CCP corporator Karishetty surrenders
PANAJI - The CCP corporator Naguesh Karishetty, implicated by his own people
in the pay parking scam, surrendered at the Panaji town police at around
10.45 a.m on Monday and was subsequently arrested under sections 465 (making
false documents) and 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code. The under fire
CCP corporator was absconding since Friday.
The police inspector, Panaji town, Mr Francis Corte told 'The Navhind Times,'
"We arrested on the basis of statement implicating him." His bail
application was also rejected by JMFC court judge, Ms Kalpana Gawas on
Monday evening.
The police had argued for custodial interrogation to enable them to find out
where the tickets were printed or procured from and if there were any more
people involved. The police say that the statements of councillors who
lodged their complaints were recorded. Mr Rudresh Chodankar, another CCP
corporator blamed the municipality staff for failing to do their job. He
argued, "It is the duty of the municipality administrative staff once the
tender is over to re-tender or to send its own staff for collection," and
questioned why they had not done the same.
Another corporator, Mr Surendra Furtado felt that Karishetty had done a wise
thing by surrendering and felt that he should "speak the truth and inform
who else was involved in it and how long this was going on."
The arrested corporator will be produced for remand on Tuesday. The other
two persons named after the interrogation of the two earlier arrested
suspects who are allegedly involved in this scam - one of them, said to be
the manager and has returned to his native state and the other one allegedly
from Merces, are still to be arrested. The police say that they will
subsequently do so.
http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=062410
