Team Goemkarponn
PANAJI: Goa government today has written to the High Court of Bombay At Goa requesting to designate special court to hear and decide cases related with land grabbing.
“To ensure proper prosecution and speedy trial in these cases, the Government has approved the proposal to designate a Special Court to prosecute cases investigated by the SIT (Land Grabbing), Ribandar-Goa,” states the letter written dept of law and judiciary
The letter also requests to place the above proposal before the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court for his concurrence for the designating of the Special Court to prosecute cases investigated by Special Investigation Team (Land Grabbing) Ribandar-Goa, enabling the State Government to issue necessary notification.
“Pursuant to this, police stations across Goa have forwarded registered crimes to the SIT, in addition to those already registered at the Crime Branch, Ribandar-Goa. The SIT is investigating these cases, with some already being charge-sheeted and others nearing disposal,” states
In January 2023, the State government appointed one-man commission headed by Retd Justice of Bombay High Court V K Jadhav to probe land grabbing cases reported in the State. Justice Jadhav submitted his report to Chief Minister Pramod Sawant in November last year.
Sawant had stated that the government will amend the land related laws in the forthcoming Monsoon Session of Goa Assembly so as to prevent cases of land grabbing, and penalise the land grabbers, as per recommendations of one-person commission.
Sawant had also stated that all unclaimed ‘no man land’ which were grabbed by the fraudsters forging Portuguese era documents, will be taken over by the government and around 110 land grabbing cases will be heard in a single court.
