Critically-ill Parrikar has been clearing files via email: Goa Congress 

Goa Pradesh Congress Committee filed a police complaint on Friday saying that state Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, undergoing medical treatment in the US for the past 87 days, has been clearing files “allegedly over emails.”

Goa Congress has based their complaint on a Navhind Tmes report from May 31, which alleged that Parrikar has made “information technology (IT) a ‘tool’ to manage the daily affairs of the state administration from abroad, as he has no pending files in his office even though he has been bedridden in a US hospital for almost three months now.

Saying that CM Parrikar’s gravity of illness, as per videos circulated of the Chief Minister,“clearly depicts that he is struggling for breath even while talking on two-minute video,” the complainant Sidhanath Buyao says in his complaint, “there is a grave suspicion as regards to whether the Honorable CM is in fact sending the above emails or the same are being sent by some other individuals using his account thereby raising apprehensions of cheating and fraud, misrepresentation, larger criminal conspiracy to defraud and misrepresenting, cheating by impersonation for larger financial gains by certain individuals.”

The complaint also states that, as per note from the Chief Minister dated February 28, 2018 , doctors treating him have advised to avoid physical contact with files on account of possibility of secondary infection.”

Earlier, the Navhind Times, quoting sources, reported, “ The principal secretary, Krishnamurthy, sends him reports and important matters for his advice and suggestions every evening. An email which is sent every day after office hours by the principal secretary is received by Parrikar in the US during morning hours there and by the next morning, he sends his opinion and suggestions on important matters back to the principal secretary.”

Quoting a “senior official” in the government of Goa, the regional daily reported that “there is not a single file pending in the Chief Minister’s office”. The office of principal secretary, according to Navhind Times’ sourceS, “ is sending him report of bills of payment to be cleared, financial clearances to various departments and other matters every day”.

Goa Congress spokesperson Buyao also said in his complaint, “This particular series of emails should be thoroughly investigated by tracking the IP address from where such emails have been addressed and accordingly investigate the present complain and register offences accordingly against the wrongdoers and alleged individuals.”