The circus is complete. Goa has fallen into absolute lawlessness. The state machinery has collapsed — not under pressure from outsiders, but because the very people sworn to uphold the law have turned it into a joke.
Anti-social elements roam free. Gangsters rule the streets. And those in uniform — the ones meant to protect — have become no different from the goons they’re supposed to stop.
At the top of this rot sits Chief Minister Pramod Sawant — the ringmaster of this circus. As both Chief Minister and Home Minister, he bears full responsibility for the state’s descent into chaos. His right-hand man, Director General of Police Alok Kumar, and the two so-called District Superintendents of Police, Rahul Gupta and Tikam Singh Verma, have turned Goa’s policing into a national embarrassment.
Crime Everywhere. Justice Nowhere.
The facts speak for themselves.
Gang wars in Mungul. Daylight assaults on social activists like Rama Kankonkar. Shots fired in North Goa. And now, a man beaten nearly to death inside a police station — not by criminals, but by the police themselves.
On the evening of October 22nd, while FC Goa played against Al-Nasar, police were using Edberg Pereira for boxing practice. Police picked up Edberg Pereira from Navelim. Within minutes of reaching the Margao Town Police Station, he was allegedly used as a punching bag by PSI Nilesh Shirvoikar and other policemen.
He left that station not on his feet, not a stretcher, but two policemen holding his legs and arms and dumping him into the police jeep — rushing to South Goa District Hospital and then to Goa Medical College. GMC doctors registered it as a “case of assault” and found a subdural hematoma — a blood clot in the brain. He is now fighting for his life in the Neurosurgery Ward.
The next day, SP Tikam Singh Verma suspended PSI Shirvoikar. But when the public backlash grew, Verma changed his tune, claiming Pereira had “lost balance and fallen.”
If it were a fall, why the suspension?
If it was an accident, why did doctors mark it as assault?
And where is the CCTV footage? Why hasn’t the family or the media seen it?
Because the truth cannot survive sunlight — and they know it.
Clueless Leadership, Collapsed Policing
SPs Verma and Gupta have no control, no discipline, and no understanding of policing. They are detached, directionless, and dangerously unfit for their posts. They have failed to maintain law and order, failed to protect citizens, and failed to command respect within their own ranks.
Goa’s own officers — those who rose through the grind of real fieldwork, who understand the people and the pulse of the streets — have been pushed aside. They know the networks, the informers, the terrain. They could have handled this mess. But instead, the “ghatti” Chief Minister and his handpicked non-Goan officers have sidelined them, choosing loyalty over competence.
Accountability Can’t Wait
Under Pramod Sawant’s regime, Goa has become a state without law. Crime is rising, public trust is broken, and the police are either silent or complicit.
Enough of excuses. Enough of cover-ups.
DGP Alok Kumar, SP Rahul Gupta, and SP Tikam Singh Verma have failed in every measure of duty and integrity. They should resign immediately — or be sacked. And if they still have a shred of dignity left, they should hang up their boots and get out of Goa’s policing system for good.
The people of Goa deserve a police force that serves them — not one that terrorizes them.
They deserve a government that protects them — not one that shields the guilty.
This is not law and order.
This is lawlessness — sanctioned from the top.
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