26 June,2010 09:08 AM IST | | A Correspondent
Goa's former Tourism Minister Fransisco "Mickey" Pacheco and his close aide Lyndon Monteiro, wanted by the Crime Branch in the death of a 28-year-old woman Nadia Torrado, are likely to move Supreme Court with the anticipatory bail plea, sources said.
Goa's sessions court and Panaji bench of Bombay High Court have already rejected anticipatory bail plea of duo.
It was expected?
The possibility of Pacheco and Monteiro surrendering to the Crime branch was expressed since last couple of days after their anticipatory bail plea was rejected by High Court on merits.
Crime branch, which is investigating the case, has accused Pacheco of culpable homicide, while Monteiro is accused of destroying the evidence.
Nadia had allegedly consumed poison on May 15 and she was shifted to private hospitals in Goa, Mumbai and later at Chennai where she breathed her last.
The postmortem report had suggested around 14 injuries on her body, which had created suspicion in this case. Pacheco was interrogated by the Crime Branch on June 5 and thereafter he went missing.
Monteiro too went into hiding after June 6, when he was summoned by police.
