From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji
Panaji, Jun 1: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) expects to dig out a bigger racket involving Goa policemen during their investigation into the drug nexus case, which has six policemen including a sub inspector arrested recently.
Five police constables were arrested yesterday for planting drugs on Israeli national David Driham alias Dudu. Police Sub Inspector Sunil Guddlar, who was arrested in the same offence few days back, is currently lodged in a judicial lock up.
All the five policemen have been placed under suspension while PSI was suspended soon after his arrest few days back.
Deputy Inspector General Pravinkumar Salunke told reporters in Panaji that the investigations are aiming to expose bigger nexus in which a particular police team was fabricating cases against people and arresting them.
The five police constables and PSI arrested, he said, were the part of raid conducted on Dudu in the year 2010 in which a cocktail of drugs was allegedly found on him. The foreign national had refused to be dealing in drugs and had alleged that the drugs were planted on him by the team of Anti Narcotic Cell of Goa Police.
Salunke said that the investigation records of the ANC team in Dudu case is not satisfactory. “We will have to find out why they fabricated case against Dudu. The investigations will be in the direction to find out why policemen were involved in such illegal act,” the DIG stated.
CBI has already recorded statement of then Superintendent of Police, Veenu Bansal, who was heading the ANC. Salunke said that statement of all the people who were involved in the investigation and part of the department would be recorded as a part of probe.
The investigations, he said, will also try to find out from where the drugs were sourced, which was planted on the people. “There are statements that the drug was taken from the police custody (malkhana),” the officer said, adding that the report of the drugs sent for forensic test at Central Forensic Science Labouratory at Hyderbad is yet to be received.