The former Tourism Minister of Goa, Mickky Pacheco, did not appear for the second session of questioning on Monday, while Lyndon Monteiro, his former OSD, moved a District and Sessions Court in Margao for anticipatory bail, fearing arrest in the unnatural death case of Nadia Torrado.
Crime Branch officials had summoned Mr. Monteiro for interrogation.
Mr. Pacheco resigned on Saturday as a Minister after his name got embroiled in the ‘Nadia case' in which police have filed a case of abetment to suicide against unknown persons. The woman died in a Chennai hospital where she was admitted after consuming rat poison.
An official spokesman of the Goa police said the involvement of the former Minister was clear, but to ascertain the extent of it, they wanted Mr. Pacheco to answer certain queries. He said there were many inconsistencies in the replies given by him in the first session and the statements given by the family members of the deceased. Crime Branch officials interrogated the family members of the deceased again on Monday.
The police spokesman also said that the official divorce papers submitted by her husband to the investigating officials showed a clear relationship between Mr. Pacheco and the deceased.
Sources in the police said that Ms. Nadia's post mortem report said she had died of multiple organ failure.
In his anticipatory bail application, Mr. Monteiro said his association with Mr. Pacheco was confined to his OSD role and he had nothing to do with his personal life. The application will come up for hearing on Tuesday.
Crime Branch officials said they are still trying to contact Mr. Pacheco.
