Times of India: Margao: Friday, 25 June 2021.
Salcete mamlatdar Prataprao Gaonkar has filed a complaint with the Fatorda police against several individuals for having produced forged copies of sale deeds for carrying out mutation entries in the land ownership records in the office of the mamlatdar.
The offences which were committed between 2018 and 2019 and came to light a few months back after the original landowners applied for information under the RTI Act pertaining to the mutation cases, as they maintained that they had not sold their properties in question to anybody. The complaint pertains to 13 files submitted for mutation involving 4-5 properties, sources said.
Interestingly, while the files went missing from the office, inquiries by the mamlatdar’s office with the office of the sub-registrar revealed that no such sale deeds were ever registered in the office. The documents were thus found to be forged.
The original land owners then filed an appeal in the case before the court of the deputy collector which ruled that that the properties in question be reverted to the appelants.
Following a hearing conducted in the matter in the court of the deputy collector, the land ownership was, however, reverted to the original land owners, it was informed.
Salcete mamlatdar Prataprao Gaonkar has filed a complaint with the Fatorda police against several individuals for having produced forged copies of sale deeds for carrying out mutation entries in the land ownership records in the office of the mamlatdar.
The offences which were committed between 2018 and 2019 and came to light a few months back after the original landowners applied for information under the RTI Act pertaining to the mutation cases, as they maintained that they had not sold their properties in question to anybody. The complaint pertains to 13 files submitted for mutation involving 4-5 properties, sources said.
Interestingly, while the files went missing from the office, inquiries by the mamlatdar’s office with the office of the sub-registrar revealed that no such sale deeds were ever registered in the office. The documents were thus found to be forged.
The original land owners then filed an appeal in the case before the court of the deputy collector which ruled that that the properties in question be reverted to the appelants.
Following a hearing conducted in the matter in the court of the deputy collector, the land ownership was, however, reverted to the original land owners, it was informed.
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