Political rivals framing me, says Mickky

PANJIM, JUNE 18
Former Tourism Minister Mickky Pacheco in his anticipatory bail plea filed before High Court has alleged that his political rivals were framing him in the false and frivolous case registered against him.
Three days before he tendered his resignation as tourism minister, he had written a letter to Chief Minister Digambar Kamat that police were harassing him despite the fact that Nadia Torrado in her statement to Thane police did not hold anyone responsible.
“The petitioner (Mickky) wrote to the Chief Minister on 2.06.2010, pointing out that despite the statement of Nadia recorded by police US 164 CrPC at Jupiter Hospital, Thane that she does not hold anyone responsible for her death, the police are trying to harass me…,” he said in his application.
He alleged that since he always remarked on his ministerial colleagues in connection to excise scam and drug racket in Goa, his rivals were framing him and that investigation was politically motivated to harass and terminate his career. He has also pointed out in his application that he has requested the chief minister for a judicial probe not only in the Nadia death but also the excise and drug scams here. Nadia died on May 29, a fortnight after she apparently consumed ‘Ratol’ poison paste.
He also pointed out that kin and kith of political bigwigs in the government were involved in drug racket. Confirming he was Nadia’s close friend, he has alleged that the investigating agency “has not bothered to examine the possibility whether the deceased on her own voluntarily decided to end her life finding no way out from the mess she had put herself into.”