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Goa House committee on drugs to seek more time

The House committee constituted by Goa Legislative Assembly to inquire the alleged links of politicians with the drug trade will seek extension by two months to submit its report.

There is a lot of information that will have to be collectedbefore submitting the final report, Goa Vikas Party legislator Fransisco MicckyPacheco, who is heading the committee, told PTI.

"We have decided to ask for two more months, inaddition to the one month granted to us to complete the inquiry," he said.

The committee was formed during the recently held stateAssembly session to probe the allegations of involvement of former HomeMinister Ravi Naik's son Roy in the drug trade.

During its first meeting, the committee had taken a reviewof the entire situation and had summoned Director General of Police KishenKumar and then state Home Secretary Sanjay Srivastava to depose before it.

Srivastava currently stands transferred from Goa.

The committee has also issued media advertisements seekinghelp from the public to investigate the links of politicians in the drug trade.

A senior committee member stated that they will also summon RoyNaik for his statement.

In the past, former girlfriend of Israeli national YanivBenaim alias Atala, Lucky Farmhouse, who had exposed his links with thepoliticians, had also named Roy in the entire nexus.

Similarly, Fiona Mackowen, the mother of British teenagerScarlet Eden Keeling who died in Goa, had also alleged that Roy was involved inthe trade.

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