----------------------------------------------------- Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your family members, relatives, neighbours and friends. Help others be better informed CONSUMERS. ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- GOACAN calls for intervention by DGP & Women’s Commission on crimes against women in Goa. ------------------------------------------------------ GOACAN is deeply concerned about the outcome of the police investigations being conducted at the Ponda Police Station into the rape and murder cases involving the suspect Mahanand Naik as it presents the harsh realties & challenges facing Goan Society.
While the confessions by the accused during the Police investigation now point out that the murders were part of a serial killing exercise, most of the victims were reported as missing to the Police at various points of time. While GOACAN appreciates the efforts of the team of officials at the Ponda Police Station in making this breakthrough through their investigation, it calls upon the Director General of Police (DGP) Mr. Bhinsain Bassi to undertake an urgent review so as to identify possible lapses that have occurred in the functioning of the police personnel during the past 15 years. GOACAN is also concerned that very little attention was paid by the police to the various missing complaints filed by the family members of the women in the past and is of the opinion that the DGP must call for the records of all such missing complaints of women from the police outposts & police stations all over Goa so that a comprehensive review be undertaken of these cases. GOACAN also calls upon the Chairperson of the Goa State Women's Commission, Dr. Pramod Salgaocar to take up the sexual abuse, rape and murder cases of young girls and women reported from the Ponda Police Station and those that have occurred in the Ponda Taluka and appoint a Fact Finding Team to go into the social, economic and political circumstances that led to these crimes. GOACAN also calls upon the Women’s Commission to set up a Task Force on Crimes Against Women to identify the measures, both short & long term that need to be taken by various stakeholders to end these heinous crimes. Meanwhile the recently formed Goa Womens Forum a collective of women volunteers of Consumer Forums will observe a “Crimes Against Women Awareness Fortnight” from 17th to 30th May to highlight the role and responsibility of various Govt. and Non-Govt. agencies in tackling crimes against women. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- 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: goa...@bsnl.in ----------------------------------------------------------