Former Goa CM Kamat closed in case of 135 -CR mining lease – Times of India

Panaji: A special court discharged former Goa Chief Minister and BJP’s MLA MLA on Friday Digambar Kamat In Kadnekar Mines Cases of alleged condensation of delay in renovation of their mining lease, resulting in a loss of Rs 135 crore to the state treasury. Pifin was also discharged in the case.
An SIT filed a 700-page charge sheet against Kamat, government officials and others in February 2018, and recorded statements of 25 witnesses. Kamat – Then the Congress CM caught the portfolio of the mines – allowed the delay to be condemned by eliminating the comments of two IAS officers, the SIT said.
The charge sheet said that the state government had no powers to allow delay condemnation.
Justice MB Shah Commission, which investigated the scam, saw many mining companies to use the delayed section of delays for renewal of their leases.
Commission faced loss through alleged Mining scam 35,000 crore rupees.
The then-SP (Crime Branch) Karthik Kashyap said that taking advantage of the condensation of the Kadnekar family located in the Marg in Goa, an agreement was signed with the Magnum Minerals Private Limited, which transferred the rights of lease without the center to the center. Went. And allowed the approval of the state government and to mines iron ore.
Kashyap said that according to data provided by Kadnekar mines, the state’s treasury had damaged the tune of Rs 135 crore.