Goemkarponn desk
PANAJI: Special Investigation Team (SIT) has registered two FIRs against Bardez Mamlatdar Rahul Dessai in the Anjuna land grabbing case.
Based on the complaint filed by Esperanca Oliveira, a resident of Anjuna, the police had booked Branca Cassiana Diniz alias Branca Rodrigues, Paulina Diniz alias Palmira Gonsalves and Mariano Gonsalves, all residents of Cuncolim Royson Rodrigues from Chaudi, Canacona and Rahul Desai the then Mamlatdar of Bardez under Sections 465, 467, 468, 471, 419 and 420 read with 34 of the IPC.
The police said the accused dishonestly forged the documents in respect of property in Survey Number 493/3 of Anjuna village, admeasuring 15,400 square metres and in respect of identity, impersonated as legal heirs of the property.
The accused, with their common intention, fraudulently produced the forged documents before the concerned authorities and transferred the property rights by depriving the legal heirs of enjoying their legal rights, thereby cheating them.
IGP Ombir Singh said that most of the 95 cases under the SIT’s scanner were in areas of Anjuna, Assagao, Badem, Calangute, Mapusa, Nerul, Parra and Reis Magos in North Goa and some from Vasco and Margao in South Goa.
“The cases are mostly from coastal areas where the value of land is higher,” Singh said.
Goa government had constituted an SIT on June 15 to probe cases of illegal land grabs.