PANAJI: The North Goa Planning and Development Authority (
NGPDA
) on Monday filed a complaint against leader of the opposition Michael
Lobo
and his wife and
Siolim
MLA Delilah at Mapusa police station in connection with alleged
land filling
at
Parra
.
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Mapusa police inspector Paresh Naik said that they are conducting an inquiry into the complaint and no FIR has been registered yet.
Earlier in the day town and country planning (TCP) minister Vishwajit
Rane
tweeted, “In violation of the Section 17A & 17B of the TCP Act, 1974, an FIR has been filed against Michael Lobo and his wife Delilah Lobo for landfilling and tree cutting in Parra. The
Congress party’s vision for destruction of the state of Goa will never be a reality.”
Later at night, Rane again tweeted, “An FIR has been filed against Michael Lobo & Delilah Lobo for violation of Section 17A & Section 17B. However, the FIR has been pending for registration with Paresh Naik, PI Mapusa.”
Denying the charges, Lobo said, “This is nothing but politics of revenge.”
NGPDA assistant engineer Vikram Tengse said, “The authority was in receipt of letter from deputy town planner, TCP department Mapusa, enclosing complaint received from Rama Ganesh Matondkar stating that his property bearing survey No. 10/8 of Parra village and access to his field bearing survey No. 10/15 and 10/20 blocked by Michael Lobo and Delilah Lobo.”
“Accordingly the site was inspected by undersigned on September 7, 2021 and noticed that property bearing survey No 10/8 and 10/10 of Parra village is filled up to adjoining road level and mud filling is done of 4m width approximately in survey No. 10/9 of Parra village without taking permission under Section 17-A of Town & Country Planning Act 1974,” Tengse said.
He said that Matondkar had filed writ petition before the high
court
against said land filling.
“The high court directed to this authority to take action in terms of the law based on the prima facie material in the form of check list/inspection report of the flying squad,” Tengse said.
The NGPDA said, “Requested to file FIR against Michael Lobo and Delilah resident of Bhatti Vaddo, Parra, Bardez, Goa for filling mud in low-lying paddy field bearing survey No. 10/8, 9, 10 of Parra village under Section 17-B of the Town & Country Planning Act 1974.”