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The death of a 30-year-old African-American tourist in Goa last week has come under intense scrutiny, with the issue being raised in the legislative assembly and the state chapter of the Human Rights Law Network saying it will write to the Goa police to demand a serious investigation.

Caitanya Holt died on January 12, from allegedly choking on sludge in a rice field in the North Goa village of Korgaon. According to newspaper reports, he was chased into the field and beaten up by locals and the police after being mistaken for a robber. What happened before that is unclear.

The Times of India reported that Holt, who was “mentally unstable”, dropped his bag in a house in Korgao and started “misbehaving with the locals”. He “tried to grab the keys of scooters in the locality”, rushed to the village’s main junction, and started “behaving abnormally”. When local residents tried to control him, he raced into a paddy field some 1.5 kilometres away and began ploughing it. He died following an assault on him there.

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