three years back. 

The refusal to take over the new place of posting has left the Sanguem police station without a station in-charge for over a month. The department’s establishment board that issued the transfers order in May is reportedly trying to settle the matter but in vain. 

For now, Police Sub Inspector Sachin Panalkar is holding the fort in PI’s absence.  

In 2010, Ekoskar, then posted at Mormugao took a daring step to officially file a complaint of harassment against Gaonkar to the then director general of police. To substantiate his complaint, the officer had attached a 33-page evidentiary document to the seven-page harassment copies against the SDPO.

The department has till date taken no serious cognizance of the harassment complaint and instead Ekoskar ~ presently at Passport Cell of Goa Police~ was targeted for a slight aberration between the two at police headquarters in the following year. 

The PI was suspended within minutes after Gaonkar complained to then DGP Dr Aditya Arya about the incident. He was later reinstated and posted to GRP. 

The senior officers are tight lipped on whether PI’s harassment complaint had any outcome.

The  order has put him in a tight spot as he will have to work under Quepem’s Sub Divisional Police Officer Mahesh Gaonkar, against whom the PIC?complained harassment three years back.