Government should come clean making public total expenditure incurred so far on the Tarun Tejpal case which has been on for almost eight years. It is estimated that the government must have incurred expenses of approximately Rs 10 crore on this case which is yet to see its finality. With that money, the Government could have set up a state-of-the-art full-fledged health centre at the old Ribandar hospital. It is anguishing that the state exchequer has been drained on account of the witch-hunt waged by the BJP against Tejpal. Why should the tax-payer have to bear the brunt of such a wasteful politically orchestrated plot?
Will the government enlighten us as to in how many other cases it has suo motu initiated criminal proceedings and gone hammer and tongs as done in the Tejpal case by incurring such huge mind-boggling expenditure? Could we also know in which other cases Goa police has demonstrated such rare enthusiasm to investigate?
The financial pain faced by the taxpayer on account of this case is far from over. The appeal now filed by the Government against Tejpal’s acquittal will take a couple of years to be decided by the High Court and then the last round in the Supreme Court may also take long. Maybe the law needs to be amended to prevent any such future financial abuse by the government.
