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Goa bans partying after midnight
POLICE in India's resort state of Goa have begun shutting down beach parties and bars at midnight, a month after a British teen was murdered.
Officials ordered the crackdown on Goa's party culture after police said 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling was raped and left for dead by two men after she consumed a cocktail of illegal drugs at a beach cafe where she was hanging out late into the night.
Goan police this month arrested Samson D'Souza, 29, a bartender at the cafe, and alleged drug dealer Placido Carvalho for Keeling's murder.
"We are not allowing anything beyond midnight. These are strict orders to the police," said Goa state official J.P. Singh.
Special police teams were roaming the beaches this week to catch bar owners violating the ban and to round up suspicious characters.
About 100 people have been detained so far, officials said.
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Bar owners complained about the new restrictions, saying they would tarnish Goa's image as a free-wheeling oasis in strait-laced India, but said they would comply.
"This will affect our business but we have no option," said Alovino Gomes, who runs a cafe on the popular Calangute beach that is popular with foreigners, who flock to Goa for beach dance parties that run until dawn.
"We don't entertain drugs here. The business we do is sober," added Gomes, pointing to a sign in his establishment that reads "No Drugs please!"
Shops with licences to serve liquor beyond midnight are also being ordered to close early.
The Lui cafe, the bar where Keeling was last seen a few hours before her bruised body was found on Goa's Anjuna beach on February 18, has been shut down, officials confirmed.
Goa's chief minister Digambar Kamat told reporters on Tuesday that the resort state was the nation's safest tourist destination. About 2.2 million tourists visit Goa each year, including about 400,000 foreigners.
Police in Goa say only a handful of sexual assaults on tourists have taken place this year – including the rape of another British woman in January.
But India has been increasingly concerned about the safety of female visitors around the country, with many saying they have been the victims of unwanted attention or outright assaults by Indian men.
Fiona MacKeown, the mother of the dead teenager, questioned whether the increased police presence on beaches would make tourists safer.
"If they can find officers to patrol beaches who aren't rapists themselves and can't be bought off, then great," said MacKeown, according to a report in the Hindustan Times on Wednesday.
MacKeown has accused local police, who initially called Keeling's death a drowning, of trying to cover up a murder and concealing links between police officials, politicians and drug dealers.
The 43-year-old mother of nine, who brought seven of her children to Goa for six months in November, has come in for criticism herself for going off to holiday in another state, leaving Keeling behind with a boyfriend in Goa.
Source: http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,26058,23406841-5014090,00.html
En me promenant sur le net je suis tombé sur ça:
Goa bans partying after midnight
POLICE in India's resort state of Goa have begun shutting down beach parties and bars at midnight, a month after a British teen was murdered.
Officials ordered the crackdown on Goa's party culture after police said 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling was raped and left for dead by two men after she consumed a cocktail of illegal drugs at a beach cafe where she was hanging out late into the night.
Goan police this month arrested Samson D'Souza, 29, a bartender at the cafe, and alleged drug dealer Placido Carvalho for Keeling's murder.
"We are not allowing anything beyond midnight. These are strict orders to the police," said Goa state official J.P. Singh.
Special police teams were roaming the beaches this week to catch bar owners violating the ban and to round up suspicious characters.
About 100 people have been detained so far, officials said.
Related Sections
* Travel News
* Travel Homepage
Bar owners complained about the new restrictions, saying they would tarnish Goa's image as a free-wheeling oasis in strait-laced India, but said they would comply.
"This will affect our business but we have no option," said Alovino Gomes, who runs a cafe on the popular Calangute beach that is popular with foreigners, who flock to Goa for beach dance parties that run until dawn.
"We don't entertain drugs here. The business we do is sober," added Gomes, pointing to a sign in his establishment that reads "No Drugs please!"
Shops with licences to serve liquor beyond midnight are also being ordered to close early.
The Lui cafe, the bar where Keeling was last seen a few hours before her bruised body was found on Goa's Anjuna beach on February 18, has been shut down, officials confirmed.
Goa's chief minister Digambar Kamat told reporters on Tuesday that the resort state was the nation's safest tourist destination. About 2.2 million tourists visit Goa each year, including about 400,000 foreigners.
Police in Goa say only a handful of sexual assaults on tourists have taken place this year – including the rape of another British woman in January.
But India has been increasingly concerned about the safety of female visitors around the country, with many saying they have been the victims of unwanted attention or outright assaults by Indian men.
Fiona MacKeown, the mother of the dead teenager, questioned whether the increased police presence on beaches would make tourists safer.
"If they can find officers to patrol beaches who aren't rapists themselves and can't be bought off, then great," said MacKeown, according to a report in the Hindustan Times on Wednesday.
MacKeown has accused local police, who initially called Keeling's death a drowning, of trying to cover up a murder and concealing links between police officials, politicians and drug dealers.
The 43-year-old mother of nine, who brought seven of her children to Goa for six months in November, has come in for criticism herself for going off to holiday in another state, leaving Keeling behind with a boyfriend in Goa.
Source: http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,26058,23406841-5014090,00.html