PANJIM: Goa Human Rights Commission (GHRC) will deliver on November 2 its order over the alleged Rs 51 lakh food scam at last year’s BRICS Summit held in Goa.
The High Court on August 21 had asked GHRC to specify whether it wants an inquiry or an investigation into the food scam and to specify the parameters.
Advocate Aires Rodrigues in his complaint to GHRC on October 14 last year submitted that the contract for Rs 51,60,000 was given to Amonkar Classic Caterers for supply of food to police personnel posted on duty for the BRICS summit but that the contract was sub-let to a roadside contractor who clandestinely prepared the food in an open place owned by the police department.
Rodrigues also stated that despite GHRC having more than once reminded the government that police personnel are human beings and should so be treated, the authorities had failed to make any proper arrangements including food, water and toilet facilities for them.
GHRC by an order on October 18 last year had directed that no payments should be released to the caterer pending inquiry into the entire episode.
