Goa Lokayukta, Justice (Retd) P.K. Misra on Thursday directed the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) of Goa Police to produce the entire file processing the complaint over the disproportionate assets of Goa Power Minister Pandurang Madkaikar and his wife Janita Madkaikar, the Sarpanch of Old Goa Panchayat, and all connected files on the matter.
Lawyer Aires Rodrigues on June 7 filed a complaint with the Lokayukta accusing inaction by the ACB in probing the complaint against Mr. Madkaikar. On July 27, the Lokayukta directed the Chief Secretary of Goa and the Superintendent of Police, ACB to file a status report. The status report stated that the ACB had not pursued the complaint as the Lokayukta was now seized of the matter.
Mr. Rodrigues said that Mr. Madkaikar’s company, Nikitasha Realtors Pvt. Ltd. had on April 1 inaugurated a bungalow at Old Goa estimated to cost around ₹200 crores and in his complaint on May 10 demanded that the ACB register an FIR under Sections 13(1) (d) & (e) of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 and Section 120 B of the Indian Penal Code against the two. Mr. Madkaikar’s Income-tax returns for the financial year 2015-16 showed his total income to be ₹1,44,389, and ₹24,389 as his wife’s, he said.
The Lokayukta adjourned the hearing to August 16.
