Why just Gudlar, why not Bansal, Bassi, Ravi Naik and Digambar?
Sujay Gupta
Your newspaper has been pushed Into doing its second Open Edit in two
days because the call for action has never been more urgent.
It is entirely shucking that a nation and a State whose motto is
Satyameva Jayate should discover a metaphor for ravenous loot and deceit
in its police force in Goa. Make no mistake. the story of drug peddler
cops and then nexus with senior IPS officers in Goa is a big national
issue and a cause of national shame.
But what is even more significant is how the entire notorious drug
lobby. which was -at least temporarily on the back foot with the arrest
of Atala and Dudu, has aggressively managed to shift the goal posts.
From a situation where the heat was on the drug dons and investigations
against them, Dudu, and his female Shakti Vahini of girlfriend and
sister, managed to strip bare the entire police of its dignity by a
continued sting operation where PSI Gudlar was treated like a puppet who
fell into the trap, lured by greed in the form of money, chocolates and
perhumes.
But no perfume can hide the stench in the system. The entire force and
their master Ravi Naik stands naked today.
Isn't it significant that two foreigner women. a sibling and a
girlfriend of a drug lord have been policing and filming covert
operations of bent policemen like Gudlar. The tapes were then shown to
the home minister (we are still confused which side he is on and since
he does not speak, we are not quite sure) and then released to a news
channel, whose commendable efforts in airing them brought a closure to
almost any doubt about that fact that a section of Goa's policemen do
not have a nexus with drug dealers and peddlers. They are dealers and
peddlers themselves.
For Team Dudu-his support staff and legal team, this was a job extremely
well done. After all when the principal force of authority (on paper) is
brought to its knees with proof of its involvement with the very
criminals it is supposed to nab, the sting is taken out of its operation.
This begs another serious issue. Who actually conducted and funded the
sting operation? Zarina and Ayala were just instruments and Dudu played
a role. But which is this media agency which they claim they have a
contract with. And if this is true, then this is a matter of
international concern that a foreign news agency has a contract with
close associates of a drug lord to carry out a sting operation against
the Goa Police. Since Ravi Naik has a heads up on this and received the
tapes earlier than the news channel, what has he done to tell us who
this agency is? Ofcourse he would be loathe to find out who is stripping
him bare, but then his position as home ministe demands he does so.
And how was the operation conducted so smoothly and confidently? Because
the only face of authority is the corrupt policeman. The criminal gives
money in the morning and money in the evening. Why should he have
respect for somebody he gives bribes to?
The dejection that all of us have is that the buyer has triumphed over
the bought.
Thew is no shame left. It is pertinent to ask whether there is a Goa
left when most of its ruling class has abandoned every principle in its
composite, vulgar commitment to hoot.
But hopefully, Goa is larger than its ruling class. I call for a larger
Goa not to be fooled into thinking that the rot will be cleared by
arresting a PSI called Gudlar. The system believes it can satiate any
level of public anger with the meat of a scapegoat. Though Gudlar may be
guilty, he is an easy scapegoat for his bosses up the line, Bansal, DGP
Bassi, Home Minister Ravi Naik and right upto Chief Minister Digambar
Kamat. Let's aim higher to know how low the Goa government has sunk.
(ENDS)
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