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Goa Pradesh Mahila Congress President Pratima Coutinho on Thursday handed over a bond to the JMFC-Mapusa, in connection with her support to the para teachers’ agitation and for blocking the entrance of the Secretariat in Porvorim.
The next court hearing in this connection will take place on February 12.
The agitating para teachers had blocked the entrance to the Secretariat on November 2, 2017.
Porvorim Police had filed a charge sheet against Coutinho, Savitri Kavlekar and Ashwarya Salgaonkar of Congress and Para Teachers, Smita Dessai, Reshama Dessai and Tripti Tilve.
The court had sent them summons on July 3, but Coutinho had not attended the court hearing that day. On Thursday, she handed over a bond for Rs 10,000.
Judge Shantashri Sinai Kudchadkar has fixed the next hearing in the case for February 12, 2019.
