The father of the girl, Siddhi Naik, who was found dead in a semi-nude condition at Calangute beach twenty days ago, has filed a ‘murder’ complaint at the Calangute police station. In the complaint, Sandip Naik stated that his 19-year old daughter, working in Porvorim, went missing on 11 August morning and that he had filed a missing person complaint that morning with the Mapusa police station.
“The last time I had seen her alive was on 11 August morning when I dropped her at Green Park bus stand Mapusa, from where she was supposed to go for her work at Porvorim. However, her dead body was found on the next day early in the morning (on 12 August at 6.40 am), at Calangute beach, which was noticed by a lifeguard,” wrote Sandip.
He further stated that he had not seen the body on the beach but identified the same as his daughter after being shifted to GMC Morgue by the police. “The moment I realised that my daughter is dead, I went in shock and hence could not raise any doubt of foul play against my daughter’s death, even though I notice that there were no clothes on the dead body except the panty,” said Sandip.
He said the postmortem was conducted by a doctor on the dead body on the same day. “After taking my signature on the report and police formalities were over, the dead body was handed over to me along with one ‘No Objection Certificate’ to conduct final rites on the dead body. Hence, we did our last rites in our village crematorium,” said Sandip.
He said that after postmortem, lady police told him that Siddhi died due to drowning. She said she would give me a copy of the postmortem report later at the police station once investigations get over.
“Only after a week, I came across two viral photos of the dead body of my daughter in which dead body was seen lying on the beach sand without clothes. If I had seen these photos on the day of postmortem or actually seen the dead body on the scene, I would have surely lodged a complaint of foul play in the death of my daughter. Since I had not seen these photos earlier, I had not raised suspicion of foul play at the time of postmortem,” said Sandip.
He said, “On 1 September morning, I got a copy of the postmortem report from a police officer. I realised that whatever I saw in viral photos, the same was noted in the postmortem report that is, there were no clothes on her body other than panty, and her lips were bluish at the time of death.”
Sandip said that as told by a constable, the report mentioned the death was due to drowning.
The father further stated in the complaint, “I admit that I did not suspect any foul play in the death of my daughter, till the time I saw viral photos and then read postmortem report. Now, I have realised foul play in my daughter’s death. Therefore, I lodge a complaint at your police station that an unknown person/s has/have murdered my daughter, Siddhi, by forcibly downing her in shallow beach seawater, holding her in such a position to cover mouth and nostril till she dies of drowning in water.”