The man held for the murder of perfumer Monica Ghurde spent two nights on terrace of her building monitoring movements and sexually abused her before strangulating her, police said on Tuesday, as chilling details emerged about the sensational case.
The accused, Rajkumar Singh, has confessed to sexually abusing Monica after tying her to bed in her apartment and also forced her to watch porn clips, they said.
A Goa court on Tuesday remanded Rajkumar Singh in seven days police custody. Singh (21), who hails of Punjab, was arrested in Bengaluru and brought to Goa on transit remand last night.
“The accused was produced before Judicial Magistrate First Class, Mapusa, who remanded him in seven days police custody,” police inspector Rajesh Kumar told PTI.
Singh, originally a native of Bhatinda in Punjab, became the main suspect after he withdrew cash from an ATM machine in Porvorim, just 5 kms from the scene of the crime, on the morning of October 6.
The perfume specialist was found murdered in her flat near here, following which the Goa police had tracked down the alleged killer and arrested him from a hotel in Bengaluru.
Ghurde was found strangulated to death in her three-bedroom rented apartment in Sangolda village near here. The naked body was recovered on October 6, but investigation revealed she was killed a day earlier.
Singh had stolen two ATM cards of Ghurde besides her mobile phone, and transactions made through them helped the police to track him.
The accused was a security guard and had worked in a building complex where Ghurde stayed earlier.