Digital Goa, Aug 19 – Three masterminds involved in grabbing nearly 2 lakh sqr mtr of land spread over 95 properties have been arrested by SIT investigating the scam. The arrested accused have been identified as Raju Mehti, Royson Rodrigues and Sandric Fernandes. Royson Rodrigues who was country hopping to avoid arrest was nabbed from Mumbai Airport yesterday,while the other 2 accused were arrested from Goa, informed SIT officials. All 3 have been remanded to 5 days police custody. This takes the total number of people arrested in the cases to 15. SIT also pointed out that detailed research by Francis Noronha the first complainant in the land grabbing case helped the police understand the inside story of how land grabbing was effected by unscrupulous elements through forged documents. Sandric has grabbed 64,742 sr mtr land across 26 properties and Royson has grabbed 1.3 lakh sqr mtr land distributed over 61 properties using forged and manipulated documents, informed SIT. The third accused, Raju also has transferred 4 properties in his brother-in-laws name, details of which are being investigated. Goa Police will not leave any stone unturned to build strong evidence and ensure that the accused don’t get bail, said SIT. Since most are involved in multiple cases, even if they get bail, they will be rearrested, police asserted. Most of the land grabbing cases have been reported in coastal areas where the land value is more including Anjuna, Assagao, Badem, Calangute, Mapusa , Nerul, Parra, Reis Magos , Margao, Vasco etc
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