SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2024
Team Herald
PANJIM: After two delays, nominated councillor of the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) Kishor Sastry submitted his reply to a petition challenging his and Kabir Makhija’s appointment as nominated CCP Councillors.
A Division Bench of the Bombay High Court at Goa comprising Justice S P Deshmukh and Justice M S Sonak will now hear the petition on Monday, August 2.
Sastry in his reply has stated that he was elected corporator from Ward No 4 in 2016 and therefore has the required knowledge and experience in municipal administration to be nominated as councillor.
Sastry has stated that no procedure was violated by the State government in nominating him and Makhija as councillors.
Sastry in his reply also stated that he and Makhija have held posts of responsibility which can be construed as experience in municipal administration which makes them eligible to be nominated as councillors on account of their field experience.
Adv Aires Rodrigues in his petition has challenged the two appointments claiming it was in total breach and violation of law and that the CCP while proposing to nominate them as councillors had falsely stated that they were experts in the field of engineering and urban administration respectively.
