Unwilling to buy Goa Police's theory on Scarlett Eden Keeling's death, her mother accused state Home Minister Ravi Naik and police chief B S Brar of having nexus with drug mafia.
PANAJI: Unwilling to buy Goa Police's theory on British teenaged girl Scarlett Eden Keeling's death, her mother on Saturday accused state Home Minister Ravi Naik and police chief B S Brar of having nexus with drug mafia and threatened to move court to 'expose criminal-police-politician nexus'.
"I had been informed that there is a strong nexus between drug mafia, Ravi Naik and the Director General of Goa Police," Fiona Eden Keeling alleged.
She charged the Home Minister and the DGP with having full knowledge of criminal activities in the tourist state but they have done their best to protest the criminals. "That has been the case with my daughter also," she said.
Fiona circulated copies of a statement issued by Tourism Minister Fransisco Pacheco in which he has expressed concern over increasing drug trade along the coastal belt.
Police have said the 15-year-old girl was drugged, sexually assautled and left to die on Anjuna beach where her body was found on February 18.
Vikram Varma, lawyer representing Fiona, said here on Saturday that the family members "feel the police might harass them in future. Hence, we may move the High Court to expose the nexus".
Emerging with Fiona from special juvenile police unit at Panaji, where she gave in-camera statement to the police in connection with her daughter's death, Varma said the police were treating her as a suspect and not as a witness in the case.
"Probably, we are moving the High Court in this case."
Scarlett's family is not happy with the police investigation so far which it has described as a "cover up".
"The world is witness to the attempts being made to cover up Scarlett's murder," Fiona said.
Reiterating her demand for a probe in the case by Central agencies, Fiona said any inquiry done under the supervision of the Home Minsiter and the DGP would be "useless".
"Goa is a beautiful place and I love Goans. But these two persons have brought shame to not only Goa but the entire country," she said.
"To my mind good, people don't deserve an environment controlled by a drug mafia under protection of a few corrupt police officers and politicians", she said.
Fiona said this case was not just about the murder of her daughter but also about many such victims whose identities would be revealed only after a proper probe.
When contacted for reaction on Fiona's allegations, officials said Naik was busy attending his scheduled functions while DGP Brar was in Delhi.
"How can I say anything when she talks about my bosses?
It will not be fair on my part to comment," North Goa Superintendent of Police Bosco George said.
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