Panaji (Goa): Sitting Congress MLA Digambar Kamat skipped deposition before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in connection with probe into illegal con-donation. The politician, in a letter sent through his personal assistant requested the SIT to reschedule his questioning to Friday as he is unwell.

“We have received the letter wherein Kamat has said he is unwell and would appear on Friday,” SP Kartik Kashyap said.

The former chief minister and longest serving mines minister was issued a summons notice last week to appear for questioning at 10am today. Three days prior to his deposition day, Kamat moved the special court seeking anticipatory bail and was granted interim relief on Monday.

In the last weekend, the SIT conducted a futile search for the senior congress leader for his arrest as the court, by then, had not granted him any relief.

He is being probed into granting illegal con-donation to 40 mining leases, a case that also has politician Prafulla Hede as an accused. IAS officer Rajiv Yaduvanshi, who underwent six rounds of questioning, turned state approver alleging he was pressurized by Kamat to take decisions which were against the interest of the state.