PANAJI
The Special Investigation Team (SIT-Land Grab) has filed two chargesheets against notorious criminal Suleman Siddique Khan, alleging his involvement in fraudulent land acquisitions in Mapusa and Curca.
The chargesheets, containing 852 pages and 656 pages, were submitted before Judicial Magistrate First Class in Mapusa and Valpoi, which will now proceed with framing charges.
In the first case, filed in 2020, Khan was booked by Mapusa police for allegedly forging documents to impersonate the rightful owners of land surveyed under Chalta No. 2 of PT Sheet No. 67 in Mapusa. He is accused of counterfeiting the official stamp of the Civil Registrar-cum-Sub-Registrar of Bardez and presenting these fake documents to transfer ownership rights.
“Investigation revealed that Suleman has prepared forged documents of the property and succeeded in completing the mutation process before the authority,” states an excerpt from the 852-page chargesheet submitted to the JMFC Mapusa.
In a separate case from 2021, Khan and his accomplices allegedly forged documents to claim ancestral properties in Goalim-Moula, Tiswadi, spanning 2.15 lakh square meters and commonly referred to as “Kot-Pot.” The SIT stated that Suleman followed the same modus operandi, forging property deeds and signatures in sale documents, falsely registering them before the Sub-Registrar of Valpoi and using them to assert ownership. The case was initially investigated by the Valpoi police before being transferred to the SIT-Land Grab.
The 656-page chargesheet, filed before the JMFC Valpoi, identifies Khan as the key beneficiary in the fraudulent transactions. "He prepared fake sale deeds, forged the signatures and falsely showed them as executed before the Sub Registrar Valpoi, and used these as genuine," the charge sheet stated, as he is also charged with destroying evidence besides other offenses of cheating, forgery, impersonation, etc.
