His Excellency, Mr. Eduardo Faleiro, Former Union Cabinet Minister of India,
Your write up on Goanet issue dated 1.12.2013 on Tejpal arrest and misuse of Police is found interesting for the readers. These are the issues for the judiciary and whether there is a misuse of Police is for the Government Home Dept to handle. Why Eduardo Faleiro has not taken relevance of Dual Citizenship for Goans when I have sent him for comments for Dr.Joe D’Sousa's article which appeared on Gomantak Times dt 3.Nov 2013 titled “ on Dual Citizenship is our birth right- Goans must be allowed to register names in Portugal” You must be for it , and if not you will be the Judes against working for the cause of birth right of Goans. Do you know that there are 45000 Goans who have applied for the Portuguese passport and they are pending in Lisbon consulate (Portugal0 and you could not do anything while you were in power as a Cabinet Minister of External Affairs during Congress regime? And now that you are putting your foot on controversial Tejpal arrest and says there is a misuse of Police because you wanted to be in the news? I understand that the rape of Goan girls and Paedophillia violence against children is more important to us than of the Tejpal case issue. The rape of Goan citizenship also is a matter of concern. Can you now at least comment on Dr. Joe article on Goanet and tell us whether you are for it or otherwise. Let us know your view point on Dual citizenship is our birth right? After you read his article. Stephen Dias, D.Paula ============================================================================ Message: 8 Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 05:11:57 +0530 From: Goanet News <news.goa...@gmail.com> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Subject: [Goanet] CONTROVERSY: Don't misuse Police in Tejpal case, says Eduardo Faleiro CONTROVERSY: Eduardo Faleiro on the Tejpal arrest ------------------------------------------------------- We should condemn the misuse of the Goa Police by the present Government in the case of Tarun Tejpal, the founding editor of Tehelka. We cannot go into the merits of the case at this stage and the true facts will be known only after examination of the CCTV footage at the hotel where the Think Fest was held earlier this month and after Shri Tejpal, the young journalist and the managing editor of Tehelka depose in Court. However, it is now very obvious that the BJP at the national level as well as the State Government in Goa are bent on settling scores and harassing Shri Tejpal to the utmost. It may be recalled that Tarun Tejpal had exposed corruption in Defence deals during the BJP rule in 2001 and as a result the then BJP national President Shri Bangaru Laxman and the then Union Defence Minister were compelled to resign. Shri Bangaru Laxman was also sentenced to four years in jail under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Thereafter, Tehelka did a report on the Bajrang Dal and several BJP politicians for their role in the massacre during the 2002 Gujarat violence. It also produced a report on Shri Ram Sena by showing that it took money to organize attacks against innocent people and organizations. Shri Tejpal has won several national and international awards, including awards from the International Press Institute for Excellence in Journalism in the years 2010 and 2011. Whilst the Police force is being used ruthlessly against Shri Tejpal, the law and order situation in Goa has deteriorated to an unprecedented extent. Sexual violence, drug trafficking and other crimes are on the increase but the Police hardly takes cognizance of these cases. Paedophillia-related violence against children is spreading in Goa. A report produced by the British Government indicates that Goa attracts a large number of paedophiles, mostly foreigners, and that they evade prosecution mainly because the Police are hand in glove with these criminals. Last January a seven-year-old girl was raped in the toilet of the school where she studied in Vasco. The Police have failed to nab the accused until this day. The present State Government should stop misusing the Police for partisan ends. The Police must conduct a fair investigation into the Tehelka case. It will unveil the truth. ------------------------------------------- Eduardo Faleiro is a former Union minister. lokseva...@gmail.com