The High Court of Bombay at Goa has declined to grant the state government the two weeks it sought to reply to the Goa Foundation's plea seeking that contempt notices be issued to the government for failing to notify a tiger reserve within the time stipulated by the judiciary. The Advocate General Devidas Pangam is resorting to subterfuge and stonewalling tactics by submitting that the state has filed a review petition in the SC which shall come up for hearing in November and that things should be held in abeyance till then. He also claimed that the government has complied with all other directives of the courts. This is prima facie 'contempt of court' , even a layman not well versed with the law can figure it out, add to that judicial time being frittered by such time wasting tactics being indulged in by the government's legal representative. There is a fit case for the Goa government to be heavily penalized by the courts so that it doesn't resort to such misadventures in future . Let's see who blinks first in the tiger reserve issue which has been essentially reduced to a battle of attrition now.
