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| British girl's death: Mother demands CBI probe, says no faith in Goa police | | | Panaji | Mar 10
Beleagured family members of the British teenaged girl on Monday demanded a CBI inquiry into her murder saying they had no faith in the Goa police.
A day after police registered a murder case and arrested a bar tender on the charge of raping 15-year-old Scarlett Eden Keeling, whose body was found dead on a beach here on February 18, her mother Fiona Mackeown said "I have no faith left in the current leadership of the Goa police".
In a letter to Chief Minister Digamber Kamat, she wanted "an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation, both into the circumstances of the crime and the men in uniform, who despite my consistent request, stood fast to declare publicly that this was just a case of accidental death".
Scarlett's family, which has charged the state police with cover-up into her death, refused to accept that the police investigation was right on the track.
"Scarlett's mother has no faith in police investigations. The state police has just picked up a bar man and made him to confess that he was involved in the sexual assault on her," Vikram Varma, a Supreme Court lawyer and Scarlett's family friend, told PTI today.
"Police are trying to hush up the case due to involvement of money," Varma alleged.
He said "such men should not conduct inquiry. A CBI inquiry is must in this case."
The Goa police had all along maintained that Scarlett's death was a case of accidental drowning until a second autopsy on her body last Sunday recommended it be probed as a murder.
Scarlett's mother said there are enough witnesses to the crime of rape and murder of her daughter. |
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