- Amid a string of attacks on Africans in Delhi, Goa Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar on Monday demanded a strict law to deport Nigerians, claiming that they come in conflict with Indian law so as to extend their stay and indulge in drugs and other crimes.
- The BJP leader’s remarks come a day after a 39-year-old local woman was allegedly raped at knifepoint by a Nigerian at Parra village. An Ola cab driver in Delhi was also attacked by 6 African nationals on 30 May.
- “They try to stay in Goa or India and indulge in drugs and other unwanted things,” Parulekar said, while replying to a query on a spate of attacks on African nationals in Delhi, which are alleged to be racial in nature.
- Recalling an incident two years ago, in which a group of African nationals had blocked the national highway at Porvorim near Panaji over the murder of one of their countrymen, the minister said, “We should have a strict law where we can deport them. But unfortunately there is no such law in India at the moment.”
(With PTI inputs.)