July 7, 2010 2:36 PM

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Goa court rejects Fransisco’s bail plea

<br/>A Goa court today rejected the bail plea of former Goa Tourism Minister Fransisco Mickey Pacheco in connection with the death of his friend Nadia Torrado.<br/><br/>Additional Sessions judge Pramod Kamat denied bail to Pacheco, who surrendered before the court on Saturday last after his anticipatory bail petition was rejected by the Supreme Court.<br/><br/>Pacheco is currently undergoing treatment for hypertension, jaundice and urinary tract infection at a hospital in Margao.<br/><br/>The court has ordered that the crime branch can take his custody once he is discharged from the hospital or is medically fit.<br/><br/>The 46-year-old NCP legislator was booked by police on the charge of abetment to suicide and culpable homicide not amounting to murder.<br/><br/>Pacheco's close friend Nadia, 28, had allegedly consumed poison on May 15 and subsequently was admitted to various private hospitals in Goa, Thane and Chennai. She died on May<br/><br/>30.

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