The Goa Police on Thursday moved the High Court challenging the anticipatory bail granted to former chief minister Digambar Kamat in the Louis Berger case.
The crime branch of the Goa Police also carried out searches at four different places that are connected to the former chief minister of the state.
The Crime Branch officials were accompanied by sleuths of Enforcement Directorate (ED) which has also registered a case regarding the scandal.
According to the police official, the searches were being conducted at four different places in Margao and Panaji towns.
Kamat has his residence in Margao while the home of his relative in Panaji was also searched.
The investigators are looking for a crucial file which has been missing. The file has notings which were used to award the consultancy to US-based firm Louis Berger for a project funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
The Crime Branch has named Kamat and former PWD Minister Churchill Alemao among others in the bribery case.
Kamat has been charged with tampering with evidence in the case.
Several top leaders of the then Kamat-led Goa government are accused of taking bribes from Louis Berger officials to award a water development project contract to the US based consultancy firm in 2010.
The Crime Branch action came a day after the 61-year- old Congress leader, who had been questioned by the police twice in connection with the case, secured the pre-arrest bail from a district court.
The case came to light when Louis Berger admitted to have paid bribe to a Goa minister for consultancy contract for a water project funded by JICA.
The police recently slapped an additional charge of 'causing disappearance of evidence' against Kamat under section 201 of IPC. Earlier, he was charged under IPC section 120-B (conspiracy) and the Prevention of Corruption Act.
(With PTI Inputs)
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