Team Herald
PANJIM: Justice C V Bhadang of the High Court of Bombay at Goa on Monday, after hearing arguments, reserved his order on the petition filed by former Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar seeking a review of the order passed by the High Court directing him to face trial in the Serula Comunidade cheating and land grab case filed against him by Adv Aires Rodrigues.
While Senior Counsel Subodh Kantak argued that the HC could review its order, Rodrigues drew Justice Bhadang’s attention to a Constitutional bench judgement of the Supreme Court mandating that the HC did not have the power of review in criminal matters.
Rodrigues further argued that once an order was passed the Court could only correct clerical or arithmetical errors.
Justice Bhadang on June 22 had directed Parulekar and the other two other persons Peter Martins, then attorney of Comunidade of Serula and Irene Sequeira, then Administrator of Comunidade of Bardez to face trial for offences under the Indian Penal Code. The trio are facing trial before Mapusa JMFC with the next hearing scheduled for October 16.
