On 21 June 2010 09:47, Gabe Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > <http://www.targetgoa.com/images/news/> > > RTI is a potent weapon > > Advocate Aires Rodrigues has been attacked, assaulted, had his fingers > chopped off but he still soldiers on in what is increasingly looking like a > thankless job. The bad guys still rule, but this fireband activist continues > to stick his prominent chin out. *TARGET GOA* talks to him. > *What were the charges brought against you? > *A girl from my parish complained to her mother that the parish priest had > molested her. The mother came to me and we registered an FIR against the > parish priest. He was about to be arrested when he began ringing the church > bells. After that he brought charges against me saying that I brought a gang > of goondas to threaten him. After the charges were dismissed in the lower > court, they went in appeal in the High Court and lost there too. I am a > lawyer so I can fight this kind of harassment. But a layman would have to > pay through his nose. This drama lasted seven years. > > *What about the FIR against the priest? Where is he now? > *It was settled out of court. I hear compensation was paid to the victim. > The parish priest left the priesthood and I hear he got married and has > settled down in Canada. > > http://www.targetgoa.com/intd-RTI-is-a-potent-weapon-4 >
RESPONSE: At that time I had protested Aires' methods against the priest. It now transpires that I was wrong and that if the matter was settled out of Court then I owe an apology. I am sorry I doubted what had taken place and for my resistance at that time. > -- > DEV BOREM KORUM > > Gabe Menezes. >
