From Our Special Correspondent

Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji

Panaji, Dec 5: Almost five years after a Swedish model blew lid over the alleged drugs selling nexus between politicians-police and narcotics traders, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a charge-sheet in local court with charges being dropped against six out of seven police officers.

Ashish Shirodkar, a police inspector, currently posted in Goa Reserve Police department, is the only officer to be charged by the CBI which has also said that there was no evidence against Israeli national Yaniv Benaim alias Atala.

Atala’s then fiancé Lucky Farmhouse had exposed the nexus after she had put on youtube, the confession by her guy who admitted of buying narcotics from Anti Narcotics Cell of the police department.

Goa police had initially probed the case suspending eleven of its officers including Shirodkar and police sub inspector Gunaji Gawas. The investigation was later taken over by CBI.

The charge-sheet which was filed before Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) in Panaji has dropped major charges against Shirodkar including the sections under Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.

The investigating officer has charged Shirodkar of forgery and cheating which can be tried in JMFC, and not in special CBI court.

The high profile drug nexus case had Farmhouse accusing Roy, son of then State Home Minister Ravi Naik of being involved in the nexus. Naik had refuted the charges.