PANAJI
The Special Investigation Team of Goa Police probing the illegal mining scam on Tuesday filed a chargesheet before the Panaji Special Court against Congress leader Jitendra Deshprabhu, former Director of Mines Arvind Lolienkar, retired senior geologist Hector Fernandes, Tausif Momin and Gitesh Naik for hatching a conspiracy, illegally extraction and sale of iron ore from a mine located in Korgaon, Pernem taluka.
As per the chargesheet submitted by the SIT before the court, the accused persons hatched a conspiracy to undertake illegal extraction of iron ore from survey No 299/0 at Bhiadwada in Korgaon village and to sell that ore.
The mine is owned by Deshprabhu.
The SIT chargesheet states that in the year 2012 the main accused Deshprabhu hatched a criminal conspiracy with the co-accused and extracted 2.40 lakh metric tonnes of iron ore. The extracted quantity of ore back then fetched Rs 58 crore. In a 2004-page chargesheet, SIT has named 200 persons as public witnesses against the accused.
Prior to filing of the chargesheet, SIT placed the accused Jitendra Deshprabhu and Arvind Lolienkar under arrest. The duo was later released
on bail following the
court's order.
The Special Investigation Team of Goa Police probing the illegal mining scam on Tuesday filed a chargesheet before the Panaji Special Court against Congress leader Jitendra Deshprabhu, former Director of Mines Arvind Lolienkar, retired senior geologist Hector Fernandes, Tausif Momin and Gitesh Naik for hatching a conspiracy, illegally extraction and sale of iron ore from a mine located in Korgaon, Pernem taluka.
As per the chargesheet submitted by the SIT before the court, the accused persons hatched a conspiracy to undertake illegal extraction of iron ore from survey No 299/0 at Bhiadwada in Korgaon village and to sell that ore.
The mine is owned by Deshprabhu.
The SIT chargesheet states that in the year 2012 the main accused Deshprabhu hatched a criminal conspiracy with the co-accused and extracted 2.40 lakh metric tonnes of iron ore. The extracted quantity of ore back then fetched Rs 58 crore. In a 2004-page chargesheet, SIT has named 200 persons as public witnesses against the accused.
Prior to filing of the chargesheet, SIT placed the accused Jitendra Deshprabhu and Arvind Lolienkar under arrest. The duo was later released
on bail following the
court's order.
