Through PTI
PANAJI: Activist Aires Rodrigues on Tuesday filed an enchantment earlier than the Goa Leader Secretary in opposition to an order of the Excise Commissioner in a case relating the debatable ‘Foolish Souls Café and Bar’ at Assagao.
Opposition Congress had attempted to hyperlink the eating place to the circle of relatives of Union Minister Smriti Irani, an allegation she had denied.
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In an October 10 order, Excise Commissioner Narayan Gad allowed Foolish Souls Café and Bar’s excise license, renewed within the identify of the past due Anthony D’Gama, to be transferred to his widow.
“Beneath phase 40 of the Goa Excise Act, an enchantment in opposition to excise commissioner’s order lies earlier than the manager secretary,” Rodrigues advised PTI.
Within the enchantment, he claimed {that a} licence received `illegally and via fraud’ may just now not had been transferred within the identify of D’Gama’s widow.
In his grievance filed with the Excise Commissioner on July 20, 2022, Rodrigues had alleged that the licence was once issued illegally in January 2021 within the identify of D’Gama, and renewed in his identify in June 2022 a yr after his loss of life.
PANAJI: Activist Aires Rodrigues on Tuesday filed an enchantment earlier than the Goa Leader Secretary in opposition to an order of the Excise Commissioner in a case relating the debatable ‘Foolish Souls Café and Bar’ at Assagao.
Opposition Congress had attempted to hyperlink the eating place to the circle of relatives of Union Minister Smriti Irani, an allegation she had denied.
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In an October 10 order, Excise Commissioner Narayan Gad allowed Foolish Souls Café and Bar’s excise license, renewed within the identify of the past due Anthony D’Gama, to be transferred to his widow.
“Beneath phase 40 of the Goa Excise Act, an enchantment in opposition to excise commissioner’s order lies earlier than the manager secretary,” Rodrigues advised PTI.
Within the enchantment, he claimed {that a} licence received `illegally and via fraud’ may just now not had been transferred within the identify of D’Gama’s widow.
In his grievance filed with the Excise Commissioner on July 20, 2022, Rodrigues had alleged that the licence was once issued illegally in January 2021 within the identify of D’Gama, and renewed in his identify in June 2022 a yr after his loss of life.
