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COMMENT: By now the bird will have flown, if ever it was at the particular address in Delhi! My reply: Q. 1: Do you think the bird is flown by a defense aircraft? Q.2: Where is the Law/rule that a Govt. and Court search warrant cannot be made in the defense area? Q.3: Since it is a residence of a Defense Minister, it is his duty to tell the person not to hide in his residence hence the question of searching him does not arise. DEV BOREM KORUM stephen Message: 9 Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 11:15:53 +0100 From: Gabe Menezes <[email protected]> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Subject: [Goanet] Searching Manohar Parrikar's residence will embarrass nation: Goa government Message-ID: <caafx5v5cbufosn9kznx3vkxzk5v1cmtxudvwfqyjhndwfrv...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://ibnlive.in.com/news/searching-manohar-parrikars-residence-will-embarrass-nation-goa-government/541611-37-64.html *Panaji:* A Goa court has stayed a warrant issued by a lower court to search the official residence of Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar in Delhi to trace convicted former state minister Francisco 'Miccky' Pacheco as the state government held that execution of the order will be an embarrassment to the nation. Pacheco has been convicted for assaulting a junior engineer. Seeking a stay on the lower court's order on warrant on Wednesday night, the BJP-led government submitted in the district court that searching the official residence of the Defence Minister would cause an "embarrassment to the nation." The state made the submission before the district court while challenging the order of Judicial Magistrate First Class who had issued the warrant to search 10, Akbar Road residence of Parrikar. Hours after JMFC, Bosco Roberts, issued the warrant to search 10, Akbar Road residence of Parrikar, district judge PV Sawaikar stayed its execution on the state government's appeal that the police cannot search Parrikar's house since it is a military property. Additional Public Prosecutor Mahesh Amonkar, appearing on behalf of the state, also told the court that "such a warrant would be embarrassment to the Defence Minister, the Prime Minister and the nation." He also said that there was no need for a separate search warrant for police as they have already been asked to arrest Pacheco. Social activist and lawyer Aires Rodrigues had last week approached the JMFC, Margao, submitting that Goa Police are not doing enough to track Pacheco and that there was "information" that Pacheco was "hiding" at 10, Akbar Road. Rodrigues, filing intervention application in the court on Thursday, objected to government lawyer Amonkar appearing on behalf of the state. He said Amonkar has been appointed as a High Court lawyer by government and is not authorised to represent the state in district court. The court fixed the next hearing in the case on April 27. The JMFC had issued a warrant of arrest against Pacheco, chief of Goa Vikas Party, a partner in the BJP-led government in the state, on April 9 as he has to undergo a six-month sentence for assaulting a junior engineer of the Electricity Department in 2006. The warrant was later extended by another five days, which ended yesterday. The former Rural Development Agency Minister had filed a review petition in the apex court against his conviction, which is yet to be admitted. COMMENT: By now the bird will have flown, if ever it was at the particular address in Delhi! -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E.C.A. DIAS Retired as TO (E-1) Former Scientist A-1 and Leader of GOD/INSTRUMENTATION Group CSIR- National Institute of Oceanography Dona Paula-Goa 403004 Email: [email protected] Tel" 0832-2452915 ( Res) Mob: (0) 9422443110
