PANJIM: The police department has ordered a disciplinary inquiry against three cops who have been found guilty by the State Police Complaints Authority (SPCA) of having ''played an active role in a conspiracy'' against a Colva mundkar to deprive the latter of mundkarial rights.
"After receiving the SPCA's report, we asked SP (South) to conduct a preliminary inquiry. During inquiry it was found that there was substantial truth in the allegations and therefore we have ordered a departmental enquiry," said a senior police official. SPCA had indicted PI Uday Parab, PSI Kapil Naik and constable Arun Rane.
SPCA had asked the police department to initiate disciplinary or criminal proceedings against the three after they were found guilty of serious misconduct, deliberate bending of statutory rules and gross abuse of authority, after hearing a complaint filed by Sebastio and Remetin Lucas from Colva.
Raising questions about the ''crude and inhuman handling'' and ''total lack of professionalism and absolute perversion of the system'' displayed by PI Uday Parab, PSI Kapil Naik and constable Arun Rane, SPCA, led by Justice Eurico Santana da Silva, had observed that the ''respondents have consciously prevaricated in the discharge of their statutory duties and grossly failed to faithfully perform their professional obligations. While doing so they seem to have willingly or unwillingly played an active role in a well-planned conspiracy plotted against the petitioners in order to deprive them of their legitimate rights of mundkarship, in spite of these rights having been judicially acknowledged by the highest court of the state''.
SPCA had observed that there is a "strange mixture of twisted half-truths and untruths" which flow from the statements made by the cops, coupled with a "show of arrogance and irresponsible behaviour", even as there is sufficient evidence to indict all three for "acts of serious misconduct, deliberate bending of the statutory rules of procedure and gross abuse of authority".
In the complaint, the complainants had alleged gross misconduct and abuse of authority by Parab, who was in charge of Colva police station in 2006, Naik and Rane.
Lucas alleged that he was illegally arrested on September 4, 2006 based on a non-cognizable complaint lodged by one Melisa Fernandes, who owns the property on which their mundkarial house is located.
The next day, while attending proceedings in the sub-divisional magistrate's court, they came to know that the Fernandes' were demolishing their mundakrial house and when they tried to lodge a complaint at Colva police station to seek protection and stop the demolition, the police refused to entertain them and their house was razed and belongings completely destroyed.
These police personal were influenced by money or else they would have accepted the complaint lodged by the Mundkar. This is a repeat of many incidents taking place in Goa.
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