Mapusa, Jan 30 (TOI): Three deaths within a month were reported in Arambol, all linked to alleged drug overdoses.

Locals attribute the spate of deaths to late night parties at shacks and resorts which attract tourists, specially the younger crowd from metropolitan cities, who are allegedly given easy access to drugs. Locals have raised concerns over the increasing drug consumption cases along the coastal belt of Pernem.
Four days after the body of a female domestic tourist, aged between 20 and 25 years, was found at Arambol, it still remains unidentified. Locals said that the woman was spotted at a party venue before she turned up dead. Sources added that there were no bruises or any other injury marks on the body and have ruled out any possibility of sex abuse. She was found on the beach in a semi-nude state, frothing from the nose. Sources said that consumption of drugs may have caused frothing from the mouth and nose.
Police are still trying to establish the identity of the woman, only after which will the postmortem be conducted.

Mapusa deputy superintendent of police Mahesh Gaonkar said that the police are now looking at the possibility that the body could have drifted along the Arambol coast from neighbouring beaches of Maharashtra.

Advocate Prasad Shahapurkar, a member of the committee constituted by the government on the directions of the high court, to monitor noise pollution, said that he had registered a complaint at the Arambol police outpost over the telephone on the day of the incident but was shocked to learn that the police did not record the occurrence of the party. He said that he received calls from locals till early morning complaining about the noise.

"We are extremely unhappy with the Pernem police for its inefficiency in controlling loud music. I have filed 10 written complaints with the police this season, not a single FIR has been filed, not a single inquiry made. No police machinery is acting! We will meet the superintendent of police and the North Goa collector," Shahapurkar said.

The memorandum of the autopsy on the son of a businessman from Nagpur, Maharashtra, revealed that no fractures were present to the bones, no marks of blood and no injuries apparent on the inner aspect of the scalp.