Former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco’s officer on special duty (when he was minister), Lyndon Monteiro, a co-accused in the case of the mysterious death of the ex-minister’s girlfriend Nadia Torrado, was summoned by the crime branch for interrogation on Saturday. The Supreme Court had allowed Mr Monteiro anticipatory bail while quashing Mr Pacheco’s plea.

Former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco, who surrendered before the Margao sessions court on Saturday morning, was remanded to judicial custody till Monday afternoon in connection with the death of his girlfriend, Nadia Torrado. His stay behind bars was, however, short-lived as within hours of leaving court he was admitted to the government Hospicio Hospital in Margao with hypertension.

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.

The Goa crime branch on Monday busted a prostitution racket being run from a bar-cum-discotheque and rescued 11 girls and arrested 10 people. The Pharaoh’s Den has always been a sleazy disco near the famous Candolim beach, say locals and the raid was long overdue. “I don’t understand why the police had to wait till the off-

The Panaji bench of the Bombay high court refused to grant anticipatory bail to former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco and his right-hand man Lyndon Monteiro on Monday in the culpable homicide case of Pacheco’s girlfriend Nadia Torrado.

Unattached United Goa Democratic Party (UGDP) legislator and Goa education minister Mr Atanasio Monserrate joined the Congress party on Monday unconditionally.
Addressing the media during the ceremony, chief minister Mr Digambar Kamat told reporters that there was no question of a Cabinet reshuffle as Mr Monserrate had j

A high court judge hearing the anticipatory bail plea of absconding former Goa minister Francesco Pacheco, key accused in the death of his woman friend, on Friday recused himself from the case.

Tainted NCP MLA and former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco moved the Panaji bench of the Bombay high court on Monday afternoon for anticipatory bail after his initial plea was rejected by a district session court last week.

Junior NCP party members and the MLA’s supporters rallied around former Goa tourism minister Mr Mickky Pacheco on Saturday and said that he had not left Goa.

Raising doubts that former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco’s girlfriend Nadia Torrado had died after taking rat poison by mistake, the South Goa district and sessions court on Thursday rejected Mr Pacheco’s anticipatory bail petition and said Ms Torrado might have been induced to consume poison.