While the Personnel department is examining the proposal, CB is also awaiting the report of hundreds of handwriting samples sent to the Government Examiner of Questioned Documents (GEQD), Hyderabad. Sources said the analysis would further help CB establish the guilt of the accused.
The investigating agency has indicted nearly 25-30 persons, including 12 government servants, in the land scam, which is under investigation for over a year now. The alleged corrupt officials had earlier moved the High Court of Bombay at Goa challenging the sanction letter for prosecution after which the government decided to issue a fresh one.
“The officials had challenged the move to prosecute them. The public prosecutor had then submitted to the court that it will revoke its sanction letter for prosecution. The CB then re-sent a fresh proposal for prosecution,” a senior bureaucrat told Herald.
Sources said the sanction letter, which is shortly expected, would have serious charges of corruption against the accused. “At the time when the previous sanction letter was sent, about 90 percent of the investigation was complete and by now, the State is informed that the CB has completed the probe pending forensic report,” he said.
Hundreds of handwriting samples of the accused and case related documents of the beneficiaries were sent to the GEQD during the investigation stage. In the absence of the crucial report, the CB is forced to delay filing the indictment.
Former clerk with the Serula comunidade Mohan Narvekar, attorney Agnelo Lobo, Taleigao panchayat secretary Peter Martins, Mohammad Hanif Badekhan, Altaf Abdul Khan, Santosh Gajinkar, Kishor Kudnekar, Sanyakta Nagvekar, Sonia Wankade, Reginald Lobo and Alister Lobo are among many others booked in the multi-crore scam.
The allegations are essentially that the comunidade had not maintained records of the land allotment and neither did it have records of cash transfers. Government’s interim report had pointed out misappropriation of several crores of rupees, and information of the total number of plots, leased plots and the vacant plots were missing.
Meanwhile, the deputy collector has revoked the conversion of sanads based on information from the investigating agency, about three months ago.
