whoever broke down the house of Agarwadekar family should re-build it and bring it back to it’s original position: MLA, Michael Lobo
Calangute MLA MLA Michael Lobo has demanded that whoever broke down the house of Agarwadekar family should re-build it and bring it back to it’s original position
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.
Calangute MLA Michael Lobo said, “I condemn the incident. We cannot allow Goa to be just taken over by somebody who comes over here and thinks that we are soft targets. If he/she has purchased the whole property, he/she has to go to court, get an order, go to the Deputy Collector and get eviction. The victims are entitled to Mundkarial suit. They have NOC from the original landlord.
As far as panchayat records are concerned, the landlord has given them (Agarwadekar family) affidavit and NOC. My job is to see that the house is constructed by the person who has demolished it. Police should have taken the bouncers in their custody.” lobo further said
