PANJIM: Nearly five months after the government assured to probe illegal transfer and mutation of comunidade land on the floor of the House, the police have registered an offence against 13 persons for the illegality.
The Managing Committee of the Comunidade of Serula alleged that the accused persons including former Attorney A C Lobo hold possessory rights of over property bearing Survey Number 404/1 of an area of 7975 sq mtrs at Socorro.
“All accused persons with their common intention impersonated Arjun Mahadev Vazarkar who actually died in May 2005, by forging his signature on the application dated October 25, 2017 for mutation of the property. Lobo issued NOC illegally without out verifying and accordingly showed forged documents as genuine. They also succeeded in deleting the name of Vazarkar and added their names in the Revenue records, thereby cheating the authorities,” the complaint copy states, based on which the police registered First Information Report on December 26, 2019.
The complainant also sought for taking back the possession of the property and restoring it to the Managing Committee as rightful owner. Then Revenue Minister Rohan Khaunte ahd exposed the alleged scam on the floor of the House after which Chief Minister Pramod Sawant had assured a probe.
Herald had exclusively reported in the detail on the illegality in August 2019 to which Revenue Minister Jennifer Monserrate had said that the department initiated a suo motu revision based on the report of Collector on the mutation cases and the matter is being heard. A Writ Petition in this respect is also pending before the High Court of Bombay at Goa.
The government had also initiated disciplinary action against the Joint Mamlatdar-II by suspending him while also looking into all illegal cases.
