Man arrested in Monica Ghurde’s murder

Rajkumar Singh, a native of Punjab, was nabbed late last night with help from the police of Karnataka capital and was being brought to Goa, a top official said. “A team of Goa Police arrested one Rajkumar Singh in Bengaluru in connection with the Monica Ghurde murder case,” Deputy Inspector General of Police Vimal Gupta told. Police declined to provide further details. A senior police official said they were tracking the movement of the accused during his journey through Maharashtra and Karnataka on the basis of his ATM transactions. After the murder, Singh took away Ghurde’s ATM card and mobile phone. Police sources said the accused had withdrawn money at several locations in Maharashtra, including Miraj (Sangli district) and Nashik, before travelling to Karnataka. The 39-year-old’s naked body was found at her rented flat in Sangolda village near Calangute beach in Goa on October 6. She had shifted to the flat in July this year after separating from her husband. A post-mortem on Saturday revealed that she died of strangulation, but it was not clear if she was raped.