TEAM HERALD
PANJIM: Crime Branch Saturday informed Mapusa Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Carlos da Silva that Sections 13(1) (c) and (d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 have been now added to the cheating case filed against Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar in connection with the Serula Comunidade case.
The investigating officer Police Inspector Siddanth Shirodkar informed the JMFC that these sections under the Prevention of Corruption Act were added during the course of the investigation in addition to the Sections 119, 120, 420 read with 120-B of the Indian Penal Code already invoked against Parulekar, Peter Martins the then attorney of Comunidade of Serula and Irene Sequeira the then Administrator of Comunidade of Bardez.
The Mapusa JMFC who was monitoring the investigation of the case has now transferred the case to the Special Judge B P Deshpande in view of the fact the sections under the Prevention of Corruption Act have been invoked and directed the complainant Adv Aires Rodrigues and the investigating officer appear before the Special Court on November 24.
On a petition filed by Adv Aires Rodrigues under Section 156 (3) of the Criminal Procedure Code, the Mapusa JMFC had on January 16 this year directed the Porvorim Police to register an FIR for offences under sections 119, 120, 420 read with 120-B of the Indian Penal Code against Parulekar, Martins and Sequeira and to investigate the matter.
The Porvorim Police accordingly registered the FIR on January 17 and then later on April 4 transferred the investigation of the case to the Crime Branch.
