Even as the Congress has said that everyone is equal before the law and the law should take its own course, both former Chief Minister Digambar Kamat and former PWD Minister Churchill Alemao feigned ignorance about the Enforcement Directorate’s attachment of their plot and flat in the Louis Berger bribery scandal case.
MARGAO
While Kamat said that he is yet to receive any notice or intimation from the ED on the attachment of the so-called properties, Churchill said he has no idea about the attachment, saying he has come to know of the news via the media. “I do not know the action of the Enforcement Directorate. I have not been issued any notice nor received any intimation on the attachment. I do not know whether they can take any action just because they are in power,” Kamat wondered.
Saying that he would consult his legal counsel on the development, the Margao MLA said he would prefer to offer a comment on the development only after verifying the actual facts.
Former PWD Minister Churchill Alemao, who has extended support to the BJP-led Manohar Parrikar government after the March 11 election results, initially said he has nothing to say on the matter since he is unaware of the attachment.
He, however, later said that the so-called flat claimed to have been attached by the Enforcement Directorate came to his family after a party failed to pay him and his family for the ancestral property. “When the party could not pay our family the money for our ancestral property, the party had given these flats to the family,” Churchill said, adding that these flats have nothing to do with Louis Berger case.
In the meantime, Senior Congress leader M K Sheikh told The Goan that he has nothing to comment on the development since he has not much details with him on the issue.
He, however, hastened to remind that everyone is equal before the law and the law will take its own course, when asked that former Chief Minister Digambar Kamat is one of the two persons whose property has been attached by the Enforcement Directorate.
