His “death is unexplained and is still a mystery,” she told the court, reiterating her stand that the local police botched up the investigation and delayed in registering the case.The court has adjourned the case to Friday. Rivonkar said that unless a call is received it is not recorded on call records.Countering the petitioner’s claim that no doctor recommends psychiatric treatment without a test, Rivonkar said that Dr Jose Tavares, who examined Dahl a day prior to his death, found that he was behaving abnormally and was depressed.Advocate Shikha Sethia replied that even if Dahl’s mental state was not fine, this couldn’t be the cause of his death. Only petty cash was withdrawn, he said.Referring to Dahl’s friends, the public prosecutor said they have been cooperating with the investigation and that small deviations in their statement was not indicative of their involvement in the crime.Police cannot arrest them on the basis of doubts raised by the petitioner, he said referring to the doubt raised by the petitioner over a statement made by Dahl’s friend (a suspect in the case) to police that he received four missed calls from a restaurant to inform him about Dahl’s death.On Wednesday, the petitioner’s lawyer had argued that call records revealed no such missed calls. Panaji: Defending the investigation carried out by Canacona police in the alleged murder of Swedish national Felix Dahl , prosecution told the high court of Bombay at Goa on Thursday that there was no evidence against the suspects in the case.The prosecution was countering allegations of shoddy police investigation made by Dahl’s mother Minna Pirhonen, who has sought transfer of the case to the CBI.Arguing that there were no major injuries on Dahl’s body, public prosecutor S Rivonkar argued, “There were five injuries on his head which were perforated, irregular in nature with no linear fractures, which would have been the case if he had been assaulted.” The injuries were circumstantial, caused because he fell down, Rivonkar said.The petitioner had alleged ‘unexplained’ injuries on Dahl’s body.Stating there was no financial motive to kill the 22-year-old foreign national as his bank balance was not much, Rivonkar refuted the claim that huge sums were withdrawn from Dahl’s bank account prior to his death.
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