MARGAO
The Cuncolim police is awaiting the medical report from the Hospicio South Goa district hospital before deciding to take the daughter of the murdered Ambelim man into custody.
District Police Chief, South, SP Sammy Tavares informed that doctors, who attended to accused Mariani Cardozo against whom an FIR has been registered by the Cuncolim police in connection with the murder of her 76-year-old father Fidelis Mariano Cardozo, said that the accused will have to undergo an eye operation.
He said the accused, who was allegedly in a disturbed frame of mind had put ear drops in her eyes, due to which she suffered an eye infection, affecting 50 per cent of her eyes.
To a question, SP Sammy pointed out that while the accused is undergoing treatment at the Hospicio South Goa district hospital, the Cuncolim police is carrying out the investigations on the ground in connection with the murder.
The 76-year-old man from Ambelim was done to death with a wooden log inside his house at Ambelim in the wee hours of Sunday. The police had later registered a case of murder under section 302 of the IPC against the daughter.
The police is investigating.
