Mumbai:
Goa Bench of Bombay High Court refused bail to former Goa Tourism Minister Mickky Pacheco on Monday in connection with the death of his friend Nadia Torrado. (
Read: Pacheco, ex-Goa minister, faces serious charges in Nadia case)
The bail plea of his OSD Lyndon Monteiro was also rejected. Monteiro, Pacheco's close aide and Officer on Special Duty, is also missing since June 6 after he was charged with destroying evidence in this case. (
Read: Mickky Pacheco's Officer on Special Duty moves High Court)
The court observed that custodial interrogation is necessary since it is a serious case.
Goa Police had registered a case accusing Pacheco of culpable homicide and destroying evidence.
The investigation in this case, which initially began as a probe of attempted suicide, has revealed that Nadia was beaten up before she took poison.
Pacheco in his earlier bail petition had claimed that he was being framed in the case related to the death of 28-year-old Nadia.
Pacheco is on the run after he was questioned by the Crime Branch in connection with the case.
Nadia had died on May 30 after being treated for almost 15 days in hospitals at Mumbai and Chennai.
The postmortem report conducted by Chennai hospital on Nadia's body has revealed that there were two serious injuries, possibly by blunt object, on her body. (
Read: 11 injury marks found on body of Goa woman: Police)
The court had noted that Pacheco's presence in the house of the deceased on the previous night and even at the time when the deceased was taken to the hospital has not been properly explained during the interrogation carried out by the Crime Branch.
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