Monday, June 7, 2010

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Goa govt celebrates completion of 3 years

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 08:26 AM PDT

Digamber Kamat-led Goa government is celebrating its three years in power in the backdrop of its former minister on the run who is wanted by police in connection with the death of a girl.

As the state government held a formal function to mark its three ’successful’ years in the power, Crime Branch continued searches at various places to trace former tourism minister Fransisco Mickey Pacheco, who resigned from the cabinet this Saturday and has been untraceable since then.

Kamat-led government had, however, taken enough precautions to keep away the shadow of minister-on-run from this glittery function held in Panaji.

Golden Glow, a book released by Kamat commemorating the third anniversary, has Pacheco missing in the photograph of the cabinet ministers.

“The book was printed last night,” Kamat told reporters.

Pacheco had resigned on Saturday after he was quizzed by Crime Branch for his alleged involvement in the death of his 28-year-old friend Nadia Torrado.

NCP legislator Pacheco, is however seen in the documentary made by Information and Broadcasting Ministry to commemorate completion of three years.

For the formal function, NCP was represented by their leader Jose Philip D’Souza.

Courtesy:NDTV

In hiding, Goa blast accused says can’t run on, will give up

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 02:17 AM PDT

Speaking to The Indian Express, one of the absconding accused in the Goa blast case has said he can't be constantly on the run and would be surrendering before the court at the earliest.


Prashant Ashtekar, 23, also admitted to have played a role in removing the hard disk of the computer being used by his brother Dhananjay, which the police claim had vital information about the circuits being prepared for engineering last October's Goa blast. Dhananjay was arrested in the case six months ago.

"I learnt about the charges slapped against me from newspapers. I can't be evading the police for a long time. I would be surrendering before the court soon and am hopeful of getting discharged," said Prashant.

On October 16, a bomb had gone off in a scooter in the commercial town of Margao in Goa, killing two Sanatan Sanstha activists Malgounda Patil and Yogesh Naik. Later, Vinayak Taklekar, an MBA who worked as an assistant HR manager with a seven-star hotel in Goa, Vinayak Patil, Dhananjay and Dilip Mangoankar were arrested. Prashant Ashtekar, Prashant Juvekar, Sarang Akolkar and Jaiprakash Putturu were declared wanted. Police believed the motive behind the blast was to spark communal violence in the state.

Courtesy:Indian Express
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