By IANS,
Panaji : Controversial Goa legislator and former tourism minister Francisco alias Mickky Pacheco was sentenced by the Margao trial court to one year imprisonment for assaulting a government employee.
The court, however, suspended the sentence for a month, allowing the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) legislator to file appeal.
In 2006, Kapil Natekar a junior engineer, had filed a complaint against Pacheco, after the latter assaulted him in his office.
Pacheco has several complaints registered against him ranging from bigamy, culpable homicide, assault, extortion, money laundering, human trafficking and the like.
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