Goa: FIR against Chandor midnight protest convenors

At the protest in Chandor. (Express Photo by Smita Nair)

The Goa Police have filed an FIR and booked convenors of two NGOs — Goyat Kolso Naka and Goencho Ekvott — for illegal meeting and wrongful restraint.

Confirming the sections, Pankaj Singh, South Goa SP added, “We will probe in detail. The sections for now are against the six convenors of the two NGOS.”

On Sunday, over 3,000 Goans had come out at midnight to protest against the double monitoring of the railway line off Chandor, in what they concern is for enlargement of coal wagons.

The midnight vigil was by Goan villagers who sat with candles on the railway tracks. Political occasion teams which tried to “hijack” the “people’s movement” had been requested to decrease their flags.

The FIR was registered within the night by Maina Curtorim police and likewise features a part on rioting.

The protest had taken place between 10:30 pm to five am on Monday morning.

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