Team Herald
MAPUSA: With each passing day the Mamlatdar of Bardez, Rahul Dessai, who continues in office, potentially has the chance to tamper and do away with incriminating evidence against him, in serious cases of land fraud, under which he has been booked.
While there were complaints lodged way back in June, he is now officially booked under two cases, with wide-ranging reports of the scam he allegedly supervised, being much more widespread.
On June 1, the Mapusa Police registered an offence in the land grabbing case.
The police had booked five persons including Bardez Mamlatdar Rahul Desai.
The complaints were under Sections 465, 467, 468, 471, 419, 420 r/w 34 IPC based on the complaint filed by Esperanca Oliveira, a resident of Anjuna against Branca Cassiana Diniz alias Branca Rodrigues, Paulina Diniz alias Palmira Gonsalves and Mariano Gonsalves, supposedly but not really, all residents of Cuncolim, Royson Rodrigues, a resident of Chaudi in Canacona as well as Rahul Desai, the Bardez Mamlatdar.
The 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.
And yet Dessai continues to serve under the same jurisdiction, in the same position in which he has clearly been charged with misuse of power.
The complainants charged him of being an active stakeholder in the fraudulent transfer and mutation of properties, with “common intention, fraudulently and knowingly produced the forged documents of the landed property before the concerned authorities.”
He is being probed for his role in illegally transferring the rights over the landed property by depriving the legal heirs of enjoying their rights thereby cheating them of the landed property.
While common Goans wait for years at times to get their properties mutated, the Bardez Mamlatdar went out of his way to illegally expedite the mutation process beyond imaginable time periods and completed the entire process in a whirlwind three days, including serving notices for objection to false addresses.
The question is, why is the government including the Revenue Minister of Goa waiting to act when the charges are serious and the Mamlatdar has ample opportunity to tamper the documentation to suit him?
