PANJIM: The Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) on Tuesday registered First Information Report (FIR) against the former Sarpanch of Reis Magos Village Panchayat Prasanna Nagvekar and its former Secretary Subodh Prabhu.
The FIR comes in the wake of Lokayukta report suggesting criminal proceedings against the two, besides a landowner.
In September 2020, the Goa Lokayukta office ordered criminal proceedings against the former sarpanch and former secretary of Reis Magos panchayat for misuse of power in a bid to authenticate existence of five ‘houses’ as 100-year-old structures so as to grant protection to the property from the purview of Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ).
According to the then Lokayukta, the former sarpanch, the former panchayat secretary and the then panch members blindly – without making any attempt to verify the structures – passed the resolution on the same day of receiving the application for house tax registration. It states that the then panchayat granted house numbers in May 2017 to all the structures ‘for illegal benefits by defrauding the provisions relating to the CRZ’.
