Team Herald
PANJIM: The Special Investigating Team (SIT) probing land grabbing cases on Sunday searched the residence of former Bardez Mamlatdar Rahul Dessai at Caranzalem for five hours.
The SIT sources said that they sought information about Dessai’s bank accounts, property and assets belonging to him and his family. However, police refused to divulge whether they recovered any incriminating documents during the search.
Dessai who was posted as Momrugao Mamlatdar and is suspected to be involved in the alleged land grabbing cases, was arrested by the SIT on September 29 after quizzing him for several hours. As many as five cases have been registered against him while, many complainants have also named him as one of the accused in their complaints.
According to SIT sources, Dessai’s involvement had come to light after the main accused Royson Rodrigues of Siolim confessed to the police that he had allegedly connived with Dessai to forge property documents.
Meanwhile, Dessai will be produced before the Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC), Mapusa on Monday for further remand after the end of his three-day police custody.