It is gross professional impropriety and sheer highhandedness on the part of former Solicitor General Harish Salve to have agreed to give the Goa Government legal advice on the mining issue. Harish Salve having earlier been Amicus Curiae in the Goa Mining case before the Supreme Court, it is now a clear and blatant conflict of interest.
Harish Salve’s nexus with the notorious former Advocate General of Goa and now the Additional Solicitor General Atmaram Nadkarni is also no secret. In a gross abuse of power Atmaram Nadkarni had got Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar to hurriedly issue on January 17th 2014 a very controversial notification extending the Special Marriage Act to Goa. It was all done to solely facilitate the marriage of Harish Salve’s daughter Saaniya with Armaan Siddiqui which was illegally solemnised in Goa on February 24th that year at Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher Villa in Candolim. To circumvent the rules, a false declaration was made by Saaniya Salve before the Panaji Sub-Registrar that she was a resident in Goa for over six months at 105/106 Altess Manor in Caranzalem, a flat owned by Atmaram Nadkarni. Jane Bryant Quinn had said “Lawyers are operators of toll bridges which anyone in search of justice must pass” Aires Rodrigues Advocate High Court C/G-2, Shopping Complex Ribandar Retreat, Ribandar – Goa – 403006 Mobile No: 9822684372 Office Tel No: (0832) 2444012 Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com Or airesrodrig...@yahoo.com You can also reach me on Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues Twitter@rodrigues_aires www.airesrodrigues.com