PANJIM POLICE DISGRACED GOA.

PANJIM POLICE DISGRACED GOA.

Last week’s ugly incidents in Goa first at Panjim Police Station then at Taleigao at the residence of local MLA Babush Monsurate and later on at Miramar at Babush’s bungalow make me to put my head down in shame. Storming of a Police Station is not a matter of minor concern especially the Police Station of Capital city of Goa. Allowing the people to storm the Police Headquarter in Panjim by the Police personnel is a big shame for the entire Police force of Goa. This shows the efficiency of the Police in Goa to control the mob fury. These Goa policemen are good to give “talao” to “Buskar” and “Moddkekar”. Allowing of storming of the Panjim Police Station by the mob or a group of Goans without the help of arms such as guns, revolvers and hand bombs is a shame for Police at Panjim Police Station. This shows the inefficiency of the Goa Police to rise to the occasion when situation demands them to act adroitly without creating an ugly scene. What would be the fate of Panjim Police Station, its Police personnel and all the civilians working there if the crowd carried small bombs with them clandestinely and detonated inside? Is it difficult now-a-days to conduct such operations in Goa due to the advanced stage of Goans in handling arms and ammunitions clandestinely? Guns are now-a-days carried not only by the ordinary people as given to understand but also by the top officials including ministers. Was it not the same mode used to kill Siddartha Bandodkar? Who killed Jr. Bandodkar? Was it not from the revolver of the VIP in VIP residence?

While strongly condemning the brutality of Panjim Police on unarmed Monsurate family especially on Babush’s wife Jennifer and their young son, I express my deep concern for the peaceful Goa. There are different versions from different sources of media and people. People in Kuwait whom I spoke and met felt disheartened over the brutality of Panjim Police. All the Taleigao citizens working in Kuwait even females with whom I discussed this topic are fully supporting Monsurate and his action of taking side of Rayan who was mercilessly beaten by some goons while police remained passive. The job of Police is to protect the life of a citizen and not to put him into the deep sea for the Sharks to devour. This is the quality of the Goa Police in particular and Indian Police force in general. What a shame it is to have such impotent and crook police force in Goa after the forcible exit of Portuguese from Goa!! After the exit of Portuguese from Goa, the law and order protectors are become violators of law and order. With this act, the position of Babush in Taleigao is further fortified. With this unruly act of Goa police from Panjim headquarter Babush is become like a martyr for the people of Goa including from Kuwait.

According to one version of Panjim Police, the people who came to ask justice with the police at Panjim Police Station pelted stones at Police Station. Did Monsurate take part in this stone pelting? He was leading in front visible to the Police. He logically was not pelting stones. Why then was it necessary for Police to assault him mercilessly and that too when he was having the privilege of MLAship? Detaining him for security reason would be o.k., but surely not assaulting him to the extent of bruising his body and getting admitted into the hospital? This shows the extent of the beatings he received. And what guaranty is there that those who pelted the stones and created rowdism were not the hired goons of the opponents of Babush? Where are all the 39 MLA’s from Goa and why they are silent over this issue? Today it is Babush but tomorrow it can be any other MLA. If Police can do such a brutality against Babush then what about an ordinary citizen? If with the instigation of Narvenkar as alleged by Babush, the Panjim Police can take law into their own hands and mercilessly beat MLA and former Minister Babush then with this type of modus operandi Goa Police can even kill an ordinary citizen of Goa and yet can get away scott free. Though Babush Monsurate is not known to me personally yet I fully support him in his fight for justice. There must be some stern action against Police who acted so irresponsibly and so beastly.

Worst still was the brutality of Panjim Police in assaulting Mrs. Babush and their young son. What is wrong in mother going to Panjim Police Station and enquiring about her son? Are we still in Salazar’s Raj in Goa? No, I don’t think even in Salazar Raj we in Goa faced such a brutality. Not even fearsome Agente Monteiro of Portuguese era did dare to act so violently against women of Goa. Once, at Mapusa Police Station somewhere in 1958 for some genuine reason to get proper confession from a Goan woman, Agente Monteiro beat her with teacher’s type of Ruler on her open palm. When that Goan woman informed the higher authority thru proper channel, Agente Monteiro was severely castigated and even made to apologise to that Goan woman otherwise not only suspension order but sack order was prepared against Agente Monteiro. Portuguese law was very careful while dealing with females and Portuguese Government and Portuguese officials were very cautious when dealing with women in the Police custody. They respected women for their motherhood and sisterhood even though they may be guilty but they did not act with women like “Ghantti” barbarians or IPS deputationists dogs deputed from Delhi, to quote the late Dr. Jack de Sequeira.

Today’s many of the Police are brutes and rascals. Something has to be done to cure them and to civilize them. Panjim Police according to reports not only mercilessly assaulted Jennifer Monsurate but gave her worst and dirty bad words. This is unparliamentary and uncivilized. The Women Protection Associations in Goa must take up this issue seriously with the authorities concerned and they must also hold meetings all over Goa to highlight the plight of innocent women in the hands of brute Police of Goa at Panjim Police Station. Besides this, how Police can beat a young boy so severely? What was his fault? Was it wrong to be the son of his father Babush? And why did the Panjim Police assault Mayor of Panjim, Mr. Tony? Was there anything wrong on his part if he went to enquire about Babush? And beating the first citizen of Panjim to the extent to send him to hospital for severe injuries treatment is like committing genocide on Bengalis by the Pakistani Army in the then East Pakistan. Gen. Yaha Khanism and Hitlerism practiced by Goa Police in Goa must come to an end forthwith. Babush must work for it from the Assembly.

Worst crime of Panjim Police was going to Taleigao and storming the house of Babush Monsurate and also to Miramar to desecrate the bungalow of Babush. Is it the way to act in the manner of tit for tat? Is it right on Police to vandalise the house and bungalow of MLA Babush? Who authorized Panjim Police to take law into their own hands and ransack Babush properties like the way rogues, thieves and goondas do? Are Panjim Police personnel goons receiving instruction from their goons superiors? And by the way, who are these top police officers giving such illegal and uncivilized orders to their juniors to act recklessly? Is Goa in the hands of goonda police? Then we don’t want such police force and their superiors in Goa anymore. We want Police force that protects the life of ordinary citizens. Punishment to the wrong doers is in the hands of judiciary to mete out and not in the hands of uncultured and indisciplined Goa Police from Panjim.

Babush Monsurate may be bad in some other aspects but in this particular aspect he was not bad and as such he deserves support otherwise Police in Goa will re-introduce Salarzarshahi of the type even during the regime of Salazar never happened in Goa. We wanted freedom for Goa, for what? To give Police force unlimited powers to deal with Goans irresponsibly the way Agente Monteiro did in Portugese time? Where are the freedom fighters gone now and why they are silent? I think they are happy with their Tamrapatras and pensions they are getting, the rest go to hell. Babush Monsurate and all his supporters must not sleep until all the Policemen and their bosses are brought to justice. Babush and his followers which must have by now increased due to sympathy wave hold demonstrations in front of the houses of all the Policemen who were involved in this brutality. Babush and his supporters must gherao all the policemen individually and demand from them real explanation for their brute action. Babush and his followers must track every Panjim Policeman individually and tell him that what he did was wrong. Even the children and wives of the policemen involved in this brutality should not be spared, they must be put into shame. And mind you, all these policemen and police officers will not wear their uniforms round the clock, round the week, round the month and round the year. Question them when they are in civilian dress.

At Calangute Beach once about 35 years back one Police Inspector in civilian clothes while seated on the silver sands along with his newly wedded wife was similarly questioned of course aggressively with dire consequences by one local who was unnecessarily earlier assaulted by that Inspector at Calangute Police Station. The local asked that inspector thus “You assaulted me in the lock up with the power of your police uniform, revolver and lathi. Can you do that now? Shall I show you now my power and strength? The local wanted to assault the Inspector and break his bones but his wife and he shamelessly pleaded with folded hands with that local. And thanked God, the local kept quiet without doing any harm. But the Police Inspector promised never to repeat his nasty action again.

Babush and his followers must show Goa Police especially stationed at Panaji that they cannot rely on their Stars and Stripes always. These decorations are momentry show. Hence, they must act maturely. Police cannot accept any orders from their bosses. Jeprakash Narain asked Police force in India not to accept any wrong orders from Indira Gandhi’s Police Officers. He said morality must take precedence over everything. While Indira Gandhi when out of power, she told the Police Force in Delhi to reject the orders of Morarji Desai’s Police Officers. While these two top Indian leaders gave a call to Police force to reject unlawful orders of their bosses then why Goa police force accept unlawful orders from their bosses in Panjim? Though Goa Police give lot of statements in support of their actions and even saying their own members were hurt by the mob but from my past experience I don’t believe in anything that Goa police states because they are liars as per their history. Take for example, when the first Konkani martyr Floriano was shot dead by Goa Police force, they gave a statement that Floriano first came rushing to Police Hawaldar to snatch a revolver from him. It was a pure lie. In view of this, I don’t believe what Goa Police states against Monsurates, their supporters and Mayor Tony even though there may be some truth but even then I don’t believe the version of Goa Police. Goa police are goondas, fakers and liars. Only the impartial judicial enquiry will unfold the real truth and to get the real truth, on behalf of all my like minded Kuwaitkar friends and colleagues I demand judicial enquiry.

While concluding and while condemning the attack on Monsurates I tell Babush to be careful in life. Babush should not cross his boundary of good discipline. I am sure he never expected such a brutal attack on him because he thought too much of himself. Money power and goonda power finally went to the dogs. Nature has its own laws to punish every wrong doer. From here Babush must learn a very good lesson. In his hour of suffering and discomfort we are with Monsurates but Babush must try to bring about a change in him for the good and then only he will receive support from good people who expect good ways from him for the good of Goa and Goans. In the past by his dirty political games for his selfish ends Babush has done lot of damages for Goa and Goan causes. Now he must change otherwise the fury of nature and its strict laws will devour him permanently. In the words of Amitab Bacchan, "there is a supernatural power that guides and protect us. We must pay obeysance to it".

A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.

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