CRIMINAL MINDED INSPECTOR DATTAGURU SAWANT HEADING BJP POLITICALLY GEARED LOUIS BERGER PROBE

One does not have to be a genius to conclude that the current Louis Berger probe is an attempt by the BJP in Goa to keep the people distracted from the glaring acts of omission and omission of a miserably failed government

Anyone indulging in any corrupt practice should not be spared however high he may be and regardless to which political party he or she is affiliated. The Congress has been corrupt but things have only got worse over the last three and half years of the BJP rule in Goa and the 16 months that it has been in power at the centre. The BJP had promised Zero Tolerance to corruption and transparency by way of good governance. However, the ground reality is that we have landed from the frying pan into the fire. The only difference is that the Corruption by the Congress was out in the open for all to see, but the BJP has been engaging in it on a much larger scale but very discreetly masked and extremely subtly executed. The mind boggling assets acquired by the BJP leaders including Manohar Parrikar over the last three and half years  is testimony to the heightened levels of Corruption.

In 2013 to keep the people of Goa distracted and entertained from the follies and bad Governance, Manohar Parrikar enacted the Tarun Tejpal show with the Crime branch going all out to nail the Tehelka Editor-in-Chief while Manohar Parrikar led the tirade. The result will be known soon, a big Zero with lakhs if not over a crore of taxpayer’s money already squandered on that vicious political vendetta.

Now we are sought to be entertained with the Louis Berger show with once again Manohar Parrikar leading and directing the script of every skit, while the very credibility of the probe in question. The very tainted Investigating Officer Inspector Dattaguru Sawant is a known sidekick of Manohar Parrikar whom Manohar Parrikar as Chief Minister had in 2002 illegally inducted as a Police Sub- Inspector. Dattaguru Sawant with RSS credentials has had a very shoddy history as a Police officer who even came to be dismissed from service in 2004 for extorting money at Mapusa only to be reinstated in 2006 with the blessings and pressure exerted by his Messiah Manohar Parrikar as the Leader of the Opposition.

Dattaguru Sawant with his very strong BJP roots has been an integral part of the saffron brigade with a criminal record even before becoming a police officer after having sprinkled black ink on Congress Rajya Sabha MP Shantaram Naik. Less said the better on the consistent and repeated dubious record Of Dattaguru Sawant who has been accused of one too many wrong doings as a Police Officer. In 2013 as the Sub Inspector at the Konkan Railway Police Station at Margao Dattaguru Sawant slapped a fabricated case against a porter who refused to give him a free helmet which he had demanded. That is how low Dattaguru Sawant’s greed can stoop. For that high-handed act Dattaguru Sawant is currently being prosecuted before the Goa State Police Complaints Authority with Dattaguru Sawant having absconded for the hearings over the last few months. Despite his shady and extremely dubious record, Dattaguru Sawant managed to get himself promoted last year as Inspector courtesy his Guru Manohar Parrikar as Chief Minister.

For any probe to be credible, it has to be led by a credible and an upright officer.  With an awfully tainted officer Dattaguru Sawant, it will all end up only being a very blemished probe in which no one should be expected to have any faith in.

While the Louis Berger show is on, it is an irony that investigation into all the other pending cases at the Crime Branch have come to a standstill with BJP mission Louis Berger being the only agenda. Only time will tell whether like the Tarun Tejpal case, this one will also end up a fiasco and a big zero. With the probe into the 35,000 crore Mining loot deliberately and conveniently heading nowhere, the Crime Branch has now made this Louis Berger handful of crores a priority.

The people of Goa are watching the events and scenes of the Louis Berger drama as they unfold. Nobody can be above the law. But for now we know that though the law should always takes it own course,  it has not been so in the corruption cases against Manohar Parrikar, Dilip Parulekar, Rajendra Arlekar, Mahadev Naik and others in the saffron brigade. In the Mickky Pacheco saga he has been sought to be treated as a VIP even after his conviction being upheld by the Supreme Court.

The rule of law is a distant dream while politicians in power ensure that the law is made an Ass. And unless criminal minded corrupt officers like Dattaguru Sawant are not flushed out of the Goa Police, the rule of the jungle is here to say. God Save Goa’s Ruins.