This Article is From May 19, 2009

Pune: Students probed in Russian death case

Pune: Students probed in Russian death case
Panaji: Goa police have interrogated Pune-based students who had met the 19-year-old Russian girl Elena Sukhanova on their Goa trip a few days before her death.

"During the investigations, we came to know that Elena had met two youths who were in Goa holiday. We called them to Goa for interrogation on Saturday, Superintendent of Police Tony Fernandes said.

Both the students were in Goa during the last week of April and had met the girl at Baga beach.

Elena's dismembered body was found on railway track at Thivim station here on May 8. Police are now trying to piece together all the leads to find out whether she was killed or fell accidentally from the train and died.

Fernandes said Elenas call records indicate that she had spoken to these youths a couple of days before her death.

"We are trying to find out how she met them and whether she had left for Mumbai or Pune to meet them," he said.

These students had traveled to Goa in their private car and spent a day with the girl going around the state's famous beaches like Morjim, police said.

Police said they have not given clean chit to anyone who is being interrogated as they are still probing the death cause.
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