<p>The Goa Police Friday booked Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar for land grab.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The registration of the First Information Report (FIR) under sections 420, 119, 120 and 120 B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) comes within 24 hours of a directive given by a trial court Thursday. <br /><br />The order by Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Reina Fernandes followed a petition by lawyer-activist Aires Rodrigues, who has claimed that Parulekar, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from the Saligao assembly constituency, had illegally encroached on 599-square metres of prime land adjoining National Highway 17. <br /><br />The order also asks the police to book panchayat secretary Peter Martin for making false documents with which Parulekar tried to cover up the act. <br /><br />Rodrigues had earlier filed the complaint at the Porvorim police station, where police had refused to register the offence. </p>
<p>The Goa Police Friday booked Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar for land grab.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The registration of the First Information Report (FIR) under sections 420, 119, 120 and 120 B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) comes within 24 hours of a directive given by a trial court Thursday. <br /><br />The order by Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Reina Fernandes followed a petition by lawyer-activist Aires Rodrigues, who has claimed that Parulekar, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from the Saligao assembly constituency, had illegally encroached on 599-square metres of prime land adjoining National Highway 17. <br /><br />The order also asks the police to book panchayat secretary Peter Martin for making false documents with which Parulekar tried to cover up the act. <br /><br />Rodrigues had earlier filed the complaint at the Porvorim police station, where police had refused to register the offence. </p>