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A shady cast for a perfect murder

The Goan looks at the role played by the cast of characters and asks questions about all of them

PI Vishwesh Karpe /Anjuna Police. Profession: Investigators. Role: Cover up

How did the police miss the gunshot wounds and write in thepanchanama that there was an abrasion due to her cross on her chest?

Why was a dog squad not called in the first instance and thearea combed for evidence?

Why did Anjuna Police not call a government doctor from nearbySiolim PHC or Asilo Hospital, Mapusa, rather than calling controversial doctorJawahar Henriques?

Why did they allow final rites to be started when Rita’snext of kin was not in town? Why did Police again call Dr Henriques  for the final rites?

Why did it take an irate neighbour’s protest to make thepolice opt for a post mortem?

 

Ubaldo Fernandes,Profession: Butcher, Role: Murder Accused

The possible murder weapon is missing. Ubaldo had a shotgunwhich has been missing ever since Rita’s murder. When did it go missing and whydid he not register a police complaint. This is critical since  the bullet found has to be matched with thegun

Why did Ubaldo’s insistence of carrying out the embalming ofRita’s body and doing the funeral hurriedly not raise suspicion?

On February 8 last year, Rita’s brother Caetano hadcomplained to Anjuna Police about Ubaldo hitting Rita. Why did the police nottreat him as accused and call the undertaker and Dr Henriques as per hisinstructions?

 

Dr. Jawahar Lal Henriques,Profession: Doctor, Role: Possible Cover Up

How come a medical practitioner running a successfulhospital as Dr. Henriques miss the fact that Rita was bleeding from her noseand mouth when he examined her? How could he miss the gunshot wounds?

Why did Dr. Henriques not ask Ubaldo about who the nearestof the kin was and insist on their permission before agreeing to embalm herbody?

Why did Dr. Henriques not discuss with Dr. Aurita Madeiraabout Rita’s death even when he (said to The Goan) saw her while leaving Rita’shome?

 

Dr. Aurita Madeira,Profession: Doctor, Role Possible Cover Up

Why did Dr. Aurita not do a thorough medical examination ofRita’s dead body before giving the Report that she was suffering from asthma?

Why did she take back the report from the Anjuna Police anddestroy it, giving a statement confirming this to the police

Why did she destroy this report immediately? This almostconfirms that her report was false. Who forced her to write a false report?

Why did the police give back the report and question herrather than take down her statement?


Dr Jawahar Henriques? Again?

He runs a rehabilitation center for drug addicts but DrJawahar Lal Henriques’ name has been cropping up with alarming regularity in suspiciousdeaths that happen in and around Anjuna.

Dr Henriques who had turned up to embalm Rita’s body for thefuneral has been under constant watch by police. But as this case has shown, hehas “friends” in uniform and he is friends with the uniformed. His name has inrecent times featured in cases such as British woman Denyse Sweeney’s death as wellas Russian Yury Nikolaevich Vergiles’ death under mysterious circumstances at hisSt Anthony’s Hospital.

GMC’s Head of Forensic Medicine Dr Silvano Dias Sapeco hassaid about Jawaharlal Henriques that “every time his opinion on many patients istaken as pinch of salt and referred as a medico legal case”. In this case too,his role is under scrutiny.


One Murder, One Police, Many Versions

Vishwesh Karpe, PI,Anjuna PS / Investigating Officer

September 24 at 3:30pm

It is a clear case of asthma attack. Nothing indicates thatit is a murder.

September 24 at 6:30pm

We have registered it as a case of unnatural death as localsand her brother suspect it as murder. The body has been sent to morgue.

September 25 at 9:30pm

It is a case of murder. Post Mortem Report found gunshotwounds and a bullet in deceased’s body. We have arrested accused Ubaldo.

 

Serafin Dias, DySP,Mapusa

September 24 at 4 pm

A case of unnatural death has been registered; it issuspected that she was suffering from asthma and thus its asthma attack as thereis no injury to the dead body. The body has been sent for post mortem becauseneighbours are insisting

October 1 at 4 pm

Apparently at the time of panchanama, police witnessed noinjury but minor abrasions were seen on the body however soon after the autopsyreport revealed that the cause of death was a gun shot. Police booked a caseunder section 302 of IPC against Ubaldo Fernandes for the same. However, he hasnot yet confessed.

October 3 at 3 pm

PI Karpe and I have never said that the death was due toasthma attack. The neighbors present said that the victim suffered from asthma

 

Vijay Singh, SP North

Police is verifying all aspects of the murder case. The onlyissue in this case was the case was reported late to us when all preparation ofthe final rites was done. (This is anuntruth since we know that the police has reached the spot immediately after thedeath)

 

Kishan Kumar, DGP Goa

Police never had any confusion on the death of Rita Almeida.It was the doctor who made some confusion. Police is probing the matter.

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