PANAJI (GOA)
A bench of the Supreme Court comprising of Justice N.V.Ramana and Justice S. Abdul Nazeer today declined to give any relief to former Power Minister Mauvin Godinho in the infamous Power Scam case. Mauvin Godinho is currently the Panchayat Minister in the Manohar Parrikar led government. The Supreme Court today told Mauvin Godinho that he should argue his defence before the Special Court under the Prevention of Corruption Act in Goa.
Mauvin Godinho today withdrew the Special Leave Petition which he had filed in 2007 and had been pending in the Supreme Court for a decade. Mauvin Godinho had challenged the order passed by the Bombay High Court directing framing of charges against him in the multi-crore power scam case.
It may be recalled that by an order dated October 26, 2007, then Bombay High Court at Goa Justice Nelson Britto had directed framing of charges against Mauvin Godinho under Section 13(1) (d) (i) and (iii) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 read with Section 120B of the Indian Penal Code in connection with the alleged power scam case.
Justice Nelson Britto had in his order also noted that the charges against Mauvin Godinho came to be investigated and charge sheet filed based on a complaint filed by Manohar Parrikar and that it appeared that the case took different turns depending upon which government was in power in Goa.
On 3rd May 2011 a Bench of the Supreme Court comprising of Justice R.V.Raveendran and Justice H.L.Dattu had dismissed the Civil Appeal which was filed by Mauvin Godinho in the same matter.
