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This month's Goanet operations sponsored by Mrs. Daisy Faleiro ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To sponsor Goanet operations, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Goa Police have no hand in Bennett murder probe 16 Jan: Indian Express. The Goa Police are not investigating the death of British tourist Stephen Bennett, according to Goa DGP V S Brar. He said today that his force would not conduct a probe in this regard unless the Maharashtra government requested it. 278 words. http://in.news.yahoo.com/070115/48/6b63y.html Was Tourist Killed Over a Joke? 16 Jan: Western Daily Press (UK). The parents of murdered holidaymaker Stephen Bennett fear their son was killed because of a joke that was taken seriously by India Mafia . they said witnesses had told them their son had joked about being a drugs investigator while drinking in a bar in Goa. They now think the local Mafia heard about this and took it seriously by abducting, torturing and killing the father-of-two. Stephen Bennett's funeral is tomorrow. 551 words. http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=146238&command=dis playContent&sourceNode=146064&contentPK=16406171 Briton was murdered three days before Indian police claimed 14 Jan: The Sunday Times (UK). The Indian police investigation into the murder of the British tourist Stephen Bennett is in disarray after senior detectives there accepted he was killed three days earlier than they had first announced . Last week local detectives were relieved of the case and senior officers from the state's Alibaug crime branch took over the inquiry. One of these detectives said he now accepted that Bennett was killed on December 7 . 397 words. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2546577,00.html We Aren't Liars - Indian Police 13 Jan: Gloucestershire Echo (UK). The detective leading the inquiry into the murder of Stephen Bennett has fiercely denied allegations of police corruption. Inspector General Satyapal Singh, the Indian region's most senior officer, insisted: "I know we have caught the right men. We are a professional police force, so there is no question that we might have lied or made up facts." 812 words. http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=139760&command =displayContent&sourceNode=139586&contentPK=16398802 Forwarded by Eddie Fernandes