Preetu Venugopalan Nair

Panaji, Nov 11 (TOI): Three cops have been found guilty by the State Police Complaints Authority (SPCA) of having "played an active role in a conspiracy" against a Colva mundkar to deprive the latter of their mundkarial rights.

Raising questions about the "crude and inhuman handling" and "total lack of professionalism and absolute perversion of the system" displayed by PI Uday Parab, PSI Kapil Naik and constable Arun Rane, SPCA, led by Justice Eurico Santana da Silva, observed that the "respondents have consciously prevaricated in the discharge of their statutory duties and grossly failed to faithfully perform their professional obligations. While doing so they seem to have willingly or unwillingly played an active role in a well-planned conspiracy plotted Panaji: Three cops have been found guilty by the State Police Complaints Authority (SPCA) of having "played an active role in a conspiracy" against a Colva mundkar to deprive the latter of their mundkarial rights.

Raising questions about the "crude and inhuman handling" and "total lack of professionalism and absolute perversion of the system" displayed by PI Uday Parab, PSI Kapil Naik and constable Arun Rane, SPCA, led by Justice Eurico Santana da Silva, observed that the "respondents have consciously prevaricated in the discharge of their statutory duties and grossly failed to faithfully perform their professional obligations. While doing so they seem to have willingly or unwillingly played an active role in a well-planned conspiracy plotted against the petitioners in order to deprive them of their legitimate rights of mundkarship, in spite of these rights having been judicially acknowledged by the highest court of the state."

Observing that there is a "strange mixture of twisted half-truths and untruths" which flow from the statements made by the cops, coupled with a "show of arrogance and irresponsible behaviour", SPCA said there is sufficient evidence to indict all theree for "acts of serious misconduct, deliberate bending of the statutory rules of procedure and gross abuse of authority".

The police department has been asked to initiate disciplinary or criminal proceedings against the three and the DGP has to submit a detailed compliance report to SPCA by November 23.