Order judicial probe:Mickky to Digambar HERALD REPORTER
*...Also investigate ‘excise scam’, drug nexus* MARGAO, JUNE 2 In the eye of a storm over the death of Nadia Torrado due to poisoning, Tourism Minister Mickky Pacheco has requested Chief Minister Digambar Kamat to institute a judicial probe by a retired High Court Judge to investigate impartially the death of his good friend. The tourism minister has also requested the chief minister to ensure that the judicial inquiry also probes into the Excise scam as well as the drug racket involving the kith and kin of political bigwigs in the government. Complaining to the chief minister about “witch hunting” indulged by the Goa police in order to unnecessarily harass him and his family, Pacheco charged the police with acting at the behest of some vested interests, following the death of Nadia Joelle Torrado. “I hope my request for the judicial inquiry will be granted in all the three cases with immediate effect,” he added. Full read @ http://oheraldo.in/news/Main%20Page%20News/Order-judicial-probe-Mickky-to-Digambar/37474.html COMMENT: Seems a fair enough request, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. At the very least the Police Drug nexus should have been handed to the CBI, because of conflict of interest concerns. The Police can't check themselves out without bias. -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
