[Goanet] Goa to withdraw hundreds of complaints to save minister
Goa to withdraw hundreds of complaints to save ministerJuly 7th, 2009 - 2:35 pm ICT by IANS [image: Tell a Friend]http://www.freetellafriend.com/tell/?option=manualu=4395- Panaji, July 7 (IANS) After hurriedly pushing through a controversial ordinance changing a 105-year-old law to save a five star resort from demolition in March, the Goa government is now tinkering with a cognisable section of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to save a cabinet minister charged with threatening to kill a lawyer. A controversial note by Goa Advocate General Subodh Kantak now seeks that charges against hundreds of people booked under section 506 of the IPC since May 2004, including Health Minister Vishwajeet Rane, be dropped on technical grounds. Section 506, which deals with various aspects of criminal intimidation, was made more stringent by the state government in 2004, making offences booked under the section non-bailable and cognisable to ensure that those arrested under it would be automatically placed in police custody. The note dated June 30, of which IANS has a copy, was subsequently endorsed by Home Minister Ravi Naik and Chief Minister Digambar Kamat. It states that the 2004 notification rendering section 506 IPC cognisable was bad in law as it had had not been published in a government gazette, as mandated. “Notification dated 11.5.2004 has not been published in the official gazette. The notification therefore cannot be acted upon or enforced or treated as law until and unless it is published in the official gazette. Section 506 (of the) IPC, therefore, cannot be considered as a cognisable and non bailable offence,” Kantak has said in his note. “All FIRs (first information reports) registered by the police under section 506 alone or under section 506 read with any other cognisable offence will be without authority of law… It is therefore necessary to instruct all assistant public prosecutors, public prosecutors to withdraw prosecutions filed under section 506 IPC alone or together with any other non cognisable offence,” he added. Rane was booked by the police after he allegedly threatened to kill a lawyer, Aires Rodrigues, over the phone in 2007. The police, who had earlier refused to file a FIR, were forced into action, following directions from a trial court. In March this year, the state government had issued a controversial ordinance amending the Land Acquisition Act 1894 to legalise 54 illegally constructed rooms in the Cidade de Goa, a five star resort near Panaji, after the Supreme court had ordered demolition of these structures. http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/goa-to-withdraw-hundreds-of-complaints-to-save-minister_100214539.html COMMENT: As stated before, one law for them another for the rest of usthey are above the law, or the law can be changed to accommodate them, including rape (possibly Monsterrate Jr will also get scott free) the man who raped and killed 14 women can also claim this benevolence. Goa Government is opening up a can of worms. -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London.
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Hello there! Why do these people behave in this manner? Sooner or later the chickens will come to roost. If this 'Rane person' has threatened Aries then the law should take its course - why be an obstacle to it? Might as well take the law into one own hands is it? See what happened in Maharashtra to a high profile ex minister. Ultimately how long could he hide from it? One year , 2 years , 3 years huh? Will the same thing happen to The President of India's Kin? If it is true it will happen, as truth is like a cube of ice in a glass of whiskey - it will surface someday with a terrible rebound. Please advise this 'Rane person' not to fiddle with the law. Ashley -Original Message- From: goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org [mailto:goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org] On Behalf Of Gabe Menezes Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:59 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: [Goanet] Goa to withdraw hundreds of complaints to save minister Goa to withdraw hundreds of complaints to save ministerJuly 7th, 2009 - 2:35 pm ICT by IANS [image: Tell a Friend]http://www.freetellafriend.com/tell/?option=manualu=4395- Panaji, July 7 (IANS) After hurriedly pushing through a controversial ordinance changing a 105-year-old law to save a five star resort from demolition in March, the Goa government is now tinkering with a cognisable section of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to save a cabinet minister charged with threatening to kill a lawyer. A controversial note by Goa Advocate General Subodh Kantak now seeks that charges against hundreds of people booked under section 506 of the IPC since May 2004, including Health Minister Vishwajeet Rane, be dropped on technical grounds. Section 506, which deals with various aspects of criminal intimidation, was made more stringent by the state government in 2004, making offences booked under the section non-bailable and cognisable to ensure that those arrested under it would be automatically placed in police custody. The note dated June 30, of which IANS has a copy, was subsequently endorsed by Home Minister Ravi Naik and Chief Minister Digambar Kamat. It states that the 2004 notification rendering section 506 IPC cognisable was bad in law as it had had not been published in a government gazette, as mandated. Notification dated 11.5.2004 has not been published in the official gazette. The notification therefore cannot be acted upon or enforced or treated as law until and unless it is published in the official gazette. Section 506 (of the) IPC, therefore, cannot be considered as a cognisable and non bailable offence, Kantak has said in his note. All FIRs (first information reports) registered by the police under section 506 alone or under section 506 read with any other cognisable offence will be without authority of law. It is therefore necessary to instruct all assistant public prosecutors, public prosecutors to withdraw prosecutions filed under section 506 IPC alone or together with any other non cognisable offence, he added. Rane was booked by the police after he allegedly threatened to kill a lawyer, Aires Rodrigues, over the phone in 2007. The police, who had earlier refused to file a FIR, were forced into action, following directions from a trial court. In March this year, the state government had issued a controversial ordinance amending the Land Acquisition Act 1894 to legalise 54 illegally constructed rooms in the Cidade de Goa, a five star resort near Panaji, after the Supreme court had ordered demolition of these structures. http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/goa-to-withdraw-hundreds-of-com plaints-to-save-minister_100214539.html COMMENT: As stated before, one law for them another for the rest of usthey are above the law, or the law can be changed to accommodate them, including rape (possibly Monsterrate Jr will also get scott free) the man who raped and killed 14 women can also claim this benevolence. Goa Government is opening up a can of worms. -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London.
[Goanet] Goa to withdraw hundreds of complaints to save minister
Actually the shame is on Goan people who elect crooks such as Vishwajeet and opportunists such as Digambar. samir
[Goanet] Goa to withdraw hundreds of complaints to save
Dear Samir, In my opinion it does not behoove you to make the comment below. It is very true, not at all hurtful to me (just to be clear), but I feel it reduces you. They are all massive opportunists. In that sense they have learned some worthy lessons, but I doubt many of them came from the Arthshastra. Any given majority (as in a congeries of voters) at any given time will result in their ending up having elected one or the other, so it will be the Ranes or the Kamats, or the stalwarts of the BJP, or whoever. I also say the above considering that you writing in the Goan press has been applauded on Goanet. Particularly interesting ideas such as bleow, in http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=23318cid=14 I doubt if there is any Goan who hasn’t heard this famous ballad: “Aage mhoje mai / Pedru podlo baient / Nisonn pavona / Pedru gavona.” (O, Mother / Pedru fell in a well / but the ladder was not long enough / Pedru couldn’t be found). The only consolation in this story if there is any is that at least someone tried to save Pedru. That counts for something, all thoughts do teach us of the societies which we represent in whatever manner. venantius From: Samir Kelekar samir_kele...@yahoo.com Subject: [Goanet] Goa to withdraw hundreds of complaints to save minister To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Message-ID: 864445.9431...@web34205.mail.mud.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Actually the shame is on Goan people who elect crooks such as Vishwajeet and opportunists such as Digambar. samir
[Goanet] Goa to withdraw hundreds of complaints to save
Start with frying these fu*ers and then do the same if and when one is found on the other side. But the fact that this happened should help formulate strategy by those who keep trying. The AGs remuneration though may even go higher now that he is in the role of the Dwarpala. venantius j pinto Message: 4 Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:29:25 +0100 From: Gabe Menezes gabe.mene...@gmail.com Subject: [Goanet] Goa to withdraw hundreds of complaints to save Goa to withdraw hundreds of complaints to save ministerJuly 7th, 2009 - 2:35 pm ICT by IANS [image: Tell a Friend]http://www.freetellafriend.com/tell/?option=manualu=4395-
