This was in the Indian Times this morning
GC


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/n...ow/5035135.cms

Rolling, rolling, rolling!!

Britons could lose Goa Villas! HOLIDAY LETTINGS.

AND

Britons face loosing Indian holiday homes. DAILY TELEGRAPH

Britain takes up isse of its citizens losing holiday homes in Goa - Indian Financial Chronicle

see www.goanvoice.org.uk

As this story has now gathered a lot of WORLDWIDE ATTENTION and no doubt will continue to do so for a while, may I ask we keep the MOMENTUM going and remain focused ?

The start of the new season is just around the corner and if as widely predicted its going to be a bad one, then the continued bad press may have a positive effect

K-C

P.S, Big thanks to Eddie and the Goan Voice for their continued support !

Many thanks Daff and thanks also to Goan Voice.

Whilst we are getting quite a bit of publicity all over the world, which is a good thing and hopefully will stop others falling into the property trap.
I cannot believe for one moment that Gordon Brown/Foreign Office, on Sunday, got their arses into gear to send notice to India re the property fiasco. I personally think that the paper has taken that out of context and is from when the petition was sent in to Downing Street. I hope I am wrong.

No you are not wrong this was taken from Information the reporter got from the last petition. This I am sure of because I gave this information and so did DAFF and others at the meeting in South Goa that she attended last Friday evening

Britons face losing Indian holiday homes
Hundreds of Britons face losing their holiday and retirement homes in Goa, India's holiday state, the Foreign Office has warned.

y Dean Nelson in New Delhi
Published: 3:13PM BST 21 Sep 2009

Many were drawn by the lure of cheap apartments and fine Portugese villas, but they risk falling victim to a new campaign by the state government.

Dozens of British couples have had their properties seized. More than 400 foreigners, mainly Britons, are being investigated for allegedly breaking local property laws, despite often receiving legal advice. Most bought their properties by setting up a local company in sectors like tourism, under advice that the Reserve Bank of India would then approve the purchase.

But Goa's state government, under pressure from local people who blame foreign home owners for driving up prices, has since ordered its land registrars not to issue deeds to any more buyers from overseas.

Hundreds of Britons have properties which they are allowed to live in - but cannot sell or formally register as their own.

Vikram Varma, a local lawyer, said more than 1,000 people might have been caught out. "Most who come here are as trusting in the efficiency of the system in India as they are in the UK. But here it's entirely different," said Mr Varma.

Su Peplow, a director of a medical research association, decided to retire to Goa with her husband in 2005. They invested more than £20,000 in a two-storey flat under construction. The couple signed a contract for a 56-month lease with a right to buy.

After her husband died in 2006, Mrs Peplow decided to proceed with the purchase alone and paid the builder for registration of the deeds. But he claimed to be unable to transfer the deeds as this would be "breaking Goan laws".

The Foreign Office said it had raised concerns with the Indian authorities. "We have made clear that there should be no confiscation of property acquired legally by British nationals," it said.

Mumbai: Peeing in public is city's top offence
and you can all guess what the next 'offences' are.

see www.goanvoice.org.uk

Have they ever been to Margao?!

Now come on girl!! you are now being b*tchy about the Southjust because you got your picture in the paperWhat's wrong with Margao girl!!! apart from the stench the garbage and men urinating on every corner,it's alright.
The fruit and veg are fresh and you can garantee to get a bent advocate and builder there if you require one also plenty of taxi to rip you off and pick pockets in the market What are you complaining at

I was trying to promote the profile of the south actually - especially as an international celeb has a holiday home there (for now). That's of course if I ever get a visa.
You forgot the beggars, children running amok, noisy traffic and of course a bank on every corner to take your hard earned cash. Ahhh the memories

Kay! su ra !!su ra !!


I'm a celebrity get me out of here

Russians keen to erase ‘mafia’ tint on visitors to Goa
see www.goanvoice.org.uk

A bit more about the vialation of FEMA and the Ruskies.It is the Russians they ought to be persecuting not us with one little property but we are easy picking and the Government our in bed with the Russians,It's a joke,it really is Yes soft on the Russians and out and mean to the Brits

http://www.oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=27829&cid=26

Anyone read this in Fridays Herald which was picked up by Goan Voice (again)

http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/gvuk_fil..._25_Sep_09.pdf

Looming Threat Over Goa.

It is a copied page but you enlarge it on the % button then it is easy to read. Tells just who is "running" Goa.