Mickky visited my office: Notary
HERALD REPORTER
MARGAO, JUNE 20
Even as the police checked and verified documents and records in his office late last night, city-based notary, Adv Joey Rodrigues has said that former tourism minister Mickky Pacheco had come to his office for notarizing his affidavit which was filed in the High Court along with the anticipatory bail petition.
“All the records in the office were verified by the police officers. There was no hanky panky at all. The affidavit of Pacheco was notarized as per the laid down procedure,” he said, even as the police has come under the scanner for their failure to lay their hands on the former minister for moving around Margao for swearing in his affidavit before the notary.
Questions are being asked how Pacheco’s visit to the city escaped the police intelligence, and that too given the fact that the office of Adv Joey is located in a congested area like the New Market. The police had issued a look out circular for the former tourism minister and his OSD Lyndon Monteiro in the Nadia Torrado death case.
Commenting on the development, a senior police official said the police are trying to find whether the former Minister had indeed come to the office of Adv Joey to get his affidavit notarized.
Adv Joey told Herald that no notice or summons was served on him by the police and he volunteered to open his office last night for the men-in-uniform to verify the records and registers. “I have nothing to hide. Pacheco’s affidavit was notarized by me in my office,” he said.
While social activist Adv Aires Rodrigues has demanded an inquiry by the Goa police on the Notary services for not intimating the police when Pacheco came to notarize his affidavit, Adv Joey has said he has not committed any offense in the matter.
