<p>Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Thursday said his brother-in-law and another government official caught in a bribery case should be immediately suspended.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The chief minister also promised not to interfere in the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) investigation in the case. "He (Dilip Malvankar) is my relative. One cannot keep track of every relative. Law will take its own course. I never interfere in police investigations," Parsekar said.<br /><br />"Both of them should be suspended immediately from the Industrial Development Corporation," he added. Malvankar, along with Ajit Gaunekar, both field managers at the state government-operated Industrial Development Corporation, were arrested by ACB sleuths on Tuesday night while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs. 1 lakh from the promoter of a Jaipur-based firm, in order to facilitate the allotment of a plot to set up an ayurvedic medicine production project at Tuem industrial estate in north Goa, 45 km from here.<br /><br />The Congress, meanwhile, demanded that Parsekar should give up the home ministry portfolio, fearing his interference into the anti-graft investigation against his brother-in-law Dilip Malvankar. <br /><br />"It is very disgraceful that the chief minister's close relative was caught red-handed by the ACB. The chief minister should give up the home portfolio for a free and fair probe," Congress spokesperson Durgadas Kamat said in a statement here.</p>
<p>Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Thursday said his brother-in-law and another government official caught in a bribery case should be immediately suspended.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The chief minister also promised not to interfere in the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) investigation in the case. "He (Dilip Malvankar) is my relative. One cannot keep track of every relative. Law will take its own course. I never interfere in police investigations," Parsekar said.<br /><br />"Both of them should be suspended immediately from the Industrial Development Corporation," he added. Malvankar, along with Ajit Gaunekar, both field managers at the state government-operated Industrial Development Corporation, were arrested by ACB sleuths on Tuesday night while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs. 1 lakh from the promoter of a Jaipur-based firm, in order to facilitate the allotment of a plot to set up an ayurvedic medicine production project at Tuem industrial estate in north Goa, 45 km from here.<br /><br />The Congress, meanwhile, demanded that Parsekar should give up the home ministry portfolio, fearing his interference into the anti-graft investigation against his brother-in-law Dilip Malvankar. <br /><br />"It is very disgraceful that the chief minister's close relative was caught red-handed by the ACB. The chief minister should give up the home portfolio for a free and fair probe," Congress spokesperson Durgadas Kamat said in a statement here.</p>