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| Fiona will testify in Scarlett murder case in Goa: Lawyer Posted: 13 May 2010 08:17 AM PDT
, the mother of slain British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling, will come to India to assist the prosecution in her daughter’s murder case as her sentence has been suspended for two years by a United Kingdom court, her lawyer said today. “Fiona is ready to come to India and assist the court as soon as date for her deposition is fixed,” her lawyer Vikram Varma said. Fiona’s presence for the trial was uncertain after she was sentenced eight months imprisonment for alleged benefit fraud. The British court has suspended Fiona’s sentence for two years and has not barred her from visiting India, Varma said. A juvenile court in Goa is hearing the murder case of Scarlett, who was found dead at Anjuna shore on February 18, 2008 Courtesy:PTI |
| Goa Police to Send Seized Drugs to Hyd for Forensic Test Posted: 12 May 2010 11:41 PM PDT Goa Police will send the stock of drugs seized in the past one decade for forensic test to Hyderabad within the next couple of days, police sources said today. The drugs would be sent via road under tight security, a crime branch officer said. State police have began an exhaustive exercise to probe the pilferage of drugs from its official locker after an Israeli drug dealer Atala alias Yaniv Benaim, claimed that he used to get narcotics from the police safe-house. A senior police officer said that all the packets would be forensically examined to check whether the drugs were later adulterated with other material, after pilfering them. In their submission to the court, police had said that around 24 kg charas was missing from its lockers. They also claimed that white ants had feasted on the drugs. Officials said the drugs stored in the lockers were not disposed off since the last decade, although a designated drug destruction committee was formed. A senior crime branch officer said that during the investigation they have found that seals of some packets were broken. “We need to check whether they are open accidentally or purposely. Once drugs are confiscated, it is sealed and resealed during the prosecution,” he said. Learning lessons from the revelations after police-drug peddler nexus was exposed, the anti-narcotic cell (ANC) has now recommended that the drugs seized during the raids be disposed off immediately after the case was finalised. Incidentally, ANC, which was formed to curb the drug trade, was not given representation on the destruction committee. ANC Superintendent of Police, Veenu Bansal has asked his seniors to give proper representation to ANC on this committee. Courtesy:Outlook |
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