{"id":8175,"date":"2011-01-11T17:43:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T12:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=8175"},"modified":"2011-01-11T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T12:14:34","slug":"goa-court-directs-fir-against-minister-in-land-scam-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/goa-court-directs-fir-against-minister-in-land-scam-case","title":{"rendered":"Goa court directs FIR against minister in land scam case"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8176\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Nilkanth-Halarnkar.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8176\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/goa-court-directs-fir-against-minister-in-land-scam-case\/nilkanth-halarnkar\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/01\/Nilkanth-Halarnkar.jpg?fit=160%2C216&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"160,216\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Nilkanth Halarnkar\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Nilkanth Halarnkar&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/01\/Nilkanth-Halarnkar.jpg?fit=111%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/01\/Nilkanth-Halarnkar.jpg?fit=160%2C216&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8176\" title=\"Nilkanth Halarnkar\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Nilkanth-Halarnkar.jpg?resize=160%2C216&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/01\/Nilkanth-Halarnkar.jpg?w=160&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/01\/Nilkanth-Halarnkar.jpg?resize=111%2C150&amp;ssl=1 111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nilkanth Halarnkar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Goa court Tuesday directed the state police to file within 24 hours a first information report (FIR) against state Tourism and Housing Minister Nilkanth Halarnkar, who has been accused of a multi-million rupee land scam.<\/p>\n<p>Judicial Magistrate (first class) Shabnam Sheikh ordered police to file the FIR after the complainants &#8211; who are right to information (RTI) activists &#8212; told the court that police and the state vigilance department were unwilling to register their complaint against the minister and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) legislator for over a month now.<\/p>\n<p>Halarnkar, who was appointed minister a few months ago in the Congress-led coalition government of the state, has been accused of allotting government land to a trust at throwaway rates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Halarnkar, as chairman of the Goa Housing Board, causes a loss of Rs.57 lakh to the exchequer by allotting 23,000 sq mt land at a throwaway price of Rs.1,000 per sq mt to his trust, whereas the land at current rates is valued at more than.Rs 4,000,&#8217; complainant Kashinath Shetye has said.<\/p>\n<p>The land in question is located in the village of Colavle, which is a part of Halarnkar&#8217;s legislative assembly constituency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Goa court Tuesday directed the state police to file within 24 hours a first information report (FIR) against state Tourism and Housing Minister Nilkanth Halarnkar, who has been accused of a multi-million rupee land scam. 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