he High Court has mandated that the Power Scam trial involving Mauvin Godinho be expedited and that the trial should be completed by January 15, 2023. Vincent MD D’Silva, Senior Judge has been appointed to adjudicate in the matter, Sudip Tamankar of All Goa Private Bus Owners Association told media on Thursday. The case has started moving after the Association filed a petition before the High Court after three letter to the Session Court did not yield any results.
Every three months a progress report has to be sent to Chief Justice, of the Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court. “It is good whip against Transport Minister Mauvin Godinho, who collected bribes then and still continues collecting haftas in the transport dept and against the (BJP) govt which is trying to stifle the case,” Tamankar said. The All Goa Private Bus Owners Association has welcomed the intervention of the High Court saying it has full faith in the Judiciary.
All Goa Private Bus Owners alleged that the trial against Mauvin Godinho in the power scam was stopped by using political pressure after an understanding with then Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and after Mauvin joined the BJP in 2017. After he became Transport Minister in the Manohar Parrikar Cabinet, he started harassing private bus owners and started various scams. So they wrote to the session court in March 2020 to restart the trial which had been stopped for four to five years, but nothing happened. Even after the association wrote two more letter in July 2020 and November 2020 nothing happened.
Hence on 7th January 2021 the association filed a petition before the High Court, in the power scam trial and Chief Justice of the High Court took up the matter.
