panaji panaji police have sought custodial interrogation of goa foundation director claude alvares after he was booked for locking up the office premises of the directorate of mines last month the police in their reply on alvares application for anticipatory bail stated that his custodial interrogation is required to recover the banner and to trace other absconding persons the place of printing of the bannerboard source of material and source of the finance for the same has to be known as such custodial interrogation of the applicant is required vivek harlarnkar psi panaji police station stated in his reply and opposed the granting of anticipatory bail to alvares he added that alvares has no fear of law and will instigate other agitators to commit similar kinds of offences in future in his bail application alvares stated that he apprehends he will be arrested due to political pressure and in an attempt to subdue him and prevent him from taking up issues and concerns of environment of goa he further stated that he is being targeted due to his involvement in many environmental issues in the state more particularly due to his filing of a public interest litigation in the supreme court on the mining illegalities in goa he also stated that he does not have any criminal antecedents and apprehends that he will be falsely implicated in the offences which are concocted and maliciouspanaji police had registered an fir for committing wrongful restraint wrongful confinement use of criminal force to deter public servants from discharge of duty and mischief causing damage to public property frustrated over the governments inability to resume sustainable mining through a corporation and the lack of interest in recovering lost revenue incurred by the state due to allegedly illegal mining operations alvares symbolically locked the directorate of mines and geology office in may and handed over the keys to goa police the token protest found support from the antipda agitators at azad maidan and drew cheers from bystanders a new banner was put up outside the department that stated directorate of illegal mines and geology