From administrative apathy to alleged fraud: Mutation woes haunt Goans

MAPUSAFor nearly a decade, octogenarian Joao Caetano Perpetuo Pinto struggled to get a simple land mutation completed at the Mamlatdar's office in Mapusa. The elderly man was repeatedly forced to climb the staircases of the office to pursue the mutation of a tiny 72-square-metre plot he had purchased at Pomburpa.Pinto had submitted hi