From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji

Panaji, Mar 9: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday, March 8 demanded that central agency should probe the association of few state police officers with drug peddlers in Goa.

“The matter is very serious. It should be thoroughly investigated. We feel that any central agency should investigate into it,” BJP Goa Unit President Laxmikant Parsekar told a news conference.

“There should be inquiry from unbiased agency,” he said adding that he has no faith in the inquiry by police department of its own officers.

Parsekar commented that the recent expose of policemen selling drug from the anti narcotic cell stores is a tip of an iceberg. “There is lot to it and we have been raising the issue in the state legislative assembly so often,” Parsekar, who is also MLA representing coastal Pernem taluka, said.

The BJP, which is main opposition in the legislative assembly, also demanded resignation of home minister Ravi Naik on the moral grounds.

Goa police had suspended five policemen including an officer of inspector’s rank for their alleged links with the drug-peddlers in the state.

Crime Branch had initiated inquiry into the entire episode after an Israeli drug peddler, Atala, confessed on a hidden camera, about his association with the policemen.