India Today: Panaji: Monday, November 20, 2017.
The
privileges committee of the Goa Assembly has summoned an RTI activist over
posting on social media a question raised by an MLA before it was tabled in the
House.
Under
Secretary (Legislature) Ligia Godinho has asked activist Kashinath Shetye to
remain present before the Assemblys committee of privileges tomorrow.
"Whereas
a complaint raising alleged breach of privilege on your part has been referred
to the committee of privileges and the said committee is seized of the matter,
you are hereby summoned to appear in person, without fail, before the committee
on November 20," reads the summon, signed on November 16.
The
49-year-old anti-corruption campaigner had allegedly posted on his Facebook
page the question, pertaining to him, which was submitted to the Speaker by BJP
MLA Nilesh Cabral before the starting of the last Assembly session.
Cabral had
raised an objection as the question and the answer were posted on Facebook allegedly
by Shetye before being tabled on the floor of the House.
When contact,
the activist, who is also a government servant, declined to comment on the
matter.
Shetye has
filed several cases related to environment and other issues against government
departments before the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court and the National
Green Tribunal in Pune. PTI RPS GK JMF
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