Goa: Raid on vegetable supply leaves complex residents fuming

PANAJI

: A housing society in Ribandar conducting humanitarian service by bringing in an authorised

government

vendor to deliver

vegetables

to more than 100 of its residents was raided by government officials of seven departments led by the

CCP

officials on Friday morning.


The raid took the residents of Milroc ribandar retreat housing maintenance cooperative society, who had already received approval from the North Goa Collector, by surprise. “Around 26 officials from CCP, talathi, Panaji police station,

FDA

, weights and measures, civil supplies and commercial taxes conducted a filmy-style raid. The police arrived before 9 am and all the other officials by 9.30—in record time for government officials— and seized the vegetables without following any procedure and without producing any

complaint

or letter,” coordinator of the society Amit Chopra said.

“We are volunteers with authorised passes and were arranging for vegetables from a government authorised vendor for the society residents. The officials who showed up acted like we were conducting some illegal activity,” Chopra added.

Panaji mayor Uday Madkaikar said the raid was conducted following a complaint filed by social activist Aires Rodrigues, and added that he wasn’t aware about the details. Tiswadi incident commissioner and deputy collector Vivek HP initiated an inquiry into the incident .

“After a site inspection, I submitted a report to the collector highlighting that this is a humanitarian service, and no commercial activity was happening,” he told TOI.

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