CANDOLIM: Fisherfolk from Candolim are upset over sale of fish door-to-door by two-wheeler-borne vendors in the village. On Monday, there was an incident wherein a woman vendor, selling fish by going around on a two-wheeler, was objected to by some women fish vendors. This resulted into a police complaint being lodged by the victim vendor at Calangute police station.
According to Calangute police sources, the vendor from Nerul has complained alleging that some women vendors from Candolim stopped her from selling fish at Orda and pushed her fish basket and also assaulted her, due to which she suffered a loss of around Rs 2000.
On late Tuesday evening, vendors from Candolim approached the police to lodge a counter complaint alleging that they were ‘manhandled’ after a complaint against them by the Nerul vendor.
They alleged that an unidentified policeman and another person caught their hands and asked them to come at the police station.
Rita Fernandes, a vendor from Candolim fish market, who was at the police station, told this daily that vendors from other villages, especially Nerul, come to Candolim to sell fish and thus they were getting less customers.
She further said that women vendors from Candolim had written to the panchayat and the police in the past about the issue.
Sources from Candolim panchayat informed that fish vendors from other areas, especially scooter-borne, are not allowed in the village by local fishermen and that this has been a long pending issue.
Meanwhile, Calangute police have filed a non cognizable offence under Sections 504, 427 readwith 34 of IPC following the complaint from Rodrigues. Head constable Keshav is the investigating officer.