Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday alleged that some activists with ‘highly questionable’ motives were black-mailing people in high places and even targeting a High Court judge.
“It is also observed that some of the activists whose antecedents and motives are highly questionable are blackmailing and witch-hunting, by filing false cases against person occupying high positions, merely to embarrass them or to blackmail them,” he told the Goa legislative Assembly responding to a calling attention motion.
Parrikar had earlier promised the legislators of a special law to crackdown on ‘rogue’ whistleblowers and NGOs. “While my Government wholeheartedly endorses for any person including activists to bring out a genuine cause which will sub-serve public interest but at the same time blackmailing and witch-hunting cannot be tolerated,” Parrikar also said.
“The most disturbing thing is that a judge of the High Court is also not spared by some of these activists in making false allegations,” he told.