Team Herald
MAPUSA: The Mapusa police probing into the issue of missing sale deeds from the Sub-Registrar's office, Mapusa, suspect the role of an insider in the theft case.
The Police have asked the office to furnish details of buyers and sellers, CCTV footages and the name of the official in-charge of sale deeds. The cops are trying to find out how three sale deeds were stolen and whether any official was involved.
Meanwhile, the citizens have hit out at the Sub-Registrar’s office claiming that no files move until some dealing hands are greased. They have demanded that the investigations be handed to Crime Branch, Ribandar, so as to bring it to its logical conclusion.
Rajendra Kerkar, another citizen from Sangolda has complained that even birth records were missing and some destroyed and the applicants are made to run from pillar to post for no fault of theirs. “I have been made to struggle for the last one month to get my birth certificate which is now missing from the Sub-Registrar’s office. I even submitted an original copy for their reference but when I went to claim for the Theor, I was told that it could not traced,” he said.
Most of the birth records prior to 19170 are missing from the Sub-Registrar’s office and applicants are facing undue hardships with the official least concerned, some citizens informed. “The public are forced to swear affidavitis for the missing documents which are lost or damaged in the custody of the Registrar’s office. This is ridiculous. The officials have to be pulled up for dereliction of duty,” said another person who was made to do innumerable trips to obtained his birth certificate that was destroyed here.