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Fresh summons to Digambar in mining probe

Former Chief Minister and present Margao MLA Digambar Kamat on Friday was issued fresh summons by the Special Investigation Team of Goa Police Crime Branch probing the alleged Rs 35,000 crore illegal mining case of 2013. Kamat, who skipped the first summons on Tuesday, has been asked to remain present at the Crime Branch in Ribandar on Monday.



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Former Director of Mines and Geology Arvind Lolienkar and J B Bhingui have already been questioned by the SIT in connection with the case while another former mines official has been summoned on Saturday.   
Based on a complaint from the mines department, the CB registered an FIR on August 19, 2013, against all those listed in the reports submitted by the Shah Commission, the Public Accounts Committee and the Supreme Court appointed Central Empowered Committee. The SIT was instituted in the last week of August 2013. 
Kamat, Lolienkar and four other accused were booked under relevant sections of the IPC in the case. 
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Chemically ripened Alphonso mangoes seized in Panaji

In a major surveillance drive, Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has confiscated 400 kgs of Alphonso mangoes at Panaji Municipal Market, which were artificially rnripened using a ripening chemical.

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Published Apr 22, 2017, 6:59 PM IST
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the goan I networkPANAJI   FDA office in Goa further informed that of the 400 kgs of mangoes thus confiscated, one consignment was being brought to Goa in a rickshaw from Vengurla in Maharashtra. The FDA team conducted spot test on this consignment, which responded positive to ethopon chemical presence.   A person called Ravi Shastri from Calca owned both the rickshaw and the consignment. He was detained for interrogation by FDA. Besides this seized…

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