PANJIM: Goa’s Health Minister Mr. Vishwajit Rane was on 12th January served the Supreme Court notice issued to him in the threat to kill case. The notice served at the Porvorim Secretariat gives Health Minister Vishwajit Rane 30 days to show cause in the Special Leave Petition filed in the Supreme Court against him by Adv. Aires Rodrigues in the threat to kill case.
Health Minister Mr. Vishwajit Rane is accused of having allegedly telephoned Adv. Aires Rodrigues on 31st July 2007 and threatened to kill him.
A Division bench of the Supreme Court of India comprising of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice Cyriac Joseph had on 13th Dec directed issuance of notices to Health Minister Mr. Vishwajit Rane along with the Chief Secretary of Goa and the Police Inspector of Old Goa Police Station. The matter will now come up for hearing before the Supreme Court next month.
In his petition before the Supreme Court Adv. Aires Rodrigues has challenged the Bombay High Court’s order which had quashed the charge sheet against Goa's Health Minister Mr. Vishwajit Rane in the threat to kill case.
A Division bench of the Bombay High Court at Goa comprising of Justice A.S. Oka and Justice F.M. Reis on 21st July last year while quashing the charge sheet against Health Minister Mr. Vishwajit Rane had held that an offence under Sec 506 ( threat to kill) of Indian Penal Code was non-cognizable.
Adv. Aires Rodrigues has in his petition before the Supreme Court challenged that decision of the High Court which had held that the Goa government had no powers to issue a notification making Sec 506 cognizable.
Incidentally Sec 506 was made cognizable by a notification issued by the Goa Government in 1973 when Mr. Pratapsingh Rane, father of Mr. Vishwajit Rane was the Law Minister. Over the years hundreds of persons have been charge sheeted and prosecuted under that section.
However when the Old Goa Police charge sheeted Health Minister Mr. Vishwajit Rane under Sec 506, the Goa Government suddenly took a stand that the section is non-cognizable. A controversial proposal was hurriedly moved on 30th June last year by Advocate General of Goa Mr. Subodh Kantak to instruct all Public Prosecutors to withdraw all cases filed by the police under Sec 506 of I.P.C as the section was non-cognizable.
The 73 page charge sheet was filed by the Old Goa Police against Health Minister Mr. Vishwajit under sec 506 of Indian Penal Code for allegedly having threatened on 31st July 2007 to kill Adv. Aires Rodrigues. The Old Goa Police in their charge sheet against Mr. Vishwajit Rane named nine witnesses including his own wife Mrs. Divya Rane.
It is time these corrupt Goa Politicians start getting punished for their crimes against the people and state of Goa.
ReplyDeleteGoans have suffered and are suffering, for too long from these Political and Police scumbags.
Being from the family of Ranes, does not give this idiot a license to threaten or kill.
This is goondaism in all its glory.
Look at the UK parlimentarians, even small allegation or unintended mistake, they quit with apology. Here in India, the bigger the crime,the bigger the MLA or MP. In Goa, the greatness of a person is judged by the number of crimes he has comitted.
ReplyDeleteAnd SHE too, not just HE as not to exclude Victoria Fernandes, Valanka, Viola and Jenifer or Lucifer Monserrate)