CBI served notices in IFFI scam

PANJIM, AUG 21
District and Sessions Court today served notices to CBI on a contempt petition filed in connection with IFFI scam.
The petitioners Kashinath Shetye and two others have said that the investigating officer suppressed vital facts before the court.
Admitting the application, Sessions Judge Nutan Sardesai has served notices on superintendent of Police and Police Inspector of CBI asking them to appear before court either in person or by a pleader on August 30, 2010.
Three petitioners Kashinath Shetye, Ketan Govekar and Atish Premnath Mandrekar have said that the court hearing their earlier petition had directed CBI to place the case diaries of the investigation of IFFI scam before it.
They had petitioned court seeking to include name of officials from Entertainment Society of Goa’s core committee into the inquiry of IFFI scam, which has accused former chief minister Manohar Parrikar of financial irregularities.
The fresh contempt petition before the court reads that CBI had produced some case diaries pertaining to the period after the case was transferred from Panaji police to them.
The petitioners say that they had sought information under Right to Information (RTI), information act from CBI which is different from that provided to the court.
The petitioner said that CBI had not provided the facts before the court that case was filed with police on March 16, 2006 and thereafter FIR was registered on October 25, 2006, which is six months after the complaint.
The matter was referred to CBI on April 19, 2007 and a fresh FIR was filed in this case.
“These vital facts were suppressed by CBI before the court and were not placed when they were directed to produce records of the investigation,” the contempt petition pleads.
They have said that the applicants have every reason to believe that this was done deliberately, in view of the fact that the respondents, were required to complete their preliminary investigation in not more than three months, whereas they have taken almost seven months.
“And in any case they are required to complete an investigation within two years and if above facts are taken into consideration, they have taken almost four and half years,” the petition reads.