Killers on the prowl? Cops in tizzy
TNN
PANAJI: Goa continued to reel under a spate of mysterious deaths with more bodies being recovered on Wednesday. The total number of bodies recovered since Sunday now stands at 10.
The bodies of a woman, her two children—a four-year-old girl and a six-year-old boy—and her companion were fished out of the Ourem creek in Panaji on Wednesday.
A panel of doctors, meanwhile, conducted post-mortems on the bodies of three women found under mysterious circumstances in the last two days.
While the post-mortem on the 16-year-old girl from Taliegao whose body was found in Verna revealed that she died of strangulation, the woman who was found at Merces on Monday had been smothered to death.
The postmortem report revealed that even the third woman found at Khorjuvem in Mapusa has been smothered to death. Police have registered both the cases as murder.
15 October 2009, The Times of India, Goa edition
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Steps to avoid swapping of boarding cards
Steps to avoid swapping of boarding cards
PREETU NAIR, TNN
PANAJI: In February 2009, four Iranians, who had boarded a flight from Goa to UK were detained at Bahrain by the British consulate staff, when the crew stopped there for refueling. They were found to be travelling on forged Cyprus passports.
In another instance, in October 2008, a person who had taken a ticket to fly to Dubai in an Indian airlines flight boarded an IA flight to Mumbai. He was apprehended at the Mumbai airport.
With cases of boarding card swapping and missing domestic and international passengers coming to light at the Dabolim airport, this year, the Goa police has asked all charter and tour operators to ensure separation of domestic and international passengers in immigration areas to avoid mixing of passengers and boarding card swapping.
"To ensure that no such things happen, we have also asked for separate security check gates for domestic and international flights and checking of passport at ladder point, before boarding of flight to avoid impersonation," said SP (Immigration) Tony Fernandes.
This issue was discussed during a meeting of all charter operators and tour operators held by the police on October 9, 2009 at police headquarters. Also, all flight operators have been asked to ensure that sufficient blank disembarkation cards are collected from Immigration office Dabolim airport and the same sent well in advance to the originating country of the charter flight. The said cards should be filled on board the flight by the passengers before arrival in Goa and filling of disembarkation cards in the Immigration arrival hall should be avoided, as the same will create confusion/hindrance in the Immigration procedure.
Also, with the number of Russian tourists expected to increase this year, the police has made it clear that "during last charter season it was noted that many passengers, specially from Russia, arrived under heavy influence of alcohol and created nuisance in the arrival hall. Immigration reserves the right to accept/reject such passengers".
Besides, swine flu check forms will be given to passengers on board the flights. Meanwhile, two charter flights arrived from Russia today, bringing with it 382 tourists. While one flight brought in 176 Russians and one Kazakhistan passenger, the second flight brought in 184 Russians, 15 Belarus nationals, 4 Ukranians, 1 Iranian and 1 Armenian passenger.
15 October 2009,The Times of India, Goa edition
PREETU NAIR, TNN
PANAJI: In February 2009, four Iranians, who had boarded a flight from Goa to UK were detained at Bahrain by the British consulate staff, when the crew stopped there for refueling. They were found to be travelling on forged Cyprus passports.
In another instance, in October 2008, a person who had taken a ticket to fly to Dubai in an Indian airlines flight boarded an IA flight to Mumbai. He was apprehended at the Mumbai airport.
With cases of boarding card swapping and missing domestic and international passengers coming to light at the Dabolim airport, this year, the Goa police has asked all charter and tour operators to ensure separation of domestic and international passengers in immigration areas to avoid mixing of passengers and boarding card swapping.
"To ensure that no such things happen, we have also asked for separate security check gates for domestic and international flights and checking of passport at ladder point, before boarding of flight to avoid impersonation," said SP (Immigration) Tony Fernandes.
This issue was discussed during a meeting of all charter operators and tour operators held by the police on October 9, 2009 at police headquarters. Also, all flight operators have been asked to ensure that sufficient blank disembarkation cards are collected from Immigration office Dabolim airport and the same sent well in advance to the originating country of the charter flight. The said cards should be filled on board the flight by the passengers before arrival in Goa and filling of disembarkation cards in the Immigration arrival hall should be avoided, as the same will create confusion/hindrance in the Immigration procedure.
Also, with the number of Russian tourists expected to increase this year, the police has made it clear that "during last charter season it was noted that many passengers, specially from Russia, arrived under heavy influence of alcohol and created nuisance in the arrival hall. Immigration reserves the right to accept/reject such passengers".
Besides, swine flu check forms will be given to passengers on board the flights. Meanwhile, two charter flights arrived from Russia today, bringing with it 382 tourists. While one flight brought in 176 Russians and one Kazakhistan passenger, the second flight brought in 184 Russians, 15 Belarus nationals, 4 Ukranians, 1 Iranian and 1 Armenian passenger.
15 October 2009,The Times of India, Goa edition
More bodies of women found
More bodies of women found
TNN
PANAJI/VASCO/MAPUSA: The discovery of more bodies of women in Bardez taluka on Tuesday has baffled the police. While two partially burnt bodies were found on Monday, another body in a similar state was discovered on Tuesday. Besides, the police also found a fourth body with the head smashed on Tuesday.
On Tuesday morning, the halfburnt, semi-naked body of a woman suspected to be in her early twenties was discovered in an open, isolated area at Khorjuvem. Suspecting murder, police said the woman, reported to have Mongolian features, might have been murdered elsewhere and the body brought to the spot.
Incidentally, the woman’s body was left on the roadside although there are overgrown bushes a few metres away. Police suspect the woman could have recently got married as she had mehendi on her hands and sindoor on her forehead. Incidentally, rubber chappals were placed on her private parts and the body burnt.
In the other case, police found the decomposed body of a woman in some bushes near the government primary school at Succor, Bardez. The woman was wearing a green sari and blouse. Police have found blood stains in the school premises and said that the head had been smashed. Police believe the woman would be around 25 to 30 years old.
Police PRO, SP A V Deshpande said, “Don’t link the murders as it is still too premature. The only common thing is that all three are women and were burnt. Till the investigations reveal the real facts of the case, we cannot comment.”
While the half-burnt body found by the Old Goa police at Merces on Monday remains unidentified, the police have identified the body of a 16-year-old girl found burnt on Monday at an isolated spot at Verna. The body was identified after the girl’s mother, a Taleigao resident, approached the Panaji police to lodge a missing complaint.
Her daughter Evita Rodrigues, an open school student, had gone missing since Sunday morning. Evita had left the house after informing her mother that she would be going to her friend’s house at Santa Cruz and then the two of them would go to Vasco to see the exam centre. However, when her daughter didn’t return home at night, the mother phoned Evita’s friend only to learn that her daughter had never come to her place.
Admitting that it was a case of murder, Vasco DySP Mahesh Goankar raised concerns regarding the similarities in the cases of Evita and that of the woman with 50% burns found in Merces on Monday. In both the cases, polythene pieces were found near the body. Police have requested the Goa Medical College and Hospital to form a panel of doctors to conduct post mortems on all three women.
14 October 2009, The Times of India, Goa edition
TNN
PANAJI/VASCO/MAPUSA: The discovery of more bodies of women in Bardez taluka on Tuesday has baffled the police. While two partially burnt bodies were found on Monday, another body in a similar state was discovered on Tuesday. Besides, the police also found a fourth body with the head smashed on Tuesday.
On Tuesday morning, the halfburnt, semi-naked body of a woman suspected to be in her early twenties was discovered in an open, isolated area at Khorjuvem. Suspecting murder, police said the woman, reported to have Mongolian features, might have been murdered elsewhere and the body brought to the spot.
Incidentally, the woman’s body was left on the roadside although there are overgrown bushes a few metres away. Police suspect the woman could have recently got married as she had mehendi on her hands and sindoor on her forehead. Incidentally, rubber chappals were placed on her private parts and the body burnt.
In the other case, police found the decomposed body of a woman in some bushes near the government primary school at Succor, Bardez. The woman was wearing a green sari and blouse. Police have found blood stains in the school premises and said that the head had been smashed. Police believe the woman would be around 25 to 30 years old.
Police PRO, SP A V Deshpande said, “Don’t link the murders as it is still too premature. The only common thing is that all three are women and were burnt. Till the investigations reveal the real facts of the case, we cannot comment.”
While the half-burnt body found by the Old Goa police at Merces on Monday remains unidentified, the police have identified the body of a 16-year-old girl found burnt on Monday at an isolated spot at Verna. The body was identified after the girl’s mother, a Taleigao resident, approached the Panaji police to lodge a missing complaint.
Her daughter Evita Rodrigues, an open school student, had gone missing since Sunday morning. Evita had left the house after informing her mother that she would be going to her friend’s house at Santa Cruz and then the two of them would go to Vasco to see the exam centre. However, when her daughter didn’t return home at night, the mother phoned Evita’s friend only to learn that her daughter had never come to her place.
Admitting that it was a case of murder, Vasco DySP Mahesh Goankar raised concerns regarding the similarities in the cases of Evita and that of the woman with 50% burns found in Merces on Monday. In both the cases, polythene pieces were found near the body. Police have requested the Goa Medical College and Hospital to form a panel of doctors to conduct post mortems on all three women.
14 October 2009, The Times of India, Goa edition
Affidavit details steps to improve Apna Ghar facilities
Affidavit details steps to improve Apna Ghar facilities
TNN
PANAJI: The department of women and child development (DWCD) on Monday filed an affidavit and apprised the high court of Bombay at Goa about the steps taken for improving living conditions of the inmates of Apna Ghar, a children's protective home at Merces.
DWCD director Sanjiv Gadkar filed the affidavit in reply to a list of recommendations and immediate measures to be undertaken by the government as submitted before the court by amicus curiae Sandesh Padiyar on June 22.
The affidavit has been filed following a suo motu petition regarding the unhygienic conditions in which children at the Apna Ghar were forced to live.
The court had treated a report published in TOI on October 22, 2008, along with another report of the principal district and sessions judge, Panaji, as a public interest litigation and had appointed Padiyar as amicus curiae in the matter.
Gadkar has pointed out in his affidavit that as far as the security of the inmates is concerned, there are 20 caretakers and 4 security personnel at Apna Ghar. He also stated that two qualified counsellors would soon be appointed and revealed that the number of matrons and 'ayyas' has been increased to 7 and 14, respectively, from 3 of each.
Interestingly, the affidavit also disclosed "the inmates of the home often indulge in destructive activities and damage the furniture, fixtures, kitchen items including utensils, tables, etc, without any cause or reason".
Gadkar further stated that "it is difficult to prevent these activities as the inmates have access to these items and no control can be exercised for 24 hours of the day".
13 October 2009, The Times of India, Goa edition
TNN
PANAJI: The department of women and child development (DWCD) on Monday filed an affidavit and apprised the high court of Bombay at Goa about the steps taken for improving living conditions of the inmates of Apna Ghar, a children's protective home at Merces.
DWCD director Sanjiv Gadkar filed the affidavit in reply to a list of recommendations and immediate measures to be undertaken by the government as submitted before the court by amicus curiae Sandesh Padiyar on June 22.
The affidavit has been filed following a suo motu petition regarding the unhygienic conditions in which children at the Apna Ghar were forced to live.
The court had treated a report published in TOI on October 22, 2008, along with another report of the principal district and sessions judge, Panaji, as a public interest litigation and had appointed Padiyar as amicus curiae in the matter.
Gadkar has pointed out in his affidavit that as far as the security of the inmates is concerned, there are 20 caretakers and 4 security personnel at Apna Ghar. He also stated that two qualified counsellors would soon be appointed and revealed that the number of matrons and 'ayyas' has been increased to 7 and 14, respectively, from 3 of each.
Interestingly, the affidavit also disclosed "the inmates of the home often indulge in destructive activities and damage the furniture, fixtures, kitchen items including utensils, tables, etc, without any cause or reason".
Gadkar further stated that "it is difficult to prevent these activities as the inmates have access to these items and no control can be exercised for 24 hours of the day".
13 October 2009, The Times of India, Goa edition
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