The recently appointed Goa Lokayukta Justice P.K.Misra has fixed on 16th
June the preliminary hearing on the complaint that was filed on April 3rd
2013 against the then Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and Dattaprasad
Kholkar the Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Board who is also the
State BJP Vice-President.
In the complaint filed under section 11 of the Goa Lokayukta Act, Manohar
Parrikar and Dattaprasad Kholkar have been accused of misusing their
offices to high-handedly, illegally and fraudulently appoint Diksha
Pednekar as peon in the office of the Deputy Chairman of the State Planning
Board.
Though Diksha Pednekar was appointed on 6th June 2012 as peon in the office
of the Deputy Chairman of the Goa State Planning Board, she never worked in
that position or for that matter never entered the Secretariat at Porvorim
where is housed the office of the Deputy Chairman of the Goa State Planning
Board and where she was supposed to work.
The work of Diksha Pednekar as peon in the office of the Deputy Chairman of
the Goa Planning Board was infact being carried out by her husband
Dhananjay Pednekar who is a Panchayat member of ward No 1 of
Pomburpa-Olaulim Panchayat, while, Diksha Pednekar was working as a maid in
the house of an architect Indrajit Chatterji at Muddi Vaddo in Olaulim,
Pomburpa.
As the Goa Panchayat Act does not allow a panch member to work for the
government, fraudulently the official papers show Diksha Pednekar as the
peon while de-facto the peon’s work was being discharged by her husband
Dhananjay Pednekar.
The whole appointment of Diksha Pednekar smacked not only of nepotism,
corruption and favoritism, but also forgery being committed by falsifying
records with the active connivance of Manohar Parrikar and Dattaprasad
Kholkar. Infact Manohar Parrikar and Dattaprasad Kholkar committed
'criminal misconduct', by abusing their position as public servants to
obtain the illegal employment for Diksha Pednekar in public service, at the
cost of State's exchequer.
Manohar Parrikar and Dattaprasad Kholkar are liable to be prosecuted for
offences under sections 13(d) (i), section 13(d) (ii) of the Prevention of
Corruption Act, 1988 punishable under section 13(2) of the said Act, as
well as section 193 (for fabricating false evidence), section 420 (cheating
the State exchequer, thereby causing loss to the State treasury) and
section 468 (forgery for the purposes of cheating)
It has been sought that an F.I.R be registered against Manohar Parrikar,
Dattaprasad Kholkar and other officials who were party to this illegality
and that after investigating the complaint that they be prosecuted in
accordance with law.
Aires Rodrigues
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