GOA MINISTER MAUVIN GODINHO’S TRIAL IN POWER SCAM CASE TO START ON MAY 3
By Our Chief Reporter Panaji (Goa) North Goa Principal Sessions Judge Irshad Agha has today directed Goa’s Panchayat Minister Mauvin Godinho and the six other accused to remain present in Court on May 3rd at 10 am to face trial in the infamous 2001 multi crore Power Scam case. On 17th January this year…
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DISTRICT MINERAL FOUNDATION MEMBERS SHOULD VISIT MINING AFFECTED AREAS: HC
By Our Chief Reporter Panaji (Goa) Goa Bench of Bombay High Court today asked the members of District Mineral Foundation to visit the mining affected areas and ascertain requirement of those areas. The Division Bench of the High Court comprising of Justices Prithviraj Chavan and N M Jamdar today granted two weeks time for…
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GOA: CALANGUTE POLICE BUSTS PROSTITUTION RACKET RESCUES FIVE GIRLS INCLUDING FOREIGNERS
By Our Chief Reporter Calangute (Goa) In a major breakthrough Calangute police have successfully busted a international prostitution racket at Candolim and rescued 05 victim girls including 03 foreign national victim girls. As per PI Jivba Dalvi reliable information was received through sources that one pimp is operating from a guest house at Bamonwado, Candolim,…
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FINAL HEARING IN SCARLETTE CASE ON APRIL 12 BEFORE HIGH COURT
By Our Chief Reporter Panaji (Goa) Goa Bench of Bombay High Court has fixed the final hearing in connection with the death of British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling on April 12 in which Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has challenged the decision of the lower court to acquit the accused. The double bench of…
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KARWAR MLA SANTEESH SAIL SKIPS CRIME BRANCH SUMMONS
By Our Chief Reporter Panaji (Goa) Karwar MLA Santeesh Sail who was summoned by the Crime Branch in connection with the illegal mining case today, skipped the summons. Sail was supposed to be present before the investigating officer today at 11 a.m.but did not turn up. A senior official said that the MLA has…
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GOA: POWER MINISTER PANDURANG MADKAIKAR’S MISSING FILE: AIRES LODGES F.I.R.
By Our Chief Reporter Old Goa Adv. Aires Rodrigues has today lodged a First Information Report (F.I.R) at the Old Goa Police Station against Mrs. Janita Madkaikar, Sarpanch of Se Old Goa Panchayat, Mr. Ashish Naik the Secretary of the Panchayat and Power Minister Pandurang Madkaikar over the missing file pertaining to the illegal 200 crore palacial bungalow recently built at Old Goa…
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GOA: SEX RACKET BUSTED IN COLVA
By Our News Editor COLVA Following a raid on Wednesday at around 10:00pm by the Colva police a Assam native, Diganta Kalita aged 25 years was nabbed, the police also rescued a 29-year-old Gujarati girl who was allegedly pushed into prostitution. Colva police team comprising of PI Filomeno Costa, HC Vasant Velip, PC Ajay Naik, Somnath Naik and LPC Dipashvi Malik…
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GOA: GU ENGINEER CAUGHT RED HANDED WHILE ACCEPTING BRIBE
By Our Staff Reporter PANAJI The Anti-Corruption Branch of Goa Police caught Goa University executive engineer Amit Shrivastava while accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 at Dona Paula. Shrivastava had demanded the bribe from the owner of Panorama Enterprises, who had bagged the contract for housekeeping of Goa University complex buildings in July last year. The complaint was lodged by Gopi Peket…
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SALMAN KHAN CONVICTED FOR KILLING BLACKBUCKS IN JODHPUR
By Our Chief Reporter Jodhpur: A Jodhpur court today convicted Bollywood star Salman Khan for killing two blackbucks in October 1998 but acquitted his colleagues Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Neelam and Sonali Bendre, a prosecution lawyer said. A fifth person, Dushyant Singh, a local from the area, has also been acquitted, Mahipal Bishnoi, the prosecution counsel, told…
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GOA: UK NATIONAL CAUGHT RED HANDED WITH GANJA AT COVALE CENTRAL JAIL
MAPUSA: A UK national visiting an inmate at the Central jail at Colvale, was caught red-handed with 13g of ganja at the police security frisking point, on Tuesday. The accused was arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) and handed over to the Mapusa police. The accused Dominic Vincent (51) was visiting inmate Andrew Gian around noon on…
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