CBI to take over Scarlett case
Almost a month after the state government issued a notification seeking the transfer of the rape and murder case of British teenager Scarlett Keeling to the CBI, the central investigating agency has registered the case and will soon take over it from the Goa police. The case has been registered after the notification issued under Section 5 of the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946.
06 June 2008, The Times of India, Goa Edition
Friday, June 06, 2008
No male DNA found in Scarlett swab
No male DNA found in Scarlett swab
Preetu Nair | TNN
Panaji: The Goa police request to subject Samson D'Souza, the main accused in the Scarlett Keeling rape and murder case, to narco analysis, brain signature profiling and psychological evaluation tests, including polygraph, has been rejected by the children's court.
The court questioned the constitutional validity of such scientific tests to which an accused has not consented and turned down the police request as they had failed to disclose reasons for the tests.
The police had requested the tests almost a month after Samson's arrest on March 9, 2008.
"Even to allow the police to take an accused for such tests, there should at least be a whisper in the application that the accused, who had been in police custody for 15 days, had not co-operated with the investigations and without the said scientific tests the prosecution is left without any clue," the Children's Court president Desmond D'Costa said.
Meanwhile, more evidence has come to light about the report submitted by Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Hyderabad. TOI had reported on Wednesday that swab samples taken from Scarlett's mouth and vagina had tested negative for the presence of semen.
It is now learnt that the police had not only sent samples of Scarlett's vaginal, buccal and anal swabs and smear slides, pubic hair and her clothes, but also the urethral swabs and smear slides and pubic hair of both the accused, Samson and Placido Carvalho aka Shana Boy. Besides, samples of sand, sea water and pieces of Scarlett's liver and lungs were sent for examination to Hyderabad on March 19, 2008.
"The report has revealed that neither semen nor blood could be detected in Scarlett's vaginal, buccal or anal swabs or smear slides. Semen was not detected in the samples of her pubic hair," said a top police official, on conditions of anonymity.
The official also said that according to the report, there was no trace of male DNA in Scarlett's vaginal, buccal or anal swabs.
June 5,2008, The Times of India, Goa edition
Preetu Nair | TNN
Panaji: The Goa police request to subject Samson D'Souza, the main accused in the Scarlett Keeling rape and murder case, to narco analysis, brain signature profiling and psychological evaluation tests, including polygraph, has been rejected by the children's court.
The court questioned the constitutional validity of such scientific tests to which an accused has not consented and turned down the police request as they had failed to disclose reasons for the tests.
The police had requested the tests almost a month after Samson's arrest on March 9, 2008.
"Even to allow the police to take an accused for such tests, there should at least be a whisper in the application that the accused, who had been in police custody for 15 days, had not co-operated with the investigations and without the said scientific tests the prosecution is left without any clue," the Children's Court president Desmond D'Costa said.
Meanwhile, more evidence has come to light about the report submitted by Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Hyderabad. TOI had reported on Wednesday that swab samples taken from Scarlett's mouth and vagina had tested negative for the presence of semen.
It is now learnt that the police had not only sent samples of Scarlett's vaginal, buccal and anal swabs and smear slides, pubic hair and her clothes, but also the urethral swabs and smear slides and pubic hair of both the accused, Samson and Placido Carvalho aka Shana Boy. Besides, samples of sand, sea water and pieces of Scarlett's liver and lungs were sent for examination to Hyderabad on March 19, 2008.
"The report has revealed that neither semen nor blood could be detected in Scarlett's vaginal, buccal or anal swabs or smear slides. Semen was not detected in the samples of her pubic hair," said a top police official, on conditions of anonymity.
The official also said that according to the report, there was no trace of male DNA in Scarlett's vaginal, buccal or anal swabs.
June 5,2008, The Times of India, Goa edition
Cops, NCW spar over Scarlett case
Cops, NCW spar over Scarlett case
Preetu Nair | TNN
Panaji: Even as the Goa police said that they had issued summons to the two members of the National Commission for Women who had visited Goa to investigate the alleged rape and murder of Scarlett, NCW member Nirmala Venkatesh said that the police have no power to summon the Commission.
The police had summoned the two NCW members, who after visiting Scarlett's mother Fiona Mackeown and going through Scarlett's photos clicked soon after her death, had announced to the media that the brutal crime of rape and murder was committed by more than three men. IGP Kishan Kumar confirmed that summons were issued to them.
Since Venkatesh had told mediapersons that "while one man probably injected morphine into her back, another man tried to silence her, the third man squeezed her and the fourth man must have raped her and then drowned her in water," the police had summoned them.
However Venkatesh denied receipt of any summons from the police. "NCW's implementing machinery is the police. How can the police issue summons to the Commission? Before we left Goa, we had met the Goa police and discussed everything with them."
Venkatesh added, "Our final report on Scarlett case is ready and we would soon release it."
CFSL report surprises forensic doctors
Panaji: Along with Scarlett's swabs, the police had sent to Hyderabad's CFSL, samples of sea water, pieces of Scarlett's lungs and liver. "They were subjected to acid digestion and subsequent microscopic examinations, and no diatoms (micro-organisms found in water) could be detected in them," added the top police official.
The absence of diatoms in all three samples has surprised the forensic doctors at Goa Medical College. "In all types of water, diatom is present and this test is done to see if the place of death differs from the place from where the body was found.
"However, the statement that no diatom could be detected in the samples of sea water, lungs and liver is misleading," added a forensic doctor.
June 5,2008, The Times of India, Goa editi
Preetu Nair | TNN
Panaji: Even as the Goa police said that they had issued summons to the two members of the National Commission for Women who had visited Goa to investigate the alleged rape and murder of Scarlett, NCW member Nirmala Venkatesh said that the police have no power to summon the Commission.
The police had summoned the two NCW members, who after visiting Scarlett's mother Fiona Mackeown and going through Scarlett's photos clicked soon after her death, had announced to the media that the brutal crime of rape and murder was committed by more than three men. IGP Kishan Kumar confirmed that summons were issued to them.
Since Venkatesh had told mediapersons that "while one man probably injected morphine into her back, another man tried to silence her, the third man squeezed her and the fourth man must have raped her and then drowned her in water," the police had summoned them.
However Venkatesh denied receipt of any summons from the police. "NCW's implementing machinery is the police. How can the police issue summons to the Commission? Before we left Goa, we had met the Goa police and discussed everything with them."
Venkatesh added, "Our final report on Scarlett case is ready and we would soon release it."
CFSL report surprises forensic doctors
Panaji: Along with Scarlett's swabs, the police had sent to Hyderabad's CFSL, samples of sea water, pieces of Scarlett's lungs and liver. "They were subjected to acid digestion and subsequent microscopic examinations, and no diatoms (micro-organisms found in water) could be detected in them," added the top police official.
The absence of diatoms in all three samples has surprised the forensic doctors at Goa Medical College. "In all types of water, diatom is present and this test is done to see if the place of death differs from the place from where the body was found.
"However, the statement that no diatom could be detected in the samples of sea water, lungs and liver is misleading," added a forensic doctor.
June 5,2008, The Times of India, Goa editi
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