Times of India: Vasco: Sunday,
September 29, 2013.
Vasco police
have finally started an inquiry to obtain the actual figure of missing
complaints in Vasco. The entire staff has been put on duty, going through past
records and running all over the port town, finding details to get the figures
right.
Sources at
the police station said, "Some RTI papers are already in the pipeline to
get the records. People and organizations have raised eyebrows after the DIG
stated that there may be a connection between the missing boys from Vasco to
Yaseen Bhatkal." Right from 2009 onwards till 2013, the record books are
out. It showed that including male and females, every year from 2009 to 2012,
the missing figure remained in between 60-70 persons. And in 2013, the figures
have already reached 39. The police is investigating now, that from these
missing people, how many came back, how many died and how many are still
missing.
A source
said, "Most of the missing complaints are of migrants who come to Goa in
search of jobs and then run away after they cannot cope up with the hard work.
It is then that the owner registers a missing complaint."
A large
amount of complaints are also reported from the Indian Navy and Varunapuri
areas and from fishing communities, like Khariawada, police said.
So far, the
only case where officials doubted any link was of Imtiyaz Ahamad, who went
missing from Mangaon, Raigad district, Maharashtra, this April. A team from
Vasco police station has left for Mangaon to investigate the case.
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