Nadia was probably beaten with a stick, Mickky prime suspect: Cops

PANAJI: With the post-mortem report revealing that there were at least 11 injuries on the body of Nadia Joelle Torrado, a 'close friend' of former minister Mickky Pacheco, the police have registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
"We have registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting murder as the post-mortem report has revealed 11 injuries on her body.The prime suspect in the case is former Goa tourism minister Francisco Pacheco," said police sources.
Police sources said that during interrogation it was revealed that Mickky was with Nadia in the days before her death. He was with her for two days and had taken her out for dinner on the night before she consumed Ratol.
"We suspect that the injuries had been caused because she has was beaten up. We had asked the mother and brothers if they had beaten her and they have denied doing so," said sources.
Caught in the eye of a storm raging over the "unnatural death" of Nadia, Mickky had resigned from the Cabinet on Saturday and has remained untraceable since then.
Police sources said that Nadia's mother Sonia Torrado has been a deliberate party to destroying evidence that would have helped the police nab those responsible for her death. "All her personal belongings have been destroyed. Her passport, laptop and mobile phone have gone missing soon after the incident," said sources.
Nadia, who reportedly consumed Ratol (a rodent poison) "mistaking" it for toothpaste on May 15, was admitted to a local hospital before being taken for treatment at Jupiter Hospital in Thane. A confidential police note to the governor says that instead of being admitted to any of the known hospitals in Mumbai, she was "driven to a far off hospital in Thane which didn't have required facilities for treating (patients with) liver failure". She was subsequently taken to Apollo Hospital in Chennai against medical advice.
"The family claims that she had consumed Ratol mistakenly at about 9 am, but she was taken to hospital only about 4pm," said police sources.