Former Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, who by virtue of the fact that he was Mines Minister for 12 continuous years, is accused of lording over a massive Rs 35,000 crore mining scam in the State, appeared before the State-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT).
Kamat, however, refused to entertain queries from the media regarding his one-and-a-half-hour long quizzing. Kamat, now a Congress MlA, former director mines and geology Arvind lolienkar and former secretary law VP Shetye were among others summoned by the Crime Branch and who visited the office responding to summons issued to them as part of the probe into the scam exposed by the Justice MB Shah Commission. The case registered by the police is being tackled by a specially constituted SIT. The case was filed long after the Shah Commission report was tabled in Parliament in autumn 2012 Politicians, bureaucrats, both the State and Central Governments and even mining companies have been indicated by Shah Commission in the report.