Panaji: The SIT of Goa Police have filed First Information Report (FIR) after UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s father filed complaint that their ancestral property at Assagao village in North Goa has been grabbed by some unknown person.
Superintendent of Police (SIT) Nidhi Vasan said that the FIR has been filed after the department received complaint from Braverman’s father, Christie Fernandes that their two ancestral properties admeasuring 13,900 square metres in Assagao have been fraudulently usurped.
Vasan said that the investigation in this connection has begun.
Police sources stated that Fernandes found that some unknown person through Power of Attorney had filed inventory proceedings with respect to property bearing survey numbers 253/3 and 252/3 of Assagao village owned by him and other co-owners who are his family members.
As per the complaint, the inventory proceedings were filed prior to July 27 this year and he came to know about it in August.
Fernandes had filed complaint through email to Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, Director General of Police Jaspal Singh and Goa NRI Commissionerate.
When contacted, Goa NRI commissioner Narendra Sawaikar told PTI that the email was received last week by his department which was forwarded to the State Home department.
“The NRI commission do not have powers to investigate into such cases. That is why we forwarded the complaint to the Home Department,” Sawaikar said.
Goa government has formed a Special Investigation Team comprising of the officials from Police, Revenue and Archives and Archeology department to investigate into the cases of land grabbing by making fraudulent documents.
The SIT is investigating over 100 such cases across Goa which more than 15 persons including two officials from Archives and Archeology department were arrested by it during the investigation.
