Times of
India: Vasco: Saturday, October 25,
2014.
Vasco police interrogated staff members of the BDO
Mohini Halarnkar on Friday after she was suspended for allegedly forging a
letter in the name of advocate general and for later tearing pages of the
minutes book of the Chicalim panchayat.
The lady staff who accompanied Halarnkar when she
visited the Chicalim panchayat was also interrogated.
Sources informed TOI that it was the RTI filed by
Narayan Naik asking some details from the Chicalim panchayat which alerted
Halarnkar as she was afraid that her misdeeds would come to light.
The secretary of the Chicalim panchayat informed
police that Halarnkar had asked him not to furnish any details about the said
letter issued by her to the panchayats of Calata-Majorda, Sancoale, Chicalim
asking for a sum of Rs 25,000 from each panchayat.
Sources also informed that she drafted the said
letter from the Calata-Majorda panchayat computer which is also attached by the
police. There was no letter head but only the designation of the advocate
general typed along with the address of his office. Also, the signature of the
advocate general was a forged one.
What made Halarnkar go to the Chicalim panchayat
was to misplace the inward-outwad book and tear off the pages from the minutes
book of the panchayat, as the panchayat had taken a resolution on September 30
to pay the said amount to the BDO. On October 15, Halarnkar entered the
panchayat during lunch break and sent others down to get some books and in the
meantime she is suspected to have torn off the pages.
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