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CHIEF MINISTER Pramod Sawant on Monday said that maximum crimes in Goa are committed by migrant labourers, and appealed to contractors and employers to obtain a labour card before engaging them for work in the state...
Goa DGP Jaspal Singh did not respond to a request from The Indian Express for comments on whether the police maintain data on crimes committed by migrant labourers or crimes as per domicile of the accused..
The facilities shall be made available online soon, he said.. Sawant said that once migrant labourers are registered with the labour department, the government will have a database of their respective addresses and it can help police to investigate or track any case if required..
In March, after a 27-year-old employee of a resort, who hailed from Uttarakhand, was arrested for allegedly molesting and stabbing a Dutch woman tourist at a resort in North Goa, Sawant had instructed all hotels to obtain a Goa labour card for their staffers..
After two incidents of hotel staff attacking foreign nationals in Goa in March, state Tourism Minister Rohan Khaunte had said that police verification of workers at hotels and resorts, especially those employing people from outside the state, shall be conducted...
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