RTI REVEALS THAT NUTAN SARDESSAI LIED IN HER APPLICATION TO THE JUDGE
Judge Nutan Sardessai did not disclose that she was an employee of Industrialist and mining tycoon Mr. Anil Salgaocar when she applied for the post of Civil Judge Junior Division in 1991. This has been revealed in the information furnished by the Law department to Adv. Aires Rodrigues under the Right to Information Act.
Adv. Aires Rodrigues had sought under the RTI Act complete details including the bio-data and other documents submitted by Ms Nutan Sardessai when she applied for the post as Judge in 1991. Ms Nutan Sardesai is currently the Principal North Goa District & SessionsJudge.
The documents furnished to Adv. Aires Rodrigues under the RTI Actreveals that in her application dated 26th April 1991 for the post of Civil Judge Junior Division Ms Nutan Sardessai only stated that she had seven years and 10 months experience but remained silent as to with whom she had worked.
Adv. Aires Rodrigues has today stated that it needs to be probed as to why Ms. Nutan Sardessai did not disclose in her application that she had initially worked at Margao with Adv. P.G.Navelkar and was later employed by industrialist Mr. Anil Salgaocar. Adv. Rodrigues has further stated that it also needs to be known whether Mr. Anil Salgaocar had played any role in her selection as a Judge.
Adv. Rodrigues has alleged that Ms Nutan Sardessai after becoming a Judge contrary to judicial propriety and high standards of judicial ethics had heard various cases involving her former employer Mr. AnilSalgaocar.
Adv. Rodrigues has stated that in one such case the Bombay High Court at Goa last year had made some very serious observations against Judge Ms Nutan Sardessai in a case involving the River Princess and her former boss Mr. Anil Salgaocar.
The High Court in that judgment held that Judge Nutan Sardessai had exercised her discretion contrary to the well settled principles of law and that she had committed a serious error in appreciating the evidence in that case.
The High Court struck down the order passed by Judge Nutan Sardessai on 29th April 2009 as Principal District Judge, Margao by which she had directed the Goa government to refund Rs five and half crores to Jaisu Shipping Ltd even though there was no such demand made by the company in it’s petition.
Adv. Aires Rodrigues has stated that it was very improper for JudgeNutan Sardessai to have stained the Judiciary by hearing matters involving the interests of her former employer Industrialist Mr. Anil Salgaocar.