PANAJI
The Bombay High Court at Goa will take up for hearing the Panaji police station attack case on Saturday after Adv Aires Rodrigues who has approached the High Court afresh, has opposed any lengthy adjournment to the appeal that is now pending before the High Court.
In a letter petition to the Administrative Judge of the High Court on November 9, Adv Rodrigues, pointed out to the court that the Supreme Court being concerned about the criminalization of politics had directed that the criminal cases against politicians should be fast tracked but that it had not happened in Goa at least in the Panaji Police Station attack case in which Babush Monserrate his wife Jennifer and others stand charge sheeted by the CBI for having on 19th February 2008 attacked and damaged the Police Station.
Justice Manish Pitale of the Bombay High Court at Goa today while declining the request to adjourn the case by few days directed that it will take up on November 27 the final hearing of the appeal that had been filed in 2014.
Adv Rodrigues further stated that over the last seven years the matter had been appearing and disappearing from the High Court final hearing board and that the Prosecution could be possibly aiding the politically well connected accused they being from the ruling party.
Adv Rodrigues also stated that the very questionable stay of the criminal trial granted by the High Court on 4th December 2014 that has continued for seven long years was contrary to a Supreme Court order that any stay granted by the High Court expires in six months and that unless extension is granted the trial must go ahead.
Seeking immediate intervention of the Court to preserve the sanctity and solemnity of Temples of Justice and to ensure that the mandate of law is complied with, Adv Rodrigues urged that his letter petition be treated as a Suo-Motu Public Interest Litigation to ensure that the orders of the Supreme Court are strictly enforced in letter and spirit.
