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A Goa court on Monday framed charges against two locals for sexual assault and destroying evidence in the British teenager Scarlet Eden Keeling death case.
The Goa Childrens court also pressed charges including culpable homicide,outraging modesty,destroying evidence and grave sexual assault under Goa Childrens Act against Samson DSouza and Placido Carvalho.
The battered semi-nude corpse of the British teenager was found on shores of Anjuna beach on February 18,2008. Police investigation had zeroed down on the duo,who were also chargesheeted by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI),which took over the probe from the state police at its fag end.
Goa Childrens Court president B P Deshpande today directed to begin the trial in this case,which had attracted world attention due to the initial shoddy investigation by Goa Police and subsequent campaign by Scarletts mother Fiona Mackeown claiming police-drug peddler nexus in the state.
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