SIT to probe Goa’s police-drug nexus

Goa Police on Friday constituted Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe into the alleged drug nexus of police, wherein a police sub-inspector was caught on spy camera negotiation with two women of foreign national over the sale of drugs.

The team, headed by Superintendent of Police (SP) Om Prakash Kurtakar will be supported by a Deputy SP, one inspector, sub-inspectors and others.

PSI (police sub inspector) Sunil Gudlar was suspended late on Thursday night after the first investigating agency ? Crime Branch in its inquiry report found him prima-facie guilty of dealing in drugs.

?The department wants special focus on this case, hence it was decided to form SIT to thoroughly investigate into the case. The fresh investigation has begun,? spokesperson SP Atmaram Deshpande said.

The spy-cam expose showing the former Goa Anti Narcotics Squad officer negotiating with an Israeli and Kazak women over the sale of charas came as a rude shock to Goa police.

Although, the decision of the PSI?s suspension came quite a few days after the expose by a local news channel, the department was quick enough to take cognizance of the matter and initiate an inquiry.

Ayala, sister of the imprisoned Israeli drug dealer David Driham alias Dudu in her statement to Crime Branch admitted of conducting the sting on PSI Gudlar, along with Dudu?s girlfriend Zarina in association with an Israeli agency.

Following this Gudlar faced an inquiry, report of which was submitted to the Director General of Police BS Bassi on Tuesday.

The two women in the sting said that they were anguished, as according to them ANC (Anti Narcotic Cell) had falsely implicated Dudu in the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) case.

This led them to carry out a sting operation on Gudlar, also as the latter would often demand them ?to bring some items from Israel.?

Dudu was caught with cocktail of narcotics from his residence at Anjuna in February 2010. Since then he is lodged at Vasco sub-jail.

A copy of the tapes, which was released in series by the news channel, was first handed over to the state Home Minister Ravi Naik wherein Gudlar is also shown speaking about his senior accepting bribe.

The department has meanwhile issued summons on former ANC SP Veenu Bansal as his name also figures out in the alleged police-drug nexus. The officer, currently with Arunchal Pradesh police, was not available for comments.