Francisco Mickky Pacheco at last in the Police Net

At last what was imminent has come down hard on Mickky Pacheco. The former tourism minister was at last arrested on Thursday 8th July, in connection with the death of one of his lovers the 28 years old Nadia Torrado. Mickky who evaded the Police arrest and Police custody for almost a month surrendered to the District Magistrate on Saturday 3rd July. He was wanted for Culpable Homicide not amounting to murder along with his aide Lyndon Monteiro.

Fearing a Police arrest, Mickky went underground and remained at large for almost more than a month. When he surfaced, again under the fear of the Police he feigned sickness and evidently got some false certificates from the doctors at the Hospicio Hospital. With the Hon. Judge justice Kamat refusing to entertain his sickness, rejected his bail application giving the Police liberty to arrest Pacheco the moment he was discharged. Pacheco should have realized that there is no perfect crime and that he could not get away with it. As he as started claiming that he is innocent, then why was he hiding? His breaking down in front of the camera with folded hands cannot get him anywhere.

In the meantime Goa Police has yet to decide whether to arrest Nadia’s mother who herself is neck deep involved in Nadia’s death. Their suspicious statements have brought them more into the limelight. It has also been widely rumoured that Mickky Pacheco has bribed them to buy their silence, yet another topic that circulates in Goa is that the mother of Nadia too had illicit relationship with Pacheco and as such the dispute arose over who owns Pacheco. This is only the gossip of the town and nothing pertaining to that has been proved. Police have also interrogated another of his lover Viola Fernandes in this connection.

The NCP legislator was arrested the moment the Hospicio Hospital authorities declared that he no longer needed any medical attention. Was this the result of the Judge’s conclusions on the medical certificate of Pacheco by Dr. Iona Barreto. The discharge or the sudden cure could be the wrath of the law that would have had to be faced later. Pacheco had got himself admitted claiming that he was suffering from hypertension and jaundice no sooner he was sent to judicial custody. Pacheco and his aide Lyndon have been booked for culpable homicide in connection with the death of Nadia Torrado