Arshad Khawaja arrested by Anjuna police in alleged demolition of Agarwadekar house at Assagao
Mapusa : Anjuna Police on Tuesday arrested a real estate agent from Donapaula for his involvement in the case of the Assagao house demolition
As per the information, the real estate agent has been identified as Arshad Khawja, a 51-year-old resident of Donapaula The complaint claims that Sharma and her unidentified companions kidnapped Agarwadekar’s husband and son and caused damage to her home
With no demolition orders to show, or any legal documents, bulldozers were used to muscle out a Goan occupant family, Agarwadekars, demolish their home, torture and kidnap the ailing man of the house and his son, all under the benign gaze and watch of the Anjuna Police.
The Anjuna Police had a ring side view of this orchestra of torture and did not even dare to name the people who sent the bulldozers, in the FIR lodged reluctantly and after the intervention of Siolim MLA Delilah Lobo, and too against ‘unknown persons’ even though photographs were provided.
While their house was getting demolished, PSI Sanket Tokre told the victim family that ‘the staff had gone for lunch’.
The owner on paper Chrys Pinto had sold the house to the non-Goan builder, even as the Agarwadekars lived in that house as occupants for decades.
The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon when about 15 bouncers, both men and women, descended at the residence of Pradeep Agarwadekar at Bairo Alto in Assagao, and asked them to vacate.
The bouncers told the occupants that they had come to demolish the house as they had instructions from the landlord.
The five family members refused to let the bouncers enter, and started clicking photographs and shooting videos of those who were flexing their muscles. The bouncers then started violently shaking the front gate to instil fear in the minds of the occupants. Putting up a brave front, Pradeep’s wife Prinsha captured the ongoing happenings on her cellphone camera. Fear of getting caught on camera, the bouncers then covered their faces and left the place.
