NRI harassment case: Senior Goan cops summoned by HRC on Feb 1

The Goa Human Rights Commission (GHRC) has issuednotice tothe state police chief and two other officers and asked them to appear before it in connection with a complaint filed by an elderly Goan NRI alleging harassment by a Mumbai-based gang.
The Director General of Police, Superintendent of Police (North) and the Police Inspector of Mapusa town have been asked to remain present before the Commission on February 1.
The complainant, 73-year-old Francis de Souza, represented by advocate Aires Rodrigues, had petitioned GHRC after police allegedly failed to act on his complaint against the gang.
The senior citizen had complained that the gang had been threatening him to vacate his house at Siolim village in Mapusa police jurisdiction, which he had bought in 2011. He also alleged that police had failed to take cognizance of his complaint.

In his complaint, the NRI said that while he was on a holiday in November last, the gang members trespassed into his property breaking open the doors and threw out all hismovableandimmovableitems, and illegally took possession of the house following which a complaint was lodged at Mapusa police station.
He alleged that the police not only failed to protect his property but also connived with the accused.