More than a year after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) took over the investigations of the murder case of British teen Scarlett Eden Keeling, the agency has finished its investigation and would file a chargesheet in a few days.
Scarlett was found dead on on Goa’s popular Anjuna beach on February 18 last year.
Highly placed sources in the agency told The Indian Express that charges would be framed against two persons— Samson D’Souza and Plabido Carvalho — for their role in drugging, raping and leaving Scarlett to die on the beach.
“Our investigations have finished. We are filing the chargesheet this month (September). I cannot tell you the exact date,” a senior official said.
The Goa Police, too, had filed a chargesheet in 287 pages with testimonies of 87 witnesses against both these persons last year in June first week. The CBI then took over the investigations from the Goa Police on June 6 and ordered a second autopsy.
The CBI officials took statements of several persons who had met Scarlett before her murder, her mother Fiona Mackeown, lawyer Vikram Sharma, an eye-witness, Michael Mannion. The agency, in the process, also dismissed Goa Police Sub-Inspector Nerlon Albuquerque, doctors of Goa medical college and hospital’s forensic experts.
While sources said new witnesses were included in the case, there’s no hint at the involvement of any other person. CBI sources said D’Souza had allegedly snorted cocaine with Scarlett and Carvalho was seen with the deceased, a few hours before her body was found.