WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2024
Team Herald
Mapusa: Finally. Mapusa police have written letters to concerned departments including Archives, Sub-registrar, the Deputy Collector, and mamlatdar asking for documents related to the Anjuna land grabbing case.
While this concerns just one case, it is enough to open the tightly shut pandora's box of land grabbing, through impersonation, of almost one lakh square meters in Bardez by fake land transfers and forged signatures of deceased people.
Mapusa PI Paresh Naik said, "We have written letters to all the concerned departments asking for
documents pertaining to the case. Once we get the documents, they will be examined and further action in this matter will be taken up", Naik said.
It can be recalled that on June 1, the Mapusa police had registered an offence in the land grabbing case and had booked five persons including Bardez Mamlatdar Rahul Desai.
Mapusa police have registered offenses under Section 465, 467, 468, 471, 419, 420 r/w 34 IPC based on the complainant filed by Esperanca Oliveira a resident of Anjuna against Branca Cassiana Diniz alias Branca Rodrigues Paulina Diniz alias Palmira Gonsalves and Mariano Gonsalves all residents of Cuncolim, Royson Rodrigues resident of Chaudi in Canacona as well as Rahul Desai, the Bardez Mamlatdar.
The accused persons had dishonestly prepared forged documents in respect of landed property survey No. 493/3 of Village Anjuna admeasuring 15,400 Square meters and in respect of the identity of legal heirs of landed property by impersonating legal heirs of the property.
As per the FIR, all accused with their “Common intention, fraudulently and knowingly produced the forged documents of the landed property before the concerned authorities and succeeded in transferring the rights over the landed property by depriving the legal heirs of enjoying their legal rights thereby cheated the legal heirs of the landed property.
It can be recalled that Herald has highlighted this issue of land grabbing where groups of people had allegedly transferred and grabbed the land of niz Goenkars from Badem, Anjuna, Assago, and Parra.
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District Registrar to conduct inquiry after North District Registrar goes on “sick leave”
PANJIM: District Registrar (Headquarters) Arjun Shetye will now conduct an inquiry into the alleged land grabbing complaints reported in the villages of Bardez taluka.
State Registrar-cum-Head of Notary Services Ashutosh Apte said that Shetye will now probe the complaints since the North District Registrar Vassudev Hadkonkar, who was earlier conducting the inquiry has gone on sick leave. It is not clear what the source of the sickness is.
Apte said that though no time has been given for inquiry, the District Registrar will find out how these properties were registered and whether it tallies with the records available with the State Registrar. The District Registrar will check whether the proper procedures were followed and whether documentation were in order.
According to Apte, the State Registrar had received some complaints regarding land grabbing by fraudulent means at Badem-Assagao and Anjuna villages. In one complaint signed by many villagers have suspected that the properties of the entire village had been grabbed by impersonation and registering forged documents while demanding a thorough investigation into it.
