IIT-Goa campus violence: Police file FIRs in opposition to protesters

Image Source : TWITTER/@FFFINDIA Villagers had been cane-charged by the police, after a authorities staff of survey officers escorted by the police had been pelted with stones by the protesters
Police in Goa on Thursday booked First Information Reports in reference to Wednesday night’s violence associated to the development of the IIT-Goa campus in North Goa’s Melaulim village.

Unknown individuals have been accused of rioting, assaulting police officers and stopping authorities officers from discharging their responsibility, after violence erupted in Melaulim over the method of survey and demarcation of land allotted to the IIT authorities for organising of the campus.

Villagers had been cane-charged by the police, after a authorities staff of survey officers escorted by the police had been pelted with stones by the protesters, tons of of whom had blocked highway entry to Melaulim village.

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has already said that those that have attacked police officers can be punished.

“Those who have taken law into their hands would be punished… The government will go ahead with the project,” Sawant mentioned, at the same time as villagers of Melaulim have demanded the dismissal of police officers concerned within the cane-charge, which they claimed was unprovoked.

Ever since an IIT was allotted to Goa by the Central authorities in 2014, the institute has been performing from a brief campus shared by the Goa Engineering College in Farmagudi village in South Goa.

Two websites beforehand recognized by the state authorities, in Canacona and Sanguem sub districts, for organising a everlasting campus for the IIT had been dropped within the face of protests from native residents and after stress from the Opposition, which had alleged a land rip-off in shortlisting of websites for the know-how institute.

The villagers of Melaulim declare that they’re being forcefully evicted from their landholdings by the federal government and have blamed the hurried land acquisition course of adopted by the authorities for securing the land for the IIT campus challenge.
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