EXTRAORDINARY

No. 2

GOVERNMENT OF GOA

Department of Home

Office of the Collector and District Magistrate, South Goa, Magisterial Section

Order

Read: No. SP/S-Goa/Reader/3332/2025 dated 31-10-2025 from the Superintendent of Police, South

Goa District, Margao.

(Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023)

Whereas, it is reported by the Superintendent of Police, South Goa District, Margao, that criminals with

an intention of committing crime in Goa, usually stay in Hotel/rented premises with fictitious names and

bogus residential/official addresses and telephone numbers and after commission of crime, it becomes very

difficult to locate the culprits, on the basis of available information recorded in the registers of

Hotels/Guest House/Inns, as on verification it is found to be at times bogus/false.

And whereas, anti-social/criminal or undesirable elements can camouflage their identity for

illegal/immoral

operations,

which

need

to

be

contained

and

regulated.

Certain

hotel

owners/landlords/establishment have a tendency to rent out premises without verifying the antecedents of

the person/tenants or informing the local Police;

Now therefore, on being satisfied of the need to take preventive action based on the report of the

Superintendent of Police, South Goa District, Margao, I, Egna Cleetus, IAS, District Magistrate, South Goa

District, Margao, in exercise of the powers vested in me under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik

Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, do hereby order that:-

a) All owner of the houses, buildings, flats and other residential accommodations and the

Owners/Management of all Hotels, Lodging & Boarding, Shacks, Private guest houses, Paying

Guest facilities, religious bodies, offering temporary accommodations, Temporarily residential

accommodation, etc., in the whole of South Goa District must verify the bonafides of persons

37/113/2008/MAG/Tenant Verification/ M.O.3368

Suggestions are welcomed on e-mail: [email protected]

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through their proof of identify such as Election Card, Driving License, Aadhar Card, Passport,

Smart Card, etc.

b) No landlords, tenants, owners or person of any house/property falling under the territorial

jurisdiction of South Goa District, Goa, shall let, sublet or rent out any accommodation to any

person unless the particulars of the tenants have been furnished to the Officer-In-Charge of the

concerned Police Station.

c) All In-Charges of such accommodations shall provide such facilities for inspection and the

maintenance of record in the Police Authorities or any other authority authorizes by the

undersigned.

d) All Head/Incharges of Nationalized Banks of South Goa District must deploy security guards for

security of their ATM’s round the clock and install CCTV cameras or shall installed ESS

(Electronic Survey System) equipped with Panic button hooter, two-way communication system &

remote outstanding control.

The circumstances do not permit serving of the notice individual to the concerned persons. Therefore,

this order is hereby passed ex-parte. It shall be published for public information through the Press, Social

Media, etc. and also by affixing copies on the Notice Boards of all Sub Divisional Magistrates, Mamlatdars

and Police Stations.

This order shall come into force with effect from 5-11-2025 and shall remain in operation for a period

of 60 days (both days inclusive) unless withdrawn earlier.

Violation of this order is punishable u/s 223 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

All the Deputy Collector and Sub-Divisional Magistrates of South Goa are authorized to verify the

violation of this order issued under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 and to

file FIR before the concerned Court/Police Station and to lodge complaint before the concerned Judicial

Magistrate.

The Superintendent of Police (South), Margao-Goa, is directed to issue direction to all the Police

Station of South Goa District to take note of this order and to place the matter before the concerned Deputy

Collector and Sub-Divisional Magistrates of South Goa in case of violation under Section 223 of the

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

Given under my hand and seal of this Office on 5th day of November, 2025.

Egna Cleetus, IAS, The District Magistrate, South Goa District, Margao-Goa.

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