NCP’s Gujarat in-charge arrested in Goa
August 05, 2011
NCP’s Gujarat in-charge arrested in Goa
Goa, 5 August, 2011
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and party in-charge of Gujarat Jeetendra Deshprabhu was Thursday arrested by the Goa Police’s Crime Branch in an illegal mining case after his application for anticipatory bail was rejected by a local trial court.
Deshprabhu has already been fined Rs.1.7 crore for carrying out illegal bauxite mining in Korgao village in Goa.
He was booked along with state mines director Arvind Lolienkar, following an FIR filed by right to information (RTI) activist Kashinath Shetye, who had accused both of carrying out illegal mining.
The NCP is part of the Congress-led coalition government in Goa and has two ministers in the 12-member cabinet
NCP’s Goa co-ordinator Prafulla Hede has already been hauled up for illegal mining by the Goa government, while another office bearer Gitesh Naik has already been arrested in an illegal mining case.
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