MAPUSA
Curiously, another case of unnatural death was also reported in the jurisdiction of Anjuna police on Saturday night, which saw rave parties in at least two locations in Anjuna.
Coincidentally, Anjuna police seized drugs and arrested one person in the coastal village on Sunday evening.
In the first case, the deceased, Pravin Surendran arrived in Goa along with his friends on Saturday evening and headed straight to a party hosted in Vagator, police sources informed.
According to sources, the deceased along with his friends had a good time at the party.
Anjuna police informed that Pravin suddenly collapsed in the parking lot after attending a party from where he was shifted to a private hospital in Anjuna at around 2 am on Sunday.
Sources disclosed that Pravin was unconscious when shifted to the hospital and refused to respond to medical treatment. The hospital authorities later declared him dead.
In the second case, Nadim Abdulla, a native of Kerala, was admitted by some of his friends in the same private hospital in Anjuna, who was later declared dead by the hospital staff.
Interestingly, the friends admitted Nadim and disappeared from the spot, police sources disclosed. Except for his name and residence, police have no details in the second case and are trying to find the identity of the "friends" who admitted him to the hospital.
"We are questioning the friends of the deceased, Pravin Surendran. Exact cause of death will be known only after we receive the autopsy report," said Rahul Parab, Anjuna PI.
"Nothing can be ruled out. We are awaiting postmortem and viscera report," the PI added when questioned if it could be a case of drug overdose.
On whether the two deaths were interlinked, he said it did not appear so.
Rave parties were held in at least two prominent places in Vagator on Saturday, sources told The Goan.
At the Sunday gram sabha in Anjuna, locals complained of loud music being played till the wee hours of Sunday.
Interestingly, the rave parties have been organised when Water Resources Minister and local MLA, Vinod Palienkar is out of India and is likely to arrive on August 16.
Palienkar had taken a tough stand against rave parties and loud music, which were reduced soon after he became a minister.
