A Profligate Government

A “cranky” Russian

When a Russian teenager was found dead recently, a Russian consulate official came here apparently on a fact-finding mission as well as to complete some formalities. A little bird says that the official was “cranky” even during a meeting with Chief Minister Digambar Kamat. It’s almost as if he blamed the government for the young girl’s death when we all know that drug rumours swirled around her after her death. The normally reticent CM apparently showed his irritation with the official’s attitude. An official in on the meeting pointed out that the consular official got easy access to the CM (because that’s how we are, given the circumstances). When Indians died under a cloud in Russia, relatives were forced to run from pillar to post. Forget a high ranking politician, even meeting a top cop in Russia can be ruled out despite glasnost/perestroika.

Goa government’s profligacy

Forget MLAs who seem to have no scruples crossing floors into the arms of the highest bidder, even the Goa government is short on morals and often does not do the right thing. In fact it is the government which tacitly encourages MLAs to do their own thing and then goes to court to litigate thereby piling up work, not to speak of fees, for its lawyers. No wonder then there are so many around. Below is a list of the fees paid to various government lawyers, special counsels, senior counsels etc to appear before the Bombay High Court, tribunals, arbitrators etc from February 11, 2005 till date.

Total fees paid to various government lawyers, special counsels, senior counsels, advocates on records to appear before the Bombay High Court, tribunals, arbitrators etc February 11, 2005 till date.

1 Emercio Afonso 3,16,450
2 Shaikh Vahidulla 4,99,100
3 Winnie Courinho 1,727,806
4 Atancio Cardoz 2,08,600
5 SR Rivonkar 929,000
6 Sanjiv G Sardessai 93,250
7 Guru Shirodkar 1,069,000
8 NK Sawaikar 97,300
9 HD NAik 64,000
10 Shri K Y Thally 3,00,650
11 Shri PA kamat 1,55,100
12 SN Sardessai 2,52,000
13 HR Bharne 1,47,500
14 Parmanand Naik 2,05,400
15 Antancio Monteiro 1,26,350
16 GV Tamba 86,500
17 MP Sawaikar 1,35,500
18 RR Sangodkar 44,000
19 BV Sukhtankar 9,925
20 GD Kirtani 9,81,950
21 Rajesh Narvenkar 1,80,000
22 VP Thally 78,000
23 Susan Linhares 2,89,200
24 SN Shinde 19,300
25 EP Lobo 1,71,250
26 Datta Prasad V Prabhu Lawande 44,000
27 Nilesh A Takkekar 33,000
28 Sarvesh S Kamat Malyekar 33,000
29 Santosh H Bharne 14,700
30 Amol Thaly 26,500
31 Pratapsingh M Nimbalkar 38,300
32 JV Coelho 29,500
33 MS Joshi 1,71,000
34 John S Lobo 55,500
35 Rakhi M Chodankar 11,25,000
36 Gauri DS Bhosle 5,35,000
37 Leena Dharwadkar 7,65,500
38 Kanchan Chodankar 2,41,500
39 Vallabh Pangum 14,650
40 Manish Salkar 7,09,200
41 Subhash Pundalik Sawant 43,133
42 Harsha Naik 41,550
43 Agnelo D’Costa 2,14,050
44 Carlose Ferria 1,11,500
45 Dilip P Dabholkar 1,82,200
46 Irshad Aga 47,700
47 Durga Kinlekar 14,800
48 Rabindranath Menezes 2,64,750
49 Kishore P Prabhudessai 1,84,923
50 Talentina Xavier 1,51,200
51 Prashant Kamat 4,27,000
52 AT Kamat, govt counsel 23,450
53 Nitin NN Sardessai 2,53,000
54 RM Lotlikar 11,70,981
55 Albino C Vales 22,200
56 Prashant V Borkar 3,88,350
57 TG Jaques 2,36,100
58 Jayant Prabhu 11,400
59 VM Patkar 2,100
60 Abhijeet Kamat 2,11,000
61 Rajendra G Raut Dessai 74,950
62 Kala Dalal 16,800
63 Kishor Bhagat 7,000
64 Sapna Mordekar 1,40,000
65 Milagries P Fernandes 12,75,800
66 Vivek Rodrigues 73,500
67 Sameer A Bandodkar 49,000
68 I C Dias 2,43,855
69 Vinoj Daniel 2,86,824
70 SB Faria 2,22,000
71 Ramkrishna Bhale 5,700
72 Ignasious Dias 92,300
73 Vijay Nadkarni 4,50,000
74 Gauranj Sirsat 77,400
75 CR Rodrigues 33,900
76 Peter Fernandes 72,400
77 R G Bhale 54,300

TOTAL 1,92,09,597


Total fees paid to SC lawyers from February 11, 2005 till date

1 Anip Sachthey 6,24,400
2 Madhu Sikri 33,000
3 Harin P Rawal 100,000
4 Shriniwas S Khalap 200,000
5 Huzefa Ahmadi 160,000
6 Anupam Las Das 33,000
7 KK Venugopal 880,000
8 K Parasaran 1,072,500
9 A Subhasini 157,645
10 Srinivas R Khalap 535,922
11 S K Kakodkar 315,000
12 Nimalini Gore 30,000
13 F S Nariman 385,000
14 Uday U Lalit 33,000
15 R N Karanjawala 59,000

Total 46,18,467

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