------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your family members, relatives, neighbours and friends. Help others be BETTER INFORMED, The time is come for the people of Goa to ORGANISE not AGONISE !! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Documented by Goa Desc Resource Centre (GDRC) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ New twist to S Goa injection scare ------------------------------------------------ The "injection" scare that has gripped Salcete's countryside over the last one month took a new twist on Tuesday with the Cuncolim police registering an offence against an "unknown person" for allegedly injecting a four-year old girl student at her school premises in Cuncolim during the recess.
The police action comes following a complaint lodged by the girl's father, Shabir Hattawali, suspecting that her child studying in lower KG must have been injected with some chemical or drug during her recess time. The girl was subjected to medical examination at Hospicio hospital on Tuesday. Her blood samples will be taken for examination on Wednesday, even as DySP Tony Fernandes said that a "prick mark" has been spotted on the child's buttock, raising further suspicions. The girl will be subjected to a thorough examination on Wednesday. In another related incident a girl student from Margao was reportedly admitted to Hospicio this evening with similar symptoms. Cuncolim PI Siddhant Shirodkar said that Hattawali lodged the police complaint after her daughter complained of pain on Monday. The girl was later referred to Hospicio by a private medical practitioner after suspicions grew whether the girl was injected by an unknown miscreant. So far, no complaint has come from the school given that Tuesday was a holiday. Incidentally, the police did not take any chances this time, given a similar rumour that did the rounds in Cuncolim that a girl student of another school was injected with a drug last week. "Though nothing is established as yet, the police registered the offence in view of rumours doing the rounds in Cuncolim", PI Shirodkar said. The police has registered an offence for wrongful restraint, besides an offence under section 324 of the IPC for voluntarily causing hurt to the student by the unknown person by injecting the contents, likely to be dangerous to her life. Rumours that an unknown woman is moving around with an "injection" has been doing the rounds over the last one month. Rumours also point to incidents at Velim, Mungul and Cuncolim. -------------------------------- HERALD 16/8/06 page 1 -------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GOA CIVIC AND CONSUMER ACTION NETWORK --------------------------------------------------------------------------- promoting civic and consumer rights in Goa --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GOACAN Post Box 187 Margao, Goa 403 601 GOACAN Post Box 78 Mapusa, Goa 403 507 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 8/15/2006 _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
