HOW’S THAT?

SURAJ NANDREKAR

suraj@herald-goa.com

PANJIM: Since 2014, the illegalities in the Serula Comunidade land allotment have been in the news for the wrong reasons with a former minister entangled in the controversy. 

But here is a story of how the illegalities were given cover and how a dead man comes out of the grave almost 12 years later to transfer Serula Comunidade land in his name.

The matter pertains to 2 mutation cases bearing case no 62087 and 64896 of Socorro village

Former joint Mamlatdar Ranjeet Salgaonkar, who is under suspension with regards to his role in some other mutation cases of similar nature, has also carried out the above mutation cases.

The above mentioned land belongs to the Comunidade of Serula and admeasures 7975 sq mts. 

It is pertinent to note here that the Revenue Department has put a restriction on the transfer/mutation of Comunidade land vide circular no 17/24/2008 RD (3919) dated 10/07/2009. As per the said circular prior permission of government is required to be obtained if the name of Comunidade is to be deleted.

However, the guidelines in the said circular have been overlooked while dealing with the above mutation nos.

The applicant in case no 62087, one Arjun Vazarkar has quoted Comunidade file no 205/1963, which is a file moved soon after liberation.

Although certain documentation requires to be processed on stamp paper and usage of revenue stamps, it is obvious that adhesive stamps used on the applications are Portuguese government stamps, which were not in use at that time.

The applicant is originally shown as Arjuna Mahadeva Naique Ozorcar, married of Socorro and the area of the land on  July 18, 1963 is recorded as 7975 sq mts at that time there were no Form I and XIV existing.

Interestingly, the Form I & XIV bearing No 404/1 of village Socorro, which was made many years later has the same area recorded on it.

The signature on the application dated 18/02/1963 of Arjuna Mahadeva Naique Ozorcar who is supposed to be the same person who applied for mutation vide application dated 25/10/2017 as a completely different signature and the name used on the application is Arjuna Vazarkar. This point is very important and raises high suspicion.

More importantly, the definitive possession is supposed to be given to Arjuna Mahadeva Naique Ozarkar in the year 1969; however, the stamp used is of pre-liberation time and shows the logo of India Portuguesa, which is not possible for documents done in 1969.

Moreover, the date and month has been mysteriously omitted on the record of proceedings of definitive possession and further due to some strange reasons, does not even have any signature of the administrator and so called Grantee of Comunidade land.

As per inventory proceedings Arjuna Naique Ozarcar is supposed to have expired on 17/10/2005. 

Therefore, how could late Arjuna apply for mutation of Comunidade land vide application dated 25/10/2017 appear.

The area of the land involving in this one case is 7975 sq metres and there are other similar types of cases. This reveals that this is an organised crime involving Comunidade officials and government officials to defraud the Comunidade of its prime land.

After the mutation was done of survey Form I & XIV No 404/1 of village Socorro under mutation no 62087 by deleting name of comunidade and adding the name of Arjuna Madeva Naique Vozarcar; thereafter vide application dated 18/06/2018 further mutation was done under case no 64896 using the Inventory order passed in Case no 496/2017/D, which shows that concerned Arjuna could not have been living in 2017 he having expired on 17/10/2005. 

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Action has been initiated and we are looking into all illegal cases: Revenue Minister