SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2024
Team Herald
PANJIM: Mormugao Congress candidate Sankalp Amonkar on Tuesday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is misusing the government machinery against him and harassing him by summoning to the Crime branch over issue of alleged ‘sex scandal’ involving former Minister and MLA Milind Naik.
Amonkar was on Tuesday summoned to the crime branch and was later taken to the Women’s police station, Panjim to take possession of mobiles phones.
Amonkar said that police are harassing him over a complaint lodged by a woman against him. “This lady had complained in Bihar, which was transferred to Mormugao police station and later to the crime branch. Police filed an FIR against me, but has failed to register a case against Milind Naik in complaint filed by me at Women’s police station 35 days ago,” said Amonkar.
“I am not afraid of pressure tactics by the BJP. Let them even arrest me, I will still fight for truth and I am confident that truth will prevail as I have all the evidence against Milind Naik. We are soon approaching Court with all documents we possess,” he said.
The Congress vice-president expressed his surprise over the act of the crime branch to take possession of mobile phone handsets from the women’s police station, which was handed over by him to investigate the case against the former Minister.
“Now I don’t know whether the police have tampered the data from these mobile phones. Even if they do so, we have multiple copies of it,” he claimed.
“BJP is trying to protect Milind Naik and hence hatching conspiracy against me. Why Milind Naik resigned as Minister if he was not involved in this sex scandal?” he questioned.
