SHANTARAM NAIK Ex-M.P. (Ex-President, Goa PCC) 2137, Near Swami Math, Gogol, Margao 403 602 Tel: 0832-2759555 9822159161 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
19th March,2005 PRE-EMPLOYMENT FRAUD-" CHOR MACHAYE SHOR" PRESS NOTE Mr. Shantaram Naik Ex-M.P. and former President of Goa PCC said in a statement issued today that Mr Manohar Parrikar, Ex-Chief Minister, has to be exposed by the present administration of the Goa Governor for introducing a fraudulent pre-employment scheme, deliberately knowing it to be a false and impractical exercise. The new administration should, while assuring the victims of Mr. Parrikar's rash and negligent act, should not allow itself to be put in the dock and instead , without mincing the words, inform the youth as to a how a head of the Government tried to fool them for the last one year. In fact, it is a tragedy that those who are likely to suffer after the hollowness in the scheme became known, and as a result of which the Governor had to put an end to the Scheme, are seeking relief from the Governor under the leadership of Mr. Parrikar who is himself the culprit in the matter and, against whom, a prima facie case for u/s 418 (cheating with knowledge that wrongful loss may ensue to person whose interest offender is bound to protect) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy ) of the Indian Penal Code is clearly established. Mr. Naik said Mr. Parrikar's act can be compared to a number of cases which we across daily in Goa wherein bogus recruitment agents lure young boys in the State to apply to them promising jobs abroad, with, ultimately, agents turning out to be frauds. In this case of pre-employment fraud, it is as if the agent himself pleading the case of his own victims with other authorities, to divert their attentions from his own fraudulent and dubious acts, Mr Naik adds. It is again, Mr. Naik says , in a criminal offence involving murder, the very murderer accompanying the police all the time during their visit to the site pretending to help the police, ultimately turning out to be the culprit. It is a case of "Chor Machaye Shor", he said. Mr. Naik said that the Congress Party had warned the people from day one that the scheme was a bogus scheme as the existing limited potentiality of the job opportunities in the State Government, was known, even to a child in the street. It is like a cinema theatre owner selling tickets even after the show is full, he said. Mr. Naik , citing another instance, said, Mr Parrikar tried to play with the destiny of the thousands of Goans , the specially people from weaker sections of the society, by introducing Ambedker Awas Yojana when, the then BJP Government had neither any land in their possession for allotment, nor had they identified any nor were they aware as to how much land would be required for the purpose. (SHANTARAM NAIK)