Porvorim: A Goan lawyer Olavo Albuquerque, residing in Mumbai on Thursday has filed a complaint against the Salvador De Mundo Sarpanch for allegedly assaulting and pushing him during a site inspection in the village.
The Panchayat had issued a notice to John Menezes, a resident of Mumbai through registered AD based on his complaint dated June 11, 2018 and the site inspection was fixed for September 27 by the Panchayat along with the complaint Menezes and his lawyer Albuquerque.
During the inspection, the lawyer Olavo Albuquerque said that he was assaulted and pushed by the Sarpanch of Salvador De Mundo Village for no reason. “I was assaulted and pushed by the Sarpanch during the inspection held today when I was showing the officials the 40 illegal houses mushroomed on forest land in the village. I have filed a complaint at the Porvorim Police station.” said Albuquerque on the other hand the Sarpanch has filed a cross complaint against lawyer Olavo Albuquerque for pushing him and using slang language.
According to the Sarpanch, Olavo Albuquerque who was present along with complaint John Menezes and claims to be his lawyer was time and again told by the panchayat officials not to interfere with the official procedure of site inspection.
“He was disturbing our official procedure of inspection for which I humbly requested him to kindly refrain and not to interfere in our inspection as he doesn’t have the authority towards this effect.
Further I also asked him to show any authority letter of any property owner but he failed to show the same and started raising his voice on us using slang language and not allowing us to do the site inspection.” said Salgoankar .
The Sarpanch further said that he asked Albuquerque to stop interfering and using slang language, to which he suddenly pushed us and thereafter started running down the hill which is a mud road with water trenches and gravel.
The Povorim police are yet to file an FIR in this matter and said that initial investigation is on.
