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Congress blames Parrikar for Goan casino industry’s prosperity

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Manohar ParrikarPanaji : A day after Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar remarked that the Congress leadership was washing its hands (of corruption) in the Ganges, the party on Friday attacked him for enabling Goa’s offshore casino industry to prosper.

Parrikar, a former Goa chief minister, made the comment in Parliament on Friday.

In a statement issued here on Saturday, Congress secretary Durgadas Kamat alleged Parrikar as chief minister of Goa and the state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership may have similarly washed their hands in the waters of the Mandovi river by allowing the offshore casino industry to prosper.

He said it was done despite having promised to drive the casino boats from the river before BJP coming to power in 2012.

“It was BJP and Parrikar himself, who promised the citizens of Goa that the moment BJP comes to power offshore casinos would be removed from the Mandovi river. Instead of doing that, a new casino and a floating hotel run by a casino operator has been given permission,” said Kamat in a statement.

“It is quite visible who has washed their hands in the Mandovi river,” he added.

On Friday, Parrikar, while replying to a debate on the AgustaWestland, said that people in power during the United Progressive Alliance regime, had washed their hands in the flowing waters of the Ganges (behti Ganga) of corruption to favour the VVIP chopper deal, which is now being probed as a multi-million dollar scam.

In the run up to the 2012 state assembly election, Parrikar and the BJP citing moral corruption, had promised to rid the Mandovi, one of the two main rivers in Goa that flows along Panaji, of the offshore casinos which are berthed in it.

Once in power however, the BJP-led governments both initially under the chief ministership of Parrikar and then current Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar, were unable to fulfil the promise.

The Congress as well as civil society activists are now accusing the BJP of being close to the casino lobby and have attacked the party for granting permission to a bigger casino vessel in its tenure.

Currently, there are four operational offshore casinos in the Mandovi, apart from a dozen odd casinos operating from the various five start resorts in the state.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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May 5, 2022

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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