PANAJI
The Verna police are probing a complaint of violation of CRZ filed by one Aleixo Pereira alleging a violation of the provisions of the Coastal Regulation Zone at the Utorda beach in Salcete.
Pereira in his complaint has blamed two persons Agnelo Pereira and João C Pereira, who, he says, have “dumped black metal stones, red, rubble stones in the eco-sensitive intertidal zone in CRZ I designated at Utorda beach, besides two huge concrete pipes were dumped. “The activities are taking place without any permission from the Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority. Such activities of building concrete bridges and use of ready concrete pipes are prohibited activity in CRZ I and is a violation of the CRZ notification 2011,” Aleixo Pereira said in his complaint.
When contacted the PI of Verna Police Station Ninad Deulkar informed that they were conducting the preliminary inquiry and depending on the findings the case would be registered.
Aleixo Pereira said the activity took place on Monday, April 30, and that he filed the complaint the very next day of the incident and that he feared for his life having been previously been brutally attacked for his environmental and other activism.
