Panaji: The Goa police who are investigating the murder of perfumer Monika Ghurde’s murder have revealed that the alleged killer Rajkumar Singh undressed Monika after smothering her and filmed her in the nude so he could blackmail her later.

While waiting for her to return to consciousness, Rajkumar went into her kitchen, boiled two eggs and had a snack; but later fled the scene when he realized that Monika was not unconscious but dead.

Rajkumar, 21, a native of Bathinda, Punjab, was a former watchman at Sapana Raj Valley at Sangolda, where Ghurde's body was found naked with her hands tied to the bed. He was arrested on Sunday afternoon from Bengaluru and brought to Goa by road on a transit warrant.

The Goa police had zeroed in on Rajkumar after they obtained CCTV footage of him withdrawing money from an ATM in Porvorim using Ghurde's ATM card. He travelled from Goa to Mangaluru by train and stayed there for a day before boarding a bus to Bengaluru, police added.

Forensic team reserves judgement on sexual assault

On Saturday, the post-mortem revealed that Ghurde had died due to asphyxiation on being smothered. The forensics team however reserved their judgement on sexual assault although the post-mortem report indicated that there were injury marks on her private parts.

Hyderabad based Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) is being brought in to conduct a serological examination and shed more light on the investigation.