PANJIM: The High Court of Bombay at Goa has granted leave to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to file an appeal before it challenging the judgment of the Panjim Children’s Court in British teenager Scarlett Keeling murder case.
The Children’s Court, in its order delivered on September 23, 2016, had acquitted the two persons accused in the case.
CBI had moved the High Court on February 3 this year against the Goa Children’s Court order acquittal.
Scarlett’s body was found at Anjuna beach in February 2008. While the police initially tried to pass off the death as suicide, a second autopsy revealed 52 injury marks on her body as well as traces of a cocktail of drugs in her system. A CBI probe was ordered in the case by the then Congress-led government in Goa.
