Panaji: Goa police have identified the woman who allegedly raised slogans hurting sentiments of the Hindu community during the CJP’s protest in Panaji on Oct 11.The woman appeared before Panaji police on Friday.SP (North Goa) Rahul Gupta said, “She did not cooperate and we could not examine her. She will be called again for investigation.”Goa police on Oct 17 registered an FIR against 300 unidentified protesters who took part in a CJP protest, alleging they raised slogans that hurt Hindu sentiments.“During a public protest organised, the functionaries and supporters of CJP raised slogans such as ‘Murdabad, Murdabad, Hindutva Murdabad’, thereby promoting religious disharmony and deliberately hurting the religious sentiments of the Hindu community,” Panaji police inspector Vijaykumar Chodankar said in the FIR.He said police registered the case under Sections 196 and 299 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, for religious disharmony and a deliberate attempt to outrage religious feelings.Earlier, chief minister Pramod Sawant had said the incident is under investigation and govt would not tolerate attempts to disturb communal harmony in the state.Ramprasad Kelkar, a resident of Taleigao, filed the FIR after citing a video of the Oct 11 protest circulated on social media.“I have seen the video… members of CJP had organised a protest against CEC Gyanesh Kumar, demanding his resignation for discrepancies in the SIR and deleting names from the electoral roll in the country. As per local news reports, it also came to my notice that one lady coordinator of CJP had applied for permission before the North Goa collector, and it was rejected,” Kelkar said in his complaint.He said the organisers said it was peaceful. “However, it was noticed that the protesters were raising slogans against Hindus… which shows the protest was organised to disturb harmony and peace in society and the locality,” Kelkar said.
