With UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s family deciding to amicably settle the alleged scam pertaining to its ancestral property in Assagao, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Crime Branch will seek legal opinion before filing a closure report in the Court.
“We will seek a legal opinion before submitting a closure report... The (complainant’s) family does not want to pursue the matter with the police, and we have also not found involvement of any third party in the case,” SIT SP Nidhin Valsan told The Goan.
The file comprising the case status and the complainant family’s communication with the State functionaries will be sent to the Law Department of the Goa Government for scrutiny. An appropriate decision will be taken thereafter.
The SIT had taken over the probe after Suella’s father Crishtie Fernandes, in his mail to the Goa government and the State police, alleged that two of his ancestral properties in Assagao were usurped. After a preliminary inquiry, the SIT registered a First Information Report (FIR) in September.
The case later turned out to be a family feud wherein the complainant sought a police probe following a bitter dispute with his brother, to whom the former had dispatched the power of attorney through the Embassy years ago.
The Goan had earlier reported that the complainant’s wife, in her subsequent communication with the local authorities had conceded it is a family matter and that the dispute is pending hearing before a civil court in Goa.
