The Crime Branch has informed the Special Judge under the Prevention of Corruption B.P Deshpande that the investigation into the Serula Communidade land grab case against Goa Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar and others is almost complete and that sanction has been sought from the Government to charge sheet the accused.
The Crime Branch informed the Court that only a few statements of members of the General body of the Serula Commsindade remains to be recorded. The Court which is monitoring the investigation of the case adjourned the matter to December 18th. The Mapusa Court had on 16th January this year directed the Porvorim Police to register an FIR for offences under sections 119, 120, 420 read with 120-B of the Indian Penal Code, against Mr. Dilip Parulekar, Mr. Peter Martins, then attorney of Communidade of Serula and Mrs. Irene Sequeira the then Administrator of Communidade of Bardez and to investigate the case. The Porvorim Police registered the F.I.R on 17th January and then later on 4 th April transferred the investigation of the case to the Crime Branch. 599 sq mt of prime land on the Chogm Road at Porvorim was given away to Dilip Parulekar without any auction and without following the procedure contemplated under the Code of Communidade with the whole intention being to fraudulently facilitate the doling out of prime Communidade land to Dilip Parulekar. Communidade of Serula granted the 599 sq. mts to Dilip Parulekar for a mere Rs. 3,41,320/- though the value of the land was otherwise worth more than a crore and Dilip Parulekar in connivance with Peter Martins and Irene Sequeira grabbed this Communidade land at a throw away price by illegal means. The Mapusa JMFC on 14th August had directed the Crime Branch to file a status report every 15 days on the investigation after the Court’s attention was drawn that the police were acting as caged parrots and were intentionally and malafiedly dragging their feet in the investigation of the case just to shield the politically well connected accused Dilip Parulekar. The monitoring of the investigation was last month transferred to the Special Court after the Crime Branch also invoked Sections 13(1) (c) and (d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 against Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar and the other accused. Aires Rodrigues Advocate High Court C/G-2, Shopping Complex Ribandar Retreat, Ribandar – Goa – 403006 Mobile No: 9822684372 Office Tel No: (0832) 2444012 Email: [email protected] Or [email protected] You can also reach me on Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues Twitter@rodrigues_aires
