Team Herald
PANJIM: The Panjim Zonal Office of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has initiated a probe against Mandrem MLA Jit Arolkar in the land grabbing of property at Dhargalim of which California-based Rawloo Khalap is a co-owner.
On being summoned, Khalap accompanied by Adv Aires Rodrigues and Adv Gautam Malgaonkar on Thursday appeared before ED Joint Director Anup Singh Rauthan and gave him complete details of the alleged modus operandi by Arolkar in land grabbing.
Adv Rodrigues on December 2 last year had filed a complaint with ED on behalf of Khalap giving details of alleged the land scams by Arolkar. In the complaint Arolkar was accused of illegally grabbing land admeasuring 1,48,800 square metres at Dhargalim village in Pernem of which RawlooKhalap is a co-owner and of selling it after unlawfully converting it into over 200 plots.