Panaji: Four days after perfumer Monica Ghurde was found murdered in her flat near Panaji, Goa Police arrested the suspect, a former security guard, from a hotel in Bengaluru.
Accused Rajkumar Singh, a former security guard at the apartment complex where Ms Ghurde stayed earlier, had stolen Ms Ghurde's two ATM cards besides her mobile phone after allegedly killing her. It is through the transactions that he made using her cards in Mangalore and Bengaluru that helped police track him, a senior officer said.
MS Ghurde was found strangled, body tied to a bed, in her three-bedroom rented apartment in Sangolda village, near Goa.
The team matched Rajkumar's photos in police records with the ones obtained from ATMs CCTV footage in Goa, Mangalore and Bengaluru.
Her post-mortem report had revealed that she was suffocated to death. The police is also waiting for the results of "serological examinations of oral, vaginal and inner swabs" to confirm rape.
Accused Rajkumar Singh, a former security guard at the apartment complex where Ms Ghurde stayed earlier, had stolen Ms Ghurde's two ATM cards besides her mobile phone after allegedly killing her. It is through the transactions that he made using her cards in Mangalore and Bengaluru that helped police track him, a senior officer said.
MS Ghurde was found strangled, body tied to a bed, in her three-bedroom rented apartment in Sangolda village, near Goa.
The team matched Rajkumar's photos in police records with the ones obtained from ATMs CCTV footage in Goa, Mangalore and Bengaluru.
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Her post-mortem report had revealed that she was suffocated to death. The police is also waiting for the results of "serological examinations of oral, vaginal and inner swabs" to confirm rape.
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