Pacheco to move High Court for bail today

Panaji: Former Goa Tourism Minister Mickky Pacheco will move the High Court on Monday challenging the quashing of his anticipatory bail plea by a sessions court in connection with the death of his friend Nadia Torrado, sources have said.

Goa bench of the Bombay High Court will also hear the anticipatory bail petition filed by Pacheco's aide, Lyndon Monteiro.

Police have 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.

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Pacheco is on the run after he was questioned by the Crime Branch in connection with the case.

Monteiro, his close aide and officer on special duty, is also missing since June 6 after he was charged with destroying evidence in this case.

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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.

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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.