Times of India:
Goa: Sunday, 24 March 2013.
RTI
activists have expressed their unhappiness at the pace at which the police are
carrying out investigations into their complaint and want that the police find
out who was responsible for mobilizing the mob that disrupted their meeting
held on March 2, at CD BlueChip conference hall in Pajifond, Margao.
RTI
activists rued the fact that it took the police 20 days after the incident to
register a case against 100 unknown accused persons, who formed an unlawful
assembly and wrongfully confined the members of RTI forum.
The
'by invite-only' meeting was called by the Goa RTI forum to discuss the
findings of the Shah commission report and activists Ramesh Gawas and Bhushan
Bhave were to attend the same. But, after around 400 people representing the
mining dependent community forcibly gathered outside the building, with some of
them barging inside the meeting hall and the staircase leading to the hall, the
meeting had to be cancelled.
"The
basic intention was to find out the motive and who was behind this incident.
The police must investigate how many such buses came, who owns them, who hired
them and who paid them," said complainant Shrikant Barve, while alleging
that the hand of mining companies could have been behind the incident.
"Twenty
days have passed and we can understand that they register offences against 100
unknown persons but they could have easily identified atleast some people who
were present there. They could have checked with the various truck owners
associations and even could check recordings of the incident," added
Barve.
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