Bengaluru student dies of drug overdose in Goa

PANAJI/MAPUSA: A 22-year-old college student from Bengaluru and a native of Kerala died of a drug overdose after attending a night party in Vagator on Saturday night.
The victim, identified as Roshan Walson, had arrived with his family members and some friends on a holiday to Goa. He attended a party at a Vagator club along with two friends, Dinesh Musa from Andhra Pradesh and Tarak Krokos, a native of Kerala, at about 8pm on Saturday.
He started behaving strangely and ran away from his friends, who could not find him despite a frantic search, police sources said.
His body was found in the bushes on Sunday morning in a property at Anjuna about 100 meters away from the club. The police sources suspected that it could be a case of drug overdose.
The post-mortem confirmed that Walson had an overdose of some drug, which the autopsy could not determine.
The chemical composition of the drug will be known only after the viscera report is received.
The viscera have been preserved to be sent for testing to a laboratory in Karnataka. Walson’s friends told the police that the drug was procured from a local guy, whose contact he (deceased) obtained through one of his friends from Mumbai, who had recently visited Goa.
In a similar case, Isha Mantry, a 27-year-old fashion designer from Mumbai, had collapsed after a drug overdose at an electronic dance music festival at Candolim beach on December 29, 2014.
Walson’s body had some frontal scratches, which he may have sustained during his wild run under the influence of the drug. “Scratches on the body found are similar to one gets accidentally while running or falling into bushes,” said a police source.
Walson’s friends had also tried to call him on phone, but in vain. The victim’s father who works in a high position in a top hotel in Bengaluru and had arrived in Goa on February 28 along with his wife, Walson and daughter. They had booked a return flight at 6am on Sunday morning. As they failed to contact him, they returned to Bengaluru, thinking that he will return with his friends. Later on learning of their son’s death they returned to Goa. The body was handed over to his family in the evening after postmortem.