Police forcing us to lie, claims family
HERALD REPORTER
PANJIM, JUNE 9
While Crime Branch has claimed to have progressed in its investigation and have named former Tourism Minister Mickky Pacheco, who went underground from Saturday June 5, as prime suspect in the Nadia death case, her family in the writ petition filed before High Court on Tuesday charged that police insisted they should make certain statements against Pacheco.
Alleging that they were pressurised and threatened in making untrue statements, Nadia’s mother Sonia and brother through a petition filed on Tuesday have demanded that investigation be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). “Entire investigation is unfair, politically motivated and clearly violates the mandate of Article 21 of Constitution,” charged the petitioners.
“The police are clearly acting in a pre-determined manner and in a preformulated way and in a particular set direction and are not carrying on investigation with open mind,” they submitted.
Further alleging that police investigation is not conducted in accordance with the rule book, they said, under the pretext of carrying out investigations, police have been harassing them and putting them under great mental trauma by directly and indirectly threatening them and forcing them to make untrue statements.
They have also taken objection to role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in this case, alleging that police are acting in a motivated manner and are totally influenced by NGOs so much that Auda Viegas of Bailancho Ekvott was assisted by the police to criminally trespass in the house of the petitioners and even take a photograph on the pretext of her being part of the investigating team.
They also alleged that police have violated their fundamental right by taking possession of their passports even as no offence has been registered against them.
