Goa's Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar is mischievously trying to mislead the people of Goa about the recent judgment of the Bombay High Court at Goa regarding the 599 sq mts of prime Serula Communidade land at Porvorim illegally grabbed by the Minister.
Any person with some self respect would have gracefully resigned after that High Court verdict. It is appalling that thick skinned immoral persons like Dilip Parulekar are today occupying high positions. The Tourism Minister should show even a sentence of the judgment that is in his favour. The High Court in its 26 page clear verdict has quashed and set aside the illegal regularization of those 599 sq mts as it was not in accordance with law and the provisions of the Code of Communidade. The High Court has ruled that Dilip Parulekar was an admitted encroacher and could not be allowed to remain on Communidade land once the fact of the unauthorized encroachment was pointed out to the Court. The High Court has ruled that the regularization of only the encroached land should be done in accordance with law. But the current law does not permit it as under Article 380 of the Code of Communidade regularization was possible only in cases of land which is valued at less than Rs 300. Does the Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar need to be reminded that the Judicial Magistrate First Class, had also directed registering of an F.I.R of cheating under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code against him in the very same land grab case. The Court has stated that prima facie the ingredients of the offence had been established against Dilip Parulekar. Aires Rodrigues T1 - B30, Ribandar Retreat Ribandar - Goa - 403006 Mobile: 9822684372