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Assembly Update: Nadia Torrado's case to be reinvestigated

CM calls Nadia’s case politically flavoured, will be reinvestigated

The death of Nadia Torraddo, a suicide case inwhich former tourism Minister Fransisco (Mickky) Pachecco was arrested, is withpolitical flavour, chief minister Manohar Parrikar told this to the statelegislative assembly on Friday. Parrikar assured to reinvestigate this casewhere Miccky was booked for abetment of suicide.

Chief Minister said that the case had a political flavour,“we will reassess the case and investigate into it” Parrikar said. Mickky, theNuvem MLA, questioned why in selected cases of death to Ratol consumption thepeople are arrested for abetment of suicide, while rest scot free. ChiefMinister said that there has been different criteria’s adopted by police insimilar cases 

Nadia Torraddo died after consuming Ratol paste at herresidence in Loutolim village. Police had held Pacheco responsible for hersuicide and arrested him, who stood behind bars for 14 days. Pacheco had toresign from the state cabinet and was arrested after death of his close friend,Torraddo, in June 2010.

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Political Patrao

Your political patrao is a trifle baffled. In his long years of feasting and digesting politics, he has never had a chance of meeting a politician who reacts to articles in newspapers by rating the journalist/editor as “third class” or “third rate”.

The Goan Network
Published Aug 2, 2012, 1:18 PM IST
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Beware of JRS (Journalist RatingSystem)This is afirst and political patrao advises journalists to take this new rating systemseriously. After all if journalists can call politicians third rate, then theycan be treated with the same medicine too. But wait, before we give thepolitician a clean chit and say “Carry on Sir, carry on calling journalistsnames”, a politician needs to earn that privilege. And how does he do that?Simple. Let him establish the basis of his rating …

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