PANAJI
Former Goa Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) Superintendent of Police Priyanka Kashyap has filed a plea before the Goa Lokayukta to request the Suo Motu proceedings initiated against her over a delay in filing an FIR in the disproportionate assets case against Cumbarjua MLA Pandurang Madkaikar be dropped.
Priyanka Kashyap currently serves as deputy commissioner of police in Delhi.
It may be noted that former Lokayukta Justice P K Mishra in an order on September 15, 2020, had directed the ACB to register an FIR against Madkaikar and had observed that SP Priyanka Kashyap had entirely failed in discharging her duty in accordance with the law.
Justice Mishra has directed that Suo Moto proceeding be initiated against SP Kashyap observing that appropriate action is required to be imposed on SP Kashyap for gross dereliction of duty.
Adv Aires Rodrigues on June 7, 2018, had filed a complaint with the Lokayukta over the inaction of the ACB in probing the complaint filed by him against Pandurang Madkaikar.
In his complaint, Rodrigues demanded an inquiry into Madkaikar’s palatial bungalow at Old Goa and had demanded an investigation against Madkaikar and his wife Janita Madkaikar, who is the sarpanch of Old Goa.
