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Tainted former minister Mauvin Godinho was granted bail on Thursday, with conditions.
Following former deputy chief minister Dayanand Narvekar and former minister Somnath Zuwarkar, he is the third opposition legislator who is now out of the police net.
Godinho was arrested by the state police on May 16, for his involvement in a multi-crore power rebate scam. After hoodwinking the police and spending nights in hospital under the pretext of chest pain, he had to spend a day in custody.
After walking out of the police headquarters in Panjim, Godinho immediately sought anticipatory bail, knowing that the BJP government would arrest him again in a separate case of the power rebate scam.
The district court, on May 25, refused his bail application, while Godinho literally ran out of court to evade arrest even before police came to know what the ex-minister was doing. He then sought relief from the high court, till the court reopens after summer vacations.
The high court finally granted him bail, but after making it mandatory for him to report to the police station for 10 days and make himself available for interrogation whenever necessary.
Goa Cricket Association secretary Vinod Phadke, who is accused of helping Narvekar in a bogus cricket ticket scam, surrendered in court. He was granted bail, with similar conditions imposed on GCA president Narvekar.
Both have been debarred from functioning as GCA officials for two months, and restrained from leaving the state without police permission.
Goa is now waiting for arrests of sons of a few politicians, who are allegedly involved in a sex scandal, run through a cyber cafe. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar seems confident that the day is near.
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