After being on the run for nearly a month, former Goa tourism minister Fransisco Pacheco today surrendered before a local court which sent him to two-day judicial custody in connection with the death of his woman friend Nadia Torrado. <br/><br/>Pacheco surrendered at the sessions court at Margao in the morning, two days after Supreme Court rejected his anticipatory bail plea. Soon he moved the court for an interim bail, but this plea was also rejected. <br/><br/>Additional Sessions Judge Pramod Kamat remanded Pacheco in judicial custody till Monday, when his petition for regular bail will come up for hearing.<br/><br/>The Crime Branch is investigating the death of Nadia, a close woman friend of the NCP leader. Pacheco had resigned on June 5, a day after he was quizzed by Crime Branch. <br/><br/>It has booked Pacheco and his close aide Lyndon Monteiro for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and destruction of evidence respectively. It questioned Monteiro at its office in Dona Paula, but was given anticipatory bail by Supreme Court. <br/><br/>The former OSD, who also held key posts like vice chairman of Goa Tourism Development Corporation appeared before Crime Branch this morning.