Former Goa Tourism Minister Fransisco Mickey Pacheco was today sentenced to one-year imprisonment for assaulting a junior engineer of the State electricity department.
Judicial Magistrate First Class in Margao town ordered the imprisonment, which was suspended for 30 days, allowing Pacheco to appeal in the higher court.
Pacheco, an NCP legislator, had been arrested in connection with the death of his lady friend Nadia Torrado last year.
In the current case, he had assaulted junior engineer Kapil Natekar by calling him in his office on July 16, 2006.
Police, in their charge sheet, said that Pacheco had also threatened the junior engineer with dire consequences.
Pacheco, however, had denied the charges claiming that the allegations were politically motivated.
The former minister has been in news for wrong reasons several times, including during the investigation by CBI against him for allegedly trafficking humans beings in the United States.
