The stage managed drama on the current renewal of those 28 mining leases is there for all to see. While Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has yesterday publicly stated that the recent High Court order on the renewal of those leases would not be challenged, the Advocate General Atmaram Nadkarni yesterday itself has blurted diametrically opposite claiming that the High Court order would be challenged before the Supreme Court.
Were it not as part of a pre-planned cooked strategy, how could the government have collected those 435 crores from those Mining barons when the whole issue was pending and under the scanner of the Supreme Court? Infact for some of the mine owners before the High Court they were indirectly represented by the Advocate General Atmaram Nadkarni though officially for the record it was one of his juniors acting as his tout. Even the appearance of the Advocate General for some mining companies, is causing great alarm and concern amongst the citizens and other mining companies. All that theatrical rhetoric that we heard in court was another Atmaram Nadkarni‘s cock and bull story to pull the wool over our eyes. How can an Advocate General who is a known legal messiah of the mining companies be able to give a fair and unadulterated advice to the Government on the mining issue and the mining policy? All those involved in Goa illegal mining loot are now seen lined up at the Atmaram Nadkarni’s private den on 18th June road being now mined deep as it can get by Atmaram Nadkarni and his cohorts. The Advocate General should never have been advising private parties nor appearing in cases in which he is likely to be called on to advice the Government. So also the so-called former juniors, who continue to function out of his plush office, though with alternate addresses published, should be checked. Their phone locations, their movements – in and out of the Advocate General’s office, the flow of clients from Atmaram Nadkarni’s office, onto their laps, ought to be investigated. Mahatma Gandhi had said “There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.” That is if only our very thick skinned Atmaram had a conscience! Atmarams are not known to have one. Are they? They pocket the ‘Dan and Dakshina' without being the ‘Dampatya’ ! Aires Rodrigues Advocate High Court C/G-2, Shopping Complex Ribandar Retreat, Ribandar – Goa – 403006 Mobile No: 9822684372 Office Tel No: (0832) 2444012 Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com Or airesrodrig...@yahoo.com You can also reach me on Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues Twitter@rodrigues_aires