- Lucas Carvalho admits to putting ‘Cross’ on idol to celebrate winning of football match by Portuguese team !
- Such pro-Portuguese and anti-Hindu Christians should be driven away to Portugal !
Sange (Goa) : On 11th July, it was observed that a rosary with Christian’s Cross was put on the idol of Shri Siddheshwar at Uge, Sange. Police have arrested Lucas Carvalho (age – 44 yrs) in this connection. On inquiry, he has admitted to doing such wrong deed and said that he did it to celebrate victory of Portuguese team in a football match.
Owing to alertness of members of ‘Mahila Mandal’ and local residents, suspect could be quickly nabbed
On 11th July in the morning, temple-priest did ‘abhishek’ and ‘puja’ in the temple and went home in the afternoon after performing ‘aarti’. This misdeed was done between 2.00 p.m. and 4.00 p.m.. In the evening, as women came to the temple for the meeting of their committee, they observed it and told the same to all local residents. News spread even in surrounding places and around 1000 local residents, trustees of the temple, MLA Subhash Faldesai of Sange, Panch Ameya Desai, Shiv Sena leader Baburao Naik etc. gathered near temple area. Local residents expressed strong doubt over Lucas Carvalho. They lodged a complaint that the act was purposely done to hurt religious sentiments of Hindus. The complaint was lodged with police station by Shri Siddheshwar Devasthan’s Secretary Suresh Bhandari. Police Inspector Uttar Raut Desai reached the place of incident with his staff and did ‘panchanama’. Later, Lucas Carvalho was taken into custody on the suspicion expressed by local residents.
Devasthan Samiti and residents have expressed anger over the incident. They have demanded that it should be found out that who had asked Lucas to do such thing. Devasthan Samiti has decided to sanctify the idol after this incident and appealed to people to keep calm.
Take stringent action against the guilty ! – HJS
Matter of a suspect named Lucas Carvalho putting rosary on the idol of the Deity at Shri Siddheshwar Devasthan, Uge, Sange is quite serious. Police should find out the mastermind behind this incident. Many incidents of theft in temples and damaging of idols have taken place earlier in Sange taluka and all over the State and everyone knows that the State Government and police have totally failed to nab the culprits. It is necessary for police to find whether there is any link between the cases of theft; damaging of idols which had occurred in the past and the present incident of putting rosary on Deity’s idol. The incident at Shri Siddheshwar Mandir is an example of how minority population oppresses majority Hindus and the Government should not overlook the same keeping an eye on their votes, is the demand made by Dr. Manoj Solanki, the State Coordinator of Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) for Goa through a press release.
Source : Dainik Sanatan Prabhat
