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Wendell attends court for derogatory statement
BY HERALD REPORTER
PANJIM, JAN 21 – It was Wendell Rorigues’s day in the Court today who was summoned for allegedly making derogatory statement against High Court judges.
Wearing his signature white curta, prominent fashion designer was seated in the front row of the court room, to answer the show cause notice issued to him, for his alleged offensive statement, which was published in the December 28, 2007, issue of the local magazine.
Rodrigues in his column had said, “Why are the High Court judges so blatantly bought over for Aldeia de Goa. I was in the Court room when I saw Norma Alvares stand her case. It was obvious that the judges were bought.”
The editor of the weekly was also present in response to the show cause notice issued against him for contempt of court.
The suo motto contempt petition however was disposed off in view of the unqualified and unconditional apologies tendered by both.
Division Bench of Justices D B Bhosale and N A Britto accepted the written apologies tendered in respect to the objectionable matter.
The magazine editor has been asked to publish apology with the same prominence on full page in the first issue of the magazine next month.
