Wednesday, June 2, 2010

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Death of woman: Goa Tourism Minister summoned

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 07:45 AM PDT

Goa’s Tourism Minister Fransisco Pacheco has been summoned by the state police in connection with the death of a 28-year-old woman, who allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison.

“South Goa district police issued summons to the minister at 4.00 p.m last evening. The minister could not present himself before the police as summons reached his office at 4.20 pm,” Lyndon Monteiro, officer on special duty to the minister, told PTI.

He said the minister had left for work when the summons were served.Nadia Torreado died on Sunday at a Chennai hospital after allegedly consuming rat poison.

Women’s organizations had alleged involvement of Pacheco in her death. However, Pacheco had rubbished the allegations claiming that Nadia was his family friend.

Alleging harassment by police, the family members of Nadia said they will approach the National Human Rights commission (NHRC) with their complaints against the police.

Courtesy:PTI

Launches owners submit memorandum to Goa MP

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 07:32 AM PDT

Goan Launch Owners will be out of business if the proposed plan of Mormugao Port Trust to ban the presently operating passenger launches which ferry passengers from big ships to the shore and vice versa,becomes a reality.

A delegation of Launch Owners under the leadership of Mr. NitinChopdekar, former Chairperson of Mormugao Municipal Council and ShriCarlos Almeida, Vice President of Mormugao Launch Owners Associationmet Mr. Shantaram Naik M.P. at his residence on Wednesday and stated that the MPT proposes to ban the existing launches in order to introduce modern launches with 12 nautical miles per hour speed.

The delegation told Mr. Naik that for ferrying passengers to and fro from the ships, speedboats with 12 nautical miles are not required,and that,  even Mumbai Port Trust does not have such launches.
The delegation told Mr. Naik that journey from shore to the ships hardly takes 1 to 3 hours, and that ships are not anchored at a distance more than 8 nautical miles.

The delegation have contented that there have been no complaints from any quarter whatsoever regarding the  service rendered by the present operators, and that , every year,  surveys and inspections are held
with respect to their launches.

The delegation also told Mr. Naik that they have no objection forsubmitting personal details of the owners/operators of the launches such as Income Tax Documents, Pan Card Copies, Copies of Partnership Deeds, Certificates of Registration of Firms etc.

They have also no objection for submitting any particulars which are reasonably required in the interest of the security of the state, they told Mr. Naik.

Mr. Naik assured the members of the delegation that he will take up the matter with the Union Minister of Shipping Shri G.K.Vasan as also with the Chairman of the Mormugao Port Trust Shri Praveen Agarwal.

Action against Goa Minister demanded after woman’s death

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 07:45 PM PDT

"We will now have to investigate other aspects like what drove her to attempt suicide and other relevant issues," said a senior police official in Margao.

A second post-mortem was conducted at the Government hospital in south Goa on Tuesday as ordered by the south Goa Magistrate since Ms. Torrado’s first autopsy, carried out by forensic experts at a Government hospital in Chennai on Monday, did not reveal much, according to sources.

Asked whether he would sack a south Goa Minister — who was said to be known to Ms. Torrado — as demanded by the Bharatiya Janata Party and women’s organisations, Mr. Kamat said he could not take action till the police report was out.

A campaign by women’s groups led by the Margao-based 'Sabera’ has pointed fingers at the senior non-Congress Minister of being responsible for the death. Mukta Naik, president of the BJP Mahila Morcha, Goa, demanded that the Minister be sacked.

The mother of Ms. Torrado, at a press conference on Tuesday, accused the police of harassing their family and threatened to approach the Human rights Commission. The police have denied the charge.

Courtesy:HT
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