Scarlette case: CBI moves high court for Fiona's deposition

The CBI, probing the British teenager Scarlett Keeling murder case, has challenged in High Court the Goa Children's court order, denying it a 'Letter Rogatory' (letter of request) to interrogate two UK nationals in the case.
    
The petition filed before the Goa Bench of Bombay High Court yesterday by the agency states that a Letter Rogatory is
required to question two prime witnesses in the case -- Fiona Mackeown, mother of the deceased teenager, and Charles Carter, another British national and a crucial eye witness.
    
Body of Scarlett was found on Anjuna beach in 2008.
    
The CBI has contended that questioning of the duo, who are in UK, was required as they did not respond to its summons to arrive in India for deposition.
    
The children's court had rejected CBI's plea stating that the Central agency's investigation revealed nothing more than the findings by Goa Police.
    
A 'Letter Rogatory' is a formal communication sent by a court of a country to a foreign court seeking latter's assistance in recording statements of witnesses residing there.
    
The CBI has interrogated nearly 200 witnesses in the the case, after it took over the investigations from state police, which was accused of trying to cover up the case due to political pressure.