- A chargesheet was filed on Friday against Goa Sports Minister Ramesh Tawadkar, seven years after he barged into the office of a senior forest officer at Cotigao Wildlife Sanctuary and forcefully took away two persons in custody there.
- Tawadkar is a BJP leader and is one of the eight accused named by the police.
- Tawadkar has been booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for unlawful assembly, rioting and criminal trespass.
- Social activist and advocate Aires Rodrigues recently served a legal notice to the state Chief Secretary for delay in the filing of the charge sheet against the ruling politician.
(With PTI inputs.)
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