Lokayukta lambasts Goa govt for refusing to take action in lease renewal fraud

Digital Goa, May 29: Stating that the Lokayukta institution was not satisfied with the reasons given in Action Taken report on the alleged illegal mining lease renewal matter, Goa Lokayukta Justice P K Misra today submitted a 11-pages long, hard hitting special report to Governor Satya Pal Malik in the matter. Pointing out that 31 files were cleared in a single day, the day on which the ordinance was issued Lokayukta said ,”If the above acts were not “abuse of position” then God only knows the meaning of such expression. And God alone can save the State.” Earlier this month the state government has rejected the Lokayukta’s report that recommended than an FIR be registered by the directorate of vigilance’s anticorruption branch (ACB) against former chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar, former mines secretary and former mines director, in connection with the alleged ‘corruption and criminal conspiracy’ regarding the renewal of 88 mining leases between November 2014 and January 2015.
Taking a potshot at the government, Lokayukta suggested that the three accused be ‘honoured’ on Independence Day.



from Digital Goa

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