Until a fortnight ago Goa’s Cabinet Minister for Archives and Archaeology Francisco alias Mickky Pacheco drove to work a Hummer, an SUV which costs upwards of Rs 45 lakh.
Sometimes he went work at the state secretariat riding on his customised Harley Davidson bike with a gleaming silver skull for a headlight guard.
One simply could not miss him. But over the last few days, Pacheco is missing since he was forced to resign from the cabinet after the Supreme Court on March 30 upheld his sentence and guilt in an assault case involving a government servant.
No stranger to controversy, the until-recently-a-minister in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led coalition government is now on the run, with police even forming a special squad to track down the Nuvem legislator and the supremo of the Goa Vikas Party, whose two legislators, including Pacheco himself, are part of the ruling alliance.
"A look-out circular (LOC) has also been issued at all immigration checkposts," said Superintendent of Police Shekhar Prabhudessai.