Guard sexually abused Goa perfumer before killing her

TIL Desk/National/Goa/ The man held for the murder of perfumer Monica Ghurde spent two nights on the terrace of her building monitoring movements and sexually abused her before strangling her, police said, 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.

Singh, a 21-year-old native of Punjab who worked as a security guard, has been arrested for allegedly murdering the photographer turned-perfume specialist on the night of October 5 at her rented flat in Sangolda village in Goa.

Singh, nabbed from a Bengaluru hotel two days ago, was brought to Goa on transit remand on Tuesday night. The accused was on Tuesday produced in a court of a Judicial Magistrate of First Class at Mapusa town, which remanded him in seven-day police custody.