Police-drug nexus: Probe against cop who alerted about arrests

Goa police has initiated an inquiry against the Crime Branch official who alerted his colleagues about their arrests in the police-drug peddler nexus case.

Panaji: Goa police has initiated an
inquiry against the Crime Branch official who alerted his
colleagues about their arrests in the police-drug peddler
nexus case.

Police sources said that the official, whose identity
has been withheld, had alerted three out of six policemen
about the arrest warrants against them.

"One of the constables, Sanjay Parab, who is still
absconding was also alerted by this policeman. We have got his
phone details and he will be punished, if he is found guilty,"
a senior police officer said.

Parab himself is attached with the Crime branch and
has managed to avoid arrest while rest of the five policemen
are being probed in the police custody.

Six policemen including suspended Inspector Ashish
Shirodkar were arrested by Crime Branch after an Israeli drug
peddler Yaniv Benaim alias Atala claimed that Shirodkar was
stealing drugs from the court lockers.

The investigation in the nexus had made startling
revelations. Public Prosecutor Shiral Monteiro told the court
recently that constable Ramchandra Canaconkar, one among the
six policemen, had made 400 calls to Atala.

The Crime Branch has also started taking stock of the
`malkhana`, a place where seized drugs are stored. Officials
said that the drugs seized during last ten years have not been
destroyed and are still lying there, even as the related cases
are disposed off by the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances (NDPS) court.

-PTI

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