Joe Boy alias Jose Lopes, who was earlier wanted by Goa police for plotting to kill Home Minister Ravi Naik's son, Roy, has filed his candidature for the forthcoming State legislative assembly elections.

Lopes is contesting as an independent from St Cruz constituency, an area dotting the capital city of Panaji, notorious for hyper sensitive polling stations. Chimbel and Merces -- two villages in this constituency -- are already been declared as troubled spots. But Lopes does not want to associate himself with any of this trouble.