The only confident statement that came from Goa Police was on day one when they said the death was due to drowning.
Agreed, as per post-mortem, the death was due to drowning, but in what manner? Did anybody drown her? There were three superficial bruises on her body; why did the police not find any suspicion? Why did the police not ask to preserve the viscera and swab samples for further investigations?
The callous attitude of the police from day one has allowed the culprits to wipe off any available evidence.
The doctor’s job at the post-mortem was to find out the cause of death, which was said to be drowning. But the body was found in semi-nude condition, and three superficial bruises on the body was a good enough reason for the police to investigate the case as a homicide. Isn’t it?
SURAJ NANDREKAR
Editor, Goemkarponn
Even a month after the death of Bardez teenager Siddhi Naik under suspicious circumstances, the Calangute police and the North Goa Superintendent of Police Shobit Saxena cannot solve the mystery surrounding the death.
It is strange that Calangute Police, led by Police Inspector Nolasco Raposo, DySP Edwin Colaco and SP North Shobit Saxena, who are supposed to be the best officers of Goa police, have been unable to solve a case for almost a month.
The only confident statement that came from Goa Police was on day one when they said the death was due to drowning.
Agreed, as per post-mortem, the death was due to drowning, but in what manner? Did anybody drown her? There were three superficial bruises on her body; why did the police not find any suspicion? Why did the police not ask to preserve the viscera and swab samples for further investigations?
The callous attitude of the police from day one has allowed the culprits to wipe off any available evidence.
The doctor’s job at the post-mortem was to find out the cause of death, which was said to be drowning. But the body was found in semi-nude condition, and three superficial bruises on the body was a good enough reason for the police to investigate the case as a homicide. Isn’t it?
Forget the culprits; the police cannot even find the victims’ clothes or the place where the victim committed suicide.
This is a good enough reason for people to suspect much more than meets the naked eye. Is there anybody influential involved in the case? Is there any political pressure from anyone? Or is there any relative or friend of the high and mighty involved in the case?
It is difficult to digest that the Goa police, used to cracking cases within 24 hours, cannot trace the accused and clothes even a month after the crime.
With the initial post-mortem report stating the death was due to drowning, there was no doubt the expert committee would give any different opinion, especially when Dr Andre, under whose supervision the initial post-mortem was conducted, was part of the three-member expert committee.
So why did Calangute police ask Goa Medical College Dean Dr Shivanand Bandekar to appoint an expert committee to review the death? Notably, there were no viscera and swab samples available, so what did the police expect from the expert committee? Or was it just to shrug off the responsibility? Or buy time? One cannot also understand why the police had to wait for a complaint from the father to ask GMC to take an opinion from the expert committee?
Without an inch of doubt, the Calangute police should have investigated the case as murder and not suicide for one simple reason that nobody would commit suicide by removing all her clothes.
There must have been some circumstances due to which she was in that condition, which led to her death, but the Calangute police thought otherwise.
At least now, the police must learn their lessons and register the case as murder and start investigations in that manner.
