http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/30/asia/AS-GEN-India-Britain-Tourist-Killed.php
Rights activist blasts police investigation into British girl's alleged killing in India The Associated Press Published: March 30, 2008 PANAJI, India: A prominent human rights activist accused police of a cover-up in their investigation into the alleged rape and killing of a British teenager on a beach in southern India last month. Scarlett Keeling's bruised and partially clothed body was found Feb. 18 on Anjuna beach in Goa, a small state whose coastline is crowded with tourist resorts. Goa police initially said Keeling drowned because she was drunk, but pressure from her family forced a second autopsy that indicated she may have been raped and killed. Nirmala Venkatesh, a member of the government-appointed National Commission of Women, visited the beach over the weekend and met Keeling's mother, Fiona Mackeown, and police officers investigating the case. Venkatesh told reporters late Saturday the investigation was not on the right track. "Police are trying to hide the facts of the case and close it. We will never allow this to happen," she said. Venkatesh said she would meet in New Delhi with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi, the governing Congress party chief, to demand justice. Police have arrested two men in connection with Keeling's death. The suspects were allegedly seen drinking at the bar with her the night she died. Lui's Shack — a beach-side bar where Keeling was last reported seen on Feb. 18 — was demolished before police completed investigating the case. Kishen Kumar, the inspector-general of police, said officers were investigating and would question the bar's owner. "The demolition of the shack was a serious matter. It should have been there until at least the investigation was over," Kumar told The Associated Press. Keeling's mother has alleged that police and local government officials colluded with criminals involved with a local drug ring to cover up Keeling's rape and killing. Keeling had been on vacation in India with her mother, her mother's boyfriend, and her six siblings. Her family was traveling elsewhere in India when she was killed.