PANJIM, FEB 1
Goa police today confirmed that the case of police-drug mafia nexus involving suspended police sub-inspector Sunil Gudlar is still not handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Police spokesperson Superintendent of Police (Special Branch) Atmaram Deshpande told reporters that the Department had proposed that the Government hand over the case to CBI, which is currently being probed by the Special Investigating Team (SIT).
“The Department some time back sent a proposal to the Government asking to hand over the case to the CBI. We are awaiting response”, he said.
Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, a week ago, had said that the Government was weighing options of handing over the cops-drug peddler nexus case to the CBI.
“The State home ministry’s proposal to hand over the entire drug-nexus investigations to the CBI is under active consideration”, Kamat was quoted as saying.
In another police-drug nexus probe involving drug peddler Yaniv Benaim alias Atala, State Government has asked the CBI to accept the case, written reply of which is awaited.
Deshpande said that he is yet to get a written confirmation from the authorities on whether this case has been accepted by the CBI or not.
Digambar Kamat-led Government has been facing flak after the Crime Branch made no substantial breakthrough in the investigations into the policemen-politician-drug peddler nexus cases, which have kept coming to light time and again.
While Atala was arrested in March 2010 after his former girlfriend Lucky Farmhouse Amori caught him in a sting confessing about his links, another drug dealer David Driham alias Dudu was arrested with cocktail of drugs at Anjuna in February 2010.
The sting operation conducted by Dudu’s sister, Ayala Driham and his girlfriend Zarina had caught police sub-inspector Sunil Gudlar on spy-camera selling drugs.
