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Uncategorized October 17, 2025 , by

When Ravi Naik was the chief minister in the 90s, albeit briefly, Goa’s politics was full of intrigues, corruption and some bit of principled governance

THIS happened in Goa in July 1990 when the late Ravi Naik was the chief minister. There was a very corrupt police officer, Y R Dhuriya, who had been posted as inspector general of police (IGP) in the State.
He would coerce his officers to present him with Scotch bottles and free holidays in five-star hotels. Dhuriya was the most hated person within the police department. One of the police inspectors (PIs) leaked the information on his corruption to the media.
Dhuriya decided to take revenge against the media. In those days, there was a very informal relationship between the ministers, babulok and the media. Reporters had free access to the Adil Shah Palace, from where the government functioned.
Dhuriya passed an order restricting entry of the media into the palace. He made a rule for the reporters to fill up long forms – Naam, Baap Ka Naam, etc. The media was furious. It went on a strike in front of the police headquarter, squatting there and blocking the entrance.
On the same morning, Ravi had come to see me around 8am. Ravi was rumored to have had a torrid affair with the daughter of the then president of the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC).
Let us call her Urmila. Ravi had heard the owner of Ramada Hotel (now called Advani Hotels & Resorts) Sunder Advani had videotaped the adulterous couple, and that I was in possession of the Ramada tape.
Ravi sat in silence, perched on the edge of my rocking chair, for an hour. I knew why he had come, I let him stew. He finally asked me if I had the tape. I set his mind at ease. I told him Urmilla’s mother had no grouse about her dalliance.
The husband, a shipper, had also not protested. It appeared to be a private consensual relationship. I was not interested in moral policing and told him to go in peace. I only asked him to provide power connection to the Aivao tribal village at the foot of the Raj Bhavan hillock where my maid resided.
Ravi returned to the Adil Shah Palace. Within half-an-hour, I got a call from him, would I could come over to his office and resolve the impasse over the media stand-off with Dhuriya? He sent his official car and I was ferried to the government headquarters.
This was during my steroid days after my beating up by goons who had got a “supari” to kill me allegedly by the then Speaker Dayanand Narvekar (in a sexual molestation case which I was focusing on at that time). Post-beating up I would get into wild mood swings. As I entered the old Secretariat in Panjim, Dhuriya was coming in. Seeing me, he called me “garam.” I was bristling and was escorted to the conference room. Everyone was there – the chief secretary (CS) and senior ministers.
I asked Chief Minister Ravi Naik if he had passed the order putting curbs on the entry of media to the Secretariat. Ravi shook his head and said, No. I asked the CS, who also replied in the negative. I hurled ma behen ki gali at the IGP as I shouted, “Who authorized you to issue the orders?”
Ravi cancelled the order. The furious IGP waved his fist at me and said, “Come out and I will show you.” I went directly to the Panjim Police Station and Umesh Gaonkar, one of Dhuriya’s victims, got up and saluted me. He registered my complaint of criminal intimidation by the IGP. A furious Dhuriya ordered my arrest on the charge of abusing a senior police officer. Alex Rasquinha, who was the deputy superintendent of police (DySP) at that time, came to my basement flat in Dona Paula.
He got me admitted to the Trinity Hospital at Campal. Dhuriya’s chamchas (sycophants in English) came soon after to arrest me. My man Friday told them I had gone out and he did not know when I would return.
They camped there all night. In the morning, my lawyer Joseph Vaz, got me anticipatory bail. When Ravi Naik heard of all this he suspended Dhuriya and had him transferred back to Delhi.

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