{"id":38667,"date":"2015-08-17T10:15:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T10:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=38667"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:15:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T10:15:26","slug":"court-rejects-churchill-alemaos-bail-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-rejects-churchill-alemaos-bail-plea","title":{"rendered":"Court rejects Churchill Alemao&#8217;s bail plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37805\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/jail.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37805\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/4-years-jail-to-24-year-old-youth-for-stabbing-man\/jail-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/jail.jpg?fit=281%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"281,180\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"jail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/jail.jpg?fit=281%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-37805 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/jail.jpg?resize=281%2C180&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Court rejects Churchill Alemao's bail plea\" width=\"281\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Court rejects Churchill Alemao&#8217;s bail plea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A local court on Monday rejected the bail plea of Goa&#8217;s former Public Works Department Minister Churchill Alemao arrested in connection with the Louis Berger bribery case.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>District Judge B P Deshpande rejected the bail application of Alemao.\u00a0Alemao was arrested on the night of August 5 by the state Crime Branch.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He was the state PWD minister when officials of the US-based company Louis Berger allegedly paid bribes to win consultancy for water augmentation and sewerage pipeline project under Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He was arrested under various sections of Prevention of Corruption Act and 120 (B) of the Indian Penal Code, police had earlier said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Alemao, however, had maintained that the allegations were politically motivated.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Apart from Alemao, three others &#8211; former vice president of Louis Berger Satyakam Mohanty, head of JICA-aided project in Goa Anand Wachasunder and alleged hawala dealer Raychand Soni &#8211; were earlier arrested by the police in connection with the bribery scandal.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Former state Chief Minister Digambar Kamat was also questioned twice by the investigators in connection with the case.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Fearing arrest in the case, Kamat earlier moved the district court for anticipatory bail.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The arguments on his bail plea are over and the court is scheduled to pronounce its order on August 19.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local court on Monday rejected the bail plea of Goa&#8217;s former Public Works Department Minister Churchill Alemao arrested in connection with the Louis Berger bribery case. 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Alemao, 66, who is currently lodged in Colvale jail, had applied for bail in the Goa bench of Bombay High Court. 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