from Are
for Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji (GA)
Panaji, Aug 4: A murder mystery in the State is in the cyber space with the family members commissioning a website to get justice for their 30-year-old youth, who was found dead at Farmhouse in state's Canacona taluka.
The website entirely devoted to the murder mystery of Dominic Coutinho has become the first such instance in the state to use the internet to expose State police's reluctance to register the case as murder.
"We thought of creating awareness about the case through cyberspace so that we can garner more support for the cause of justice," Abel Barretto, Dominic’s relative, who has hosted the website, stated.
The website www.goamurdermystery.com has listed the circumstances under which Dominic died and how police were allegedly irresponsible in the investigations.
Dominic’s body was found at farmhouse at remote taluka of Canacona on July 21 and subsequently it was exhumed at the instance of state administration on July 25 to conduct the second autopsy on it.
"We are waiting for the viscera report as the postmortem report does not indicate anything suspicious in the matter," superintendent of police (south) Shekhar Prabhudesai said.
The SP said that the investigations in the death case are right on the track. "We have not registered the case as death but still we are recording the statements," Prabhudesai said.
The family members, including Domnic's brother, are not satisfied with the police investigations and want it to be handed over to the crime branch.
"There is enough evidence pointing out that the case is of murder. Police are ignoring them. We have published everything on the website," Barretto said.
The police officials said that they are considering the demand to hand over the case to crime branch. "I will be discussing the case with the inspector general of police," Prabhudesai said.
The website, which was launched on Saturday evening, received 1,200 hits within 24 hours and 20 people left their comments, all against the police system.