by ARES - Daijiworld Media Network Goa

Panaji, Mar 21: The Scarlett death issue in Goa refused to die down as the main opposition BJP  demanding arrest of police sub inspector Nerlon Albuquerque alleging his active involvement in hushing up this case.
 
"Police sub inspector Nerlon Albuquerque who initially investigated the case should be arrested and his custodial interrogation should be done to find out more truth in this case. First autopsy itself had enough indication of a murder, which PSI ignored," leader of opposition Manohar Parrikar demanded today.
 
Briefing presspersons, this afternoon, Parrikar alleged that Albuquerque was actively involved in the hush up. "I have spoken to the experts who have clearly said that homicide in case of drowning can be possible only in shallow water," the leader of opposition said.
 
Police should seek the details from the doctor who conducted the first autopsy on her body. "There are reports that the doctor had already smacked murder in her death during first autopsy," Parrikar stated.
 
Scarlett Eden Keeling, a teenage British girl, was allegedly drugged, raped and murdered at Goa's popular Anjuna beach. The PSI was under fire for laxity in the investigation. He was later suspended after the second autopsy recommended that the dead be investigated as a murder.
 
"The PSI and the entire death episode should be investigated by an independent authority," Parrikar said adding that there are two more such instances where murders have been covered up as suicide by the state police.
 
Terming the PSI's behaviour as `criminal negligence,' the former chief minister said that he attempted to destroy the evidence.
 
The opposition party has decided to rack up this issue for the forthcoming state legislative assembly session beginning from March 24. "We are surely going to raise this issue in the house," he said.