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MARGAO
The three main contestants for the South Goa Lok Sabha seat “ BJP, Congress and the Aam Aadmi party “ have no convictions against them, even as AAP candidate Elvis Gomes has claimed in the affidavit that though a case in the land acquisition proceedings was registered against him, the ACB has already moved the special court for closure.
A look at the educational qualifications of the three candidates Narendra Sawaikar (BJP), Francisco Sardinha (Congress) and Elvis Gomes (AAP) revealed that the trio are all graduates, with Sawaikar and Gomes law graduates, while Sardinha is a BSc
graduate.
While both Sawaikar and Gomes are in their 50s, with Sawaikar showing his age as 52 years and Gomes around 56, the Congress candidate Francisco Sardinha has shown his age as 73 years.
All these three main candidates have stated in their affidavit that they have no convictions against them in any court of law.
In fact, Sawaikar, Gomes and Sardinha have stated in their affidavits that the item in respect of convictions in criminal cases is non applicable for them.
However, the AAP candidate in his affidavit has stated that as per FIR 5/2016/ dated May 6, 2016, an offense of alleged involvement of dropping of a land acquisition proceedings was registered inter alia against him, who was then MD of Goa Housing Board, under section 420 read with 120B of the IPC and section 13(1)(d) read with section 13(20 of the PCA Act.
He, however, pointed out that a criminal writ petition 114/2016 was filed by him seeking quashing of the FIR which was disposed off vide order dated March 8, 2019.
Gomes stated in his affidavit that the respondent state had made submission that there is no evidence against the petitioner to make any chargesheet, adding that based on the said submission,
the High Court has directed that the respondent state should approach the concerned magistrate for closure of the case.
Accordingly, the ACB has already placed A Final summary before the Special Court, Gomes added.
