MONDAY, MAY 20, 2024
Team Herald
PANJIM: The High Court of Bombay at Goa on Friday declined the request to adjourn the Panjim police station attack case by a few days and directed that it will be taken up on Saturday.
Panjim MLA Atanasio (Babush) Monserrate and his wife Revenue Minister Jennifer, former Panjim Mayor Tony Rodrigues are among 36 accused in the infamous 2008 attack on Panjim police station. The case has been pending in the High Court for the last seven years.
Justice Manish Pitale refused to grant the adjournment sought by the Monserrates, while observing that the matter involved a directive of the Supreme Court.
In a letter petition to the Administrative Judge of the High Court on November 9 Adv Aires Rodrigues had pointed out that the Supreme Court being concerned about the criminalisation of politics had directed that the criminal cases against politicians should be fast tracked but that it had not happened in Goa at least in the Panjim police station attack case.
Monserrate, his wife Jennifer and others stand charge sheeted by the CBI for having on February 19, 2008 attacked and damaged the Police Station.
