log on to thegoan.net @thegoaneveryday SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 2022 16 pages Facebook.com/thegoaneveryday The Goan (Playstore) PRICE ` 8 PANAJI MARGAO GOA VOLUME VIII, NO. 84 Instagram.com/thegoaneveryday RNI: GOAENG/2015/65729 MOVIES »PAGE 16 GOOD LIFE »PAGE 12 LIVE SMART »PAGE 14 SPORTS »PAGE 8 Middle Class Love FITNESS URBAN SPRAWL Expansion plans need a holistic approach for better housing solutions Australia captain Finch to retire from ODI cricket Plays on the cliched good versus evil trope: Romance overdone? EGG FREEZING: An easy guide to get you started Reset of workplaces needed for effective hybrid working model Alcaraz to face Ruud for US Open title Prit’s first film releases on September 16 MAGAZINE MAGAZ 9 Nothing can replace the warmth and feeling of physically reading books The Goan custom of ‘Ghor Zavoi’ Beauty benefits 10 of the simple amla Suicide prevention: Create hope through action! Film Review Nandu Car Review New Range Rover: Born Ultra Royal 11 IN SHORT >> From hybrid forms of fitness to holistic living, the fitness scene in India has it all BJP rolls up sleeves to wrest S Goa LS seat TASKS UNION MIN NARAYAN RANE TO LAY ROAD MAP THE GOAN I NETWORK PANAJI Known for its no-nonsense approach to fighting electoral battles, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has tasked Union Minister Narayan Rane with managing the preparations for winning back the South Goa seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. “We lost the South Goa seat by about 10,000 votes margin. So it’s not a big target that we have to achieve,” said Rane who addressed a press conference in the capital city flanked by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, BJP State president Sadanand Tanavade, Rajya Sabha MP Vinay Tendulkar, BJP State general secretary Damu Naik, former South Goa Centre planning `  00 cr MSME 2 entrepreneurship centre in Goa PANAJI: Union Minister Narayan Rane said the Centre is planning to set up Rs 200 crore training centre for MSME entrepreneurship development. The Union minister said he had a meeting with Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and also BJP State president, Sadanand Tanavade, to discuss related issues. The question of promoting Goa as a location for investment in this sector was also discussed, Rane said, adding he would put a team of officials from his ministry on the job to create awareness in Goa related to availing subsidies through the ministry. MP Narendra Sawaikar and others. Pointing out that nine MLAs belong to BJP and three others are alliance partners, Rane said, with 12 of the 20 MLAs in the South Goa Lok Sabha constituency it is certain that the WEATHER >> Max: 29 C Min: 24 C Humidity: 90% TIDES Low: 05.02 High: 11.31 17.36 23.46 PANAJI The family of BJP leader Sonali Phogat has questioned whether Goa Police is serious about unearthing the motive behind her murder as the prime accused Sudhir Sangwan and co-accused Sukhwinder Singh were sent to judicial lock-up on Saturday.  Speaking to The Goan from Hisar, Phogat’s brother Vatan Dhaka expressed utter disappointment with police’s failure to get the accused to confess motive during their custodial interrogation.  “What have the police done during Sangwan and Singh’s police custody? They exhausted all the 14 days only to find out that my sister was murdered. The police can get the history of a person within 14 hours but in the present case, Goa police write to Chandigarh FSL to expedite viscera examination PANAJI: The North Goa Police has written to the Chandigarh Forensic Science Laboratory urging authorities that the chemical analysis test of the victim politician is expedited. Police sources told The Goan that the Anjuna police had sent the viscera samples to the Chandigarh FSL to ascertain if she was intoxicated. While the FSL authorities are uncertain about the time frame for the test results owing to backlog and exigency in other tests, police higher-ups have sent an official communiqué urging them to expedite the results.  Manual Ops slow down Curlies demolition, to continue for few more days >> See pg 3 they have failed to get the murder motive,” he rued.  In their sustained campaign THE GOAN I NETWORK Farmers threaten to up stir against IIT MUMBAI: At least 20 persons died, 14 of them due to drowning, in different incidents that occurred during the immersion of Ganesh idols in parts of Maharashtra, police said on Saturday. The 10-day Ganesh festival, which had started on August 31, ended on Friday. THE GOAN I NETWORK demanding handing over the probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Jatt community in Phogat’s home village Hisar has called for a special panchayat on Sunday to decide further course of action.   >Continued on P6 CHANDOR CASE IN POINT WHEN COAL PROTESTERS WERE BOOKED A full grown crocodile captured by forest officials in the fields at St Cruz on Saturday. (Report on pg 3) 20 dead in M’rashtra during Visarjan >Continued on P6 WANTS POLICE TO PROBE CONTRACT KILLING ANGLE Can people be charged for blocking traffic when road is shut for traffic? OPENING A NEW CHAPTER SANGUEM: Refusing to accept claims by the State government that it owns the land for the proposed IIT project at Cotarli-Sanguem, a group of farmers claimed that boundary marks have been put inside private plantations and have threatened to step up their agitation. >> See pg 3 seat will be won. “But in war and politics, nothing can be taken easy,” Rane said, adding that he will be visiting often to ensure that the South Goa seat is won for the BJP. Rane was in Goa on Friday and Saturday and held meetings to gear up the party apparatus in South Goa with Sawant, Tanavade, Tendulkar, Sawaikar and constituency level office bearers and workers of the party, he said. Speaking further, Rane said each of the Ministers have been assigned two Lok Sabha constituencies from among the 140 the party had lost in the 2019 Lok Sabha poll. The party leadership expects to Cops yet to find Phogat’s murder motive: Family King Charles III signs an oath to uphold the security of the Church in Scotland during the Accession Council at St James’s Palace, London on Saturday. Charles III proclaimed King, vows to lead by example PTI LONDON Britain’s King Charles III on Saturday said he was deeply aware of his great inheritance and duties and heavy responsibilities of sovereignty and pledged to strive to follow the “inspiring example” of his mother, late Queen Elizabeth II. Charles III was proclaimed Britain’s new monarch on Saturday in a historic ceremony of the Accession Council that was televised for the first time in history. “God save the King” were the words with which those gathered reaffirmed the proclamation made by the clerk of the council. Charles then made his proclamation speech, which began with the most sorrowful duty to announce the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, died on Thursday at Balmoral Castle in Scotland after reigning for 70 years. She was 96. Charles said his mother late Queen Elizabeth II gave an example of lifelong love and selfless service and her reign >Continued on P6 MARGAO Can the Goa police charge protestors for unlawful assembly and for restraining the movement of traffic and pedestrians when the very road in question remained shut for vehicular traffic with orders from none other than the District Magistrate? This question may be a subject of debate and come to haunt the men-in-uniform as the Maina-Curtorim police has dragged anti-coal protestors in the Court of law to face criminal charges in connection with the historic Chandor November 1-2 midnight agitation in 2020 to demand scrapping of the three linear projects. With the Court of Judicial Magistrate First Class, Margao taking cognizance of the chargesheet filed by the Maina Curtorim police by issuing summons to eight prominent faces of the anti-coal agitation, to answer to the charges of unlawful assembly and wrongful restraint, a glance at the order issued by then South Goa district Magistrate, Ajit Roy shows that the level crossing road at Chandor was closed for traffic for five hours, Scientists question fresh EIA move DM’s ROAD CLOSURE ORDER THE COMPLAINT THAT WAS LODGED „„The level crossing road at Chandor between Guirdolim junction to Chandor Church will be temporarily closed on November 2, 2020 for five hours from 00.00 hours to 05.00 hours „„Accused persons formed an unlawful assembly and thereafter wrongfully restrained the movement of vehicular transport and other pedestrians by standing in the middle of the road between 00.00 hours to 05.00 hours on November 2. In fact, the District Magistrate Ajit Roy had issued a common order around October 26, 2020 for the temporary closure of the level crossing in the villages of Nessai, Chandor and Davorlim on three different dates for the cutting of the roads to lay the double track. As far as the Chandor level crossing is concerned, the District Magistrate was categorical in saying the level crossing road at Chandor between Guirdolim junction to Chandor Church will be temporarily closed on November 2, PANAJI: As expected, the move by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) Dehradun to recruit scientists to prepare a fresh Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report for the track doubling project of the railways has evoke sharp and critical reaction from scientists who were associated with movement against the three-linear projects.   >> See pg 3 2020 for five hours form 00.00 hours to 05.00 hours. The District Magistrate had issued the order in response to an application filed by the Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL) seeking permission for the temporary closure of the level crossing roads in the three villages to facilitate cutting of the roads to lay the double tracks. The order may throw up a simple question – can the people be charged for unlawful assembly and wrongfully restraining traffic when the very road in question was >Continued on P6 M’rashtra govt to kick-start work Assagao land of Suella’s family sold to developer PROPERTY THAT FELL PREY TO SCAMSTERS on Goa-Mumbai coastal highway THE GOAN I NETWORK THE GOAN I NETWORK VASCO Maharashtra Education Minister Deepak Kesarkar on Saturday said the much-awaited Goa-Maharashtra coastal highway work would start soon, adding that Maharashtra would tie up with Goa to promote Marathi and develop tourism infrastructure projects. Kesarkar was speaking to reporters in his arrival at Dabolim Airport from Mumbai, where he attended the Lalbaugcha Raja Ganesh Chaturthi celebration. “We will have the much-awaited Goa-Mumbai coastal highway and this will Apart from trying to tie up with Goa govt to promote and develop Marathi, we are also trying to have a tie up with Goa to jointly develop tourism infrastructure — Deepak Kesarkar help people reach Goa in 7-8 hours. This will be in addition to the four-lane highway where work is presently in progress.” “We are also trying to tie up with Goa government to promote and develop Marathi language and we will spend huge money to promote Marathi in other parts like Indore, Gwalior and even Goa. We are also trying to have a tie up with Goa to jointly develop tourism infrastructure,” said Kesarkar. Kesarkar said there has been a lot of development taking place after induction of the new ministers. “We have also given relaxation to various religious festivals. I have just arrived from the Visarjan of Lalbaugcha Raja which saw over 1 lakh devotees attending the function. We are going to restore the past glory of Maharashtra,” said Kesarkar. >Continued on P6 PANAJI considerable portion of the ancestral property belonging to the family of UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman was sold to a real estate developer in 2019 for constructing a residential building with a swimming pool. The Special Investigation Team (SIT) has launched a probe into the illegal sale of the property located in the picturesque Assagao village to Pune-based Avon Shire Developments in 2019. Christie Santano Godfrey Fernandes addressed his complaint to Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and NRI Commissioner, Goa followed by registration of FIR under A „„Property known as MADUNGA admeasuring 7375 sq mtrs in survey number 253/3 (property 1) „„Property known as MADUNGA admeasuring 12650 sq mtrs in survey number 252/3 (property 2) „„Original owners Santana Fernandes and his wife Ludovina Graciana Fernandes, inscribed in October 22, 1909 „„These were passed to their legal heirs different Sections of IPC.   A Goan advocate granting a ‘Certificate of Title’ to new „„Asha Fernandes sold 1/3rd of undivided rights to R9 Ventures through sale deed April 4, 2018 „„R9 Ventures sold a distinct portion of land in Property 1 to Avon through sale deed dated on February 1 „„Plot partitioned and surveyed under new survey number 253/3-A on September 16, 2019 „„Conversion sanad for property in survey number survey number 253-/3-A that formed a part of the larger property on survey num- 253/3 issued on September 24, 2020 „„Technical Clearance by TCP, Mapusa issued on October 21, 2020 „„PHC, Siolim issues sanitation NOC on November 5, 2020 „„Advocate issues ‘certificate of Title’ on February 20, 2021 „„Complaint filed by Seulla’s father on September 9, 2022 ber 253/3 has startled the investigating officers, who are now preparing summons to quiz the former along with government officials involved in clearing the property documents. Details with The Goan reveals that through a sale deed dated February 1, 2019, registered in the Office of Sub-Registrar, Bardez, R9 Ventures -- that was sold 1/3rd undivided rights in the property by a family member Asha Fernandes Kambli in 2018 -- sold a distinct portion of the land from ‘property 1’ to the Pune firm. Asha Fernandes Kambli (original name Anita Alicia Fernandes) was the sole legal heir and since her marriage to Arjun Kambli was not under the Law of General Communion of Assets, no rights were >Continued on P6