PANJIM, JUNE 12
The Goa Police Crime Branch on Saturday questioned Mickky Pacheco’s close friend Viola in the Nadia Torrado death case.
Viola arrived at Crime Branch on Saturday morning and was being quizzed by investigating officer till evening.
She was given a one-hour lunch break though.
Viola’s lawyer Yatish Naik later speaking to reporters here said that she was not allowed to be accompanied by her counsel.
“We had made an application that a lawyer be allowed to accompany her, which was refused by Crime Branch,” her lawyer Yatish Naik told reporters outside Crime Branch office.
Police sources told Herald that Viola was quizzed on the relation between Nadia and the former minister.
Pacheco has been on the run after tendering his resignation a day after he was questioned by the police in the case.
Meanwhile, sources in the police said Pacheco had met Nadia for two days before she allegedly consumed poison on May 15.
“There are several contradictions in the statements given by Nadia’s family and Pacheco during the questioning,” sources stated.
According to Crime Branch, the ex-minister had met Nadia on May 13 and 14. It is also probing whether the 46-year-old lawmaker was present at her house when she took rat poison.
Crime Branch has also found that Nadia’s mother was not in her house when her daughter took the extreme step, a claim denied by Sonia.
