The Goa Juvenile Justice Board will decide on Thursday the police plea for a lie detector test on a minor boy who has been made a key witness in the death of a priest allegedly under mysterious circumstances.
The Board will pronounce its order on December 17, a senior police officer said today.
Fr Bismarck Dias, part of almost all environment protection movements in the coastal state, was found dead in a river at his village St Estevam, near Panaji on November 6.
He was last seen with two minors who were earlier questioned by the Crime Branch.
The crime branch, probing the case after the local police could not make any breakthrough, had moved the Board seeking its permission to conduct the lie detector test on the minor.
The officer said the family members of the minor had not objected to the test but one of the NGOs has intervened against going ahead with the test.
