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Subject: FW: Goan properties: UK citizens petition Brown
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From: MACIEL, MELVILLE [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 2009, June, 23 3:50 PM
To: 'Robbins, Amabel'; 'Vilma'; Lobo, Nash (RBC Dexia IS); 'D'Souza, Greg';
'[email protected]'; D'Souza, Sandra; 'Malcolm Noronha'
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Goan properties: UK citizens petition Brown
23 Jun 2009, 0324 hrs IST, AGENCIES
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LONDON: Several British citizens who bought property in Goa have petitioned
prime minister Gordon Brown to request the Indian government to resolve
the impasse in which properties purchased by foreign nationals were not
being registered.
Over 125 people have signed the petition on the 10, Downing Street website.
The petition, led by Andrew F Davies, has been initiated amidst reports of
British citizens facing several problems in purchasing and registering
properties in Goa.
The petition said, "We petition the prime minister to approach the
government of India and request them to take cognizance of and correct the
unlawful actions of the state government of Goa whereby the sub-registrars
of Goa have been instructed not to order the registration of deeds relating
to the sale of immovable property where one of the parties to the
transaction is a foreign national."
"This is in direct contravention of the 1908 Registration Act. We would also
ask that the Indian government be asked to ensure that the department of
revenue, Directorate of Enforcement acts judiciously when investigating
alleged infringements of FEMA and is not being used to harass foreign
nationals who have bought property in Goa."
The petitioners noted that until August 2006, the sub-registrars were
accepting foreigners' deeds, and added that nearly 400 British citizens who
had bought property before August 2006 are now being investigated by the
Directorate of Enforcement with the threat of confiscation.
The petition added, "Around 50,000 persons of Goan birth or descent now live
in the UK. The petitioners hope that they are happy here and are treated
fairly and justly, and ask only that the government of Goa should extend the
same courtesies to the few hundreds of foreign nationals who are full or
part time residents of Goa."
"The rule of law is central to the operation of democracy, and a central
pillar of law is the protection of persons and property. In India any
transfer of property, by any means and for any purpose, is required to be
registered. Thus to deny registration is to undermine the very basis of the
rule of law and of democracy."
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