Property sold by bringing dead to life

Property sold by bringing dead to life
Power Of Attorney, Signatures And Documents Forged, Alleges Complainant
Preetu Nair | TNN

Panaji: This is a land grab of an altogether different sort! A son in his complaint to the Mapusa police has alleged that a person prepared a false and fabricated power of attorney in his dead mother’s name with the sole intention to sell the property they own in Verla, Bardez.
The age was manipulated and the dead was shown as living.
Santana Franciso De Souza, who is working in Mumbai, in his complaint to the Mapusa police on July 9, 2008, said that one Sandesh Satelkar from Verla fraudently sold his property, admeasuring 250 sq mts, and caused undue loss to him.
“We get several complaints of this sort. Many people are
now forging Power of Attorney (PoA) in the name of dead persons and then registering the sale deed of the property, thereby duping the real owners of the property. When the real owners realise they are duped, they lodge a complaint,” said Mapusa PI C L Patil.
He said that the racket had come to light in 2007, when one Sidiqqui forged documents and prepared a power of attorney in a dead person’s name and sold off a large chunk of property in Tivim. The person is still absconding.
According to the complainant, there is a plot in survey number 49/3 at Verla, Bardez taluka, that is in his mother, Idaline Trinidade (who died at the age of 75), and aunt Claudine Trinidade’s name (who died at the age of 70).
Their names are mentioned in the occupants column in the form I and IV of Verla village. In his complaint, Santana said that while his mother expired in 1984 in Goa, his aunt expired on June 2, 1962, Satelkar from Verla prepared a Power of Attorney on November 11, 2006, which was executed in his dead mother and aunt’s name.
If the two persons were alive when the Power of Attorney was signed, Idaline would have been 99 years and Claudine would have been 94 years.
But their age was forged and they were shown as alive and in their sixties, residing at Parra and their property, according to the police complaint, was sold to one Riya Ramesh Satelkar by a sale deed on January 21, 2007, wherein it is stated that that the purchasers have approached the vendors with a request to sell their property for Rs 1 lakh.
In the PoA, which is allegedly signed by Idaline and Claudine, it is stated that on account of their personal difficulties, they are unable to attend to all matter concerning to their rights, interest and title in respect of the landed property and therefore have appointed Sandesh (23) to be their true and lawful attorney, also giving him powers to sign and execute all transfer or sale deed in respect of the landed property.
De Souza has lodged a complaint against Sandesh and the purchaser of the property, Ria Satelkar, for cheating and forgery, and alleged that the PoA is totally false and fabricated.

2008 Jul 16 Times Of India Goa