RELEASE OF BOOKLET ON GOA'S ADVOCATE GENERAL SUBODH KANTAK DELAYED.

RELEASE OF BOOKLET ON GOA’S ADVOCATE GENERAL SUBODH KANTAK DELAYED.

The release of the booklet “Misdeeds of Advocate General Subodh Kantak” which was scheduled for December 19th has been delayed.

Adv. Aires Rodrigues has today stated that the delay in releasing the booklet was as the request made to Chief Minister Digambar Kamat to print the booklet at the Government Printing Press was still pending with the Government for over a month.

Adv. Rodrigues has stated that by a letter on 4th November he had requested Chief Minister Digambar Kamat that in public interest the booklet be printed at the Government printing press and be distributed by the Department of Information through all the Municipalities and Panchayats to every house free of cost.

Adv. Rodrigues has also stated that the 50 page booklet would be a documented account with all evidence on the glaring misdeeds and irregularities committed by Advocate General of Goa Mr. Subodh Kantak.

Adv. Rodrigues has stated that one of the issues on which this government had to be judged at the next Assembly elections was the manner in which Advocate General Subodh Kantak had been paid over five crores over the last five years making him India’s highest paid Advocate General.

Stating that the Subodh Kantak saga was a very dark chapter in the 50 years of Goa’s Liberation, Adv Rodrigues has accused the government of shielding the illegalities committed by Advocate General Mr. Subodh Kantak.

Adv. Rodrigues has further stated that inspite of Chief Minister Digambar Kamat’s repeated assurances that the Advocate General’s fees would be slashed and brought on par with the AG’s of Maharastra, Karnataka and Gujarat, that the Chief Minister had taken no action and allowed Mr. Subodh Kantak to recklessly bleed the State exchequer

Adv. Rodrigues has also alleged that due to unsound politically tainted legal advice being given to the Government by the Advocate General, almost every decision taken by this government has landed up being challenged before the Courts with most of them quashed and set aside.

Adv. Rodrigues has stated that Mr. Subodh Kantak instead of upholding the dignity and self-respect of the high constitutional post had tarnished the image and sanctity of the post by not maintaining the required high standards of professional ethics and decorum.