MARGAO
District Judge-I and Additional Sessions Judge, South Goa Vincent M D’Silva retired from Goa State Judicial service on Wednesday by superannuation after putting in 26 years of service as a Judicial officer.
Judge Vincent, who had handled corruption cases against politicians from South Goa in the PWD scam, mining cases and the power rebate scam, completed 26 years of continuous service as Junior Division, Senior Division, Ad hoc District Judge, and finally District and Sessions Judge, South Goa.
Judge Vincent joined Margao as District and Sessions Judge in June 2021 and had awarded Life Imprisonment in three cases and imprisonment for five years in one case.
He was first appointed as Civil Judge Junior Division vide order dated February 15, 1996, before being promoted as Ad hoc Civil Judge Senior Division on March 27, 2004.
He was promoted as Ad hoc District Judge-2 and Asst Sessions Judge, Panaji on September 23, 2010, and promoted on July 28, 2014, as District Judge and Addl Sessions Judge vide notification of the High Court of Judicature.
Judge Vincent was deputed to the Industrial Tribunal Panaji from Jan 2016 to June 2021 as Presiding Officer.
Having stood first at the BCom and LLB examinations, Vincent had completed MCom and was a teacher at Guardian Angel High school as well as Higher Secondary School, Curchorem before joining as an advocate in 1990.
He was elected as a councillor of the Sanguem Municipal Council during his stint as a teacher. He was a secretary of the Goa Judges' Association for the last five years.
