Former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco, wanted in a case of culpable homicide involving the death of his 28-year-old alleged lover, is likely to surrender to the crime branch on Saturday morning, his counsel said.
Speaking to reporters here Friday, Mr Pacheco’s lawyer Amit Palekar said that the former minister who has been dodging the police for nearly a month now, will appear before the crime branch officials on Saturday.
“Pacheco will make himself available to the Crime Branch tomorrow (Saturday) morning,” he said.
Mr Palekar said Mr Pacheco’s aide Lyndon Monteiro, also an accused in the case, has already been summoned by the crime branch officials at 10.30 am. The former minister had gone underground after the crime branch grilled him for eight hours in connection with the death of 28-year-old Nadia Torrado, who died after consuming rat poison on May 30. Monteiro, who was an official on special duty to Mr Pacheco, had also gone underground subsequently. —IANS
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Minister in MP quits over killing
AGE CORRESPONDENT
BHOPAL
July 2: Madhya Pradesh governor Rameshwar Thakur on Friday accepted the resignation of state health minister Anup Mishra, who is currently at the centre of a raging controversy over a land dispute, which led to a firing incident in which one person was killed and several others were injured in Gwalior recently.
Mr Mishra submitted his resignation to CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who forwarded it to the governor. Later during the day, the notification stating that the resignation has been accepted was issued.
Some of his relatives have been named as accused in the FIR registered after the firing incident.
In the FIR, filed by the brother of the deceased, it has also been mentioned that Mr Mishra had been told about the dispute over a piece of land adjoining the Institute of Professional Studies on the Gwalior-Shivpuri road but he had failed to take any action.