Stock Guru scam: Court extends Ullhas PC, to be taken to Goa

Delhi Police told that he has to be taken to Goa, Mumbai and Ratnagiri to recover documents, hard disks and other evidence after when the police custody of Ullas Prabhakar, an accused in the multicrore Stock Guru Scam case, has extended by the court. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pulastya Pramachala extended Ullas’ police custody till  [ Read More ]

Goa govt contemplates cancelling 40 mining leases

The Goa Government is planning to cancel 40 mining leases in the State that were granted during the erstwhile Congress-led regime. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar told the Legislative Assembly today that the State Government has already moved a file for legal advice on issuing notice to owners of 40 mining leases, whose delay in applying  [ Read More ]

Goa to pass Lokayukta law this week: Digambar Kamat

The Goa government will present and pass its own Lokayukta law in the two-day legislative assembly session starting Oct 5, Chief Minister Digambar Kamat said Monday.   Speaking to reporters after the Congress-led government’s cabinet meeting, Kamat said that the council of ministers had approved the Lok Ayukta Bill. It ‘would be tabled and passed  [ Read More ]

‘Goa chief minister anti-tribal’

Tribal leaders here Monday accused Chief Minister Digambar Kamat of being “anti-tribal” and protecting the killers of two tribal activists during a May rally this year. Speaking to reporters during a day-long tribal protest here, convenor of the United Tribal Associations Alliance (UTAA), Prakash Velip, said that Kamat’s disinterest in tribal welfare affairs was obvious  [ Read More ]

Foreign child abusers operating in Goa: Church

Goa is becoming a child sex trade hub after Thailand’s crackdown on its thriving child abuse industry, Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao said on Saturday. “Till recently, Thailand was considered to be the capital of the child sex tourism industry in this part of the world. It is now known how the Thai government, pushed by  [ Read More ]

Tribals on rail and road blockade in Goa

Nearly 10,000 tribals from Goa’s southern regions Wednesday laid siege to the National Highway 17 for nearly three hours and blocked a New Delhi bound Rajdhani Express passenger train, demanding that the state government honour constitutional rights conferred on tribals. The road and rail blockade was carried out at three places in South Goa district  [ Read More ]

CBI can’t probe Goa drug nexus, high court told

The police-politician-drug mafia nexus case cannot be investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as it ‘lacks manpower’ and has ‘constraints of local language’, its officials Tuesday told the Panaji bench of the Bombay High Court. The federal investigation agency said this in a letter issued to the union ministry of personnel which was  [ Read More ]

Goa ‘custody’ death: Victim’s kin refuse to claim body

The kin of a non-resident Indian chef, who died allegedly after being beaten up in police custody earlier this month, have refused to claim his body from a government morgue until the policemen responsible for his killing are punished. Police have denied the charge of custodial death. Speaking to reporters in Panaji, Cosme Fernandes, a  [ Read More ]