ACB DECLINES TO FURNISH RTI INFO ON PROBE INTO GOA BEACH CLEANING SCAM

The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) has declined to furnish the information sought under RTI on the current probe into the alleged multi crore scam in the tender of comprehensive management of cleanliness of Goa beaches. ACB’s Deputy Superintendent of Police and Public Information Officer while declining to furnish the information under Section 8(1) (h) of the […]

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WILL HIGH COURT FUSE OFF GOA CIC PRASHANT TENDOLKAR’S ILLEGAL RED BEACON ?

A contempt of Court petition has today been filed before the Bombay High Court at Goa over the illegal use of the red beacon by Goa’s Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) Prashant Prabhu Tendolkar. The letter petition was mentioned today before a Division Bench comprising of Justice F.M.Reis and Justice K.L.Wadane who agreed to examine the […]

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GOA’S SINKING BJP

The sinking Goa BJP has taken aboard as its Vice-President the very awfully tainted Anil Hoble who has been certified by the Court as a destroyer of mangroves and a gross CRZ violator by having done rampant land filling along the Eco- sensitive Ribandar- Panaji causeway. The BJP’s dubious setting, fixing and arm twisting gimmicks […]

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GHRC ASKS GOVERNMENT TO HIKE TRAVELLING ALLOWANCE OF COURT BAILIFFS FROM RS 200 TO RS 1000

  The Goa Human Rights Commission has today asked the Goa Government to consider increasing the travelling allowance being paid to the Court bailiffs in Goa from the current monthly Rs 200 to Rs 1000. The three member Goa Human Rights Commission headed by Justice P.K.Misra and comprising of retired District Judge A.D. Salkar and Mr. […]

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AS DEFIANT GOA CIC CONTINUES MISUSING RED BEACON, GOVT PUT ON NOTICE TO FACE CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS IN SUPREME COURT

With a defiant Goa Chief Information Commissioner Prashant Prabhu Tendolkar continuing to use the red beacon on his official vehicle GA-07-G-5555, the Goa government has today been put on notice to face contempt proceedings before the Supreme Court. In a letter jointly addressed to the Chief Secretary, DGP and the Director of Transport today, their attention […]

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