<p class="title">The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Goa Police has given a clean chit to former state Home minister Ravi Naik and his son in a case of alleged nexus between politicians, police and drug traffickers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A senior police official said Wednesday that 15 people, including Naik and his son, were questioned but "no evidence was found against them".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The SIT has prepared a 50-page report of its probe and it would be submitted to the state government this week, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"A detailed interrogation was conducted in the matter. We even called two persons who were not named in the House Committee report during the investigation," the official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Naik, who is currently a Congress MLA from Ponda constituency in North Goa district, was the state Home minister during Digambar Kamat's tenure as the chief minister.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A Goa Assembly Committee's report had in 2013 indicted Naik, his son and some police officers for allegedly having links with the drug mafia.</p>.<p class="bodytext">An eight-member SIT, headed by Deputy Superintendent of Police Edwin Colaco, was constituted in January this year to investigate the House Committee's report.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The alleged nexus had come to light in 2010 after a Swedish model, during her stay in Goa, posted her boyfriend and an alleged drug peddler's video clips in which the latter purportedly admitted to his links with some police personnel.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Five policemen, including then head of Goa Police's Anti-Narcotic Cell Ashish Shirodkar, were arrested for their alleged links with the drug mafia.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The model had alleged that a big politician's son was also part of the drug mafia. </p>
<p class="title">The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Goa Police has given a clean chit to former state Home minister Ravi Naik and his son in a case of alleged nexus between politicians, police and drug traffickers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A senior police official said Wednesday that 15 people, including Naik and his son, were questioned but "no evidence was found against them".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The SIT has prepared a 50-page report of its probe and it would be submitted to the state government this week, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"A detailed interrogation was conducted in the matter. We even called two persons who were not named in the House Committee report during the investigation," the official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Naik, who is currently a Congress MLA from Ponda constituency in North Goa district, was the state Home minister during Digambar Kamat's tenure as the chief minister.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A Goa Assembly Committee's report had in 2013 indicted Naik, his son and some police officers for allegedly having links with the drug mafia.</p>.<p class="bodytext">An eight-member SIT, headed by Deputy Superintendent of Police Edwin Colaco, was constituted in January this year to investigate the House Committee's report.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The alleged nexus had come to light in 2010 after a Swedish model, during her stay in Goa, posted her boyfriend and an alleged drug peddler's video clips in which the latter purportedly admitted to his links with some police personnel.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Five policemen, including then head of Goa Police's Anti-Narcotic Cell Ashish Shirodkar, were arrested for their alleged links with the drug mafia.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The model had alleged that a big politician's son was also part of the drug mafia. </p>