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In a press statement, police said the accused “admitted to having an argument with her during their journey to Goa”.
A day after the body of a woman was found with her throat slit in a forest area of Goa on Monday morning, police have arrested a 22-year-old man from Bengaluru.
Officers said the two had been in a relationship and that he allegedly murdered her during a trip to Goa after suspecting that she was involved with another man.
A murder case was registered at the Ponda police station, and a probe is underway. Police said a crime scene examination was carried out with the help of a forensic science laboratory team, dog squad and technical experts.
The murder victim, a 22-year-old from Bengaluru, worked as non-teaching staff at a school. The accused, Sanjay Kevin M, was unemployed.
According to police, ahead of the murder, the accused left his house in Bengaluru and met up with the victim near Haveri in Karnataka, after which they decided to visit Goa for a short trip. They then boarded a bus from Hubballi.
“They had been schoolmates and had been in a relationship for several years. Lately, he began to suspect that she was having relations with another man. Enraged over the issue, he planned to murder her in Goa. He carried a knife with him for this purpose,” a police officer said.
The couple reached Goa and got down from the bus near a forest area at Pilliem in the Dharbandora area on Sunday. “The accused lured her into the bushes and slit her throat with a knife. He grabbed her phone and fled from the spot. Then he hailed a taxi to return to Hubballi,” said the police officer. In preliminary questioning, the accused claimed he wanted to die by suicide after returning to Karnataka.
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Goa Police managed to trace him after retrieving a crucial piece of evidence — a bus ticket — from the victim’s purse at the crime scene. Police then checked CCTV footage from the bus stand and connected the dots. A police team from Ponda sub-division, with the assistance of the local police in Hubballi, apprehended the accused early on Tuesday morning.
South Goa SP Tikam Singh Verma described the case as a “blind murder case” that was solved within 24 hours.
In a press statement, police said the accused “admitted to having an argument with her during their journey to Goa”.
“He murdered her by slitting her throat with a knife after deboarding the bus at Pilliem. The motive appears to be related to personal relationship issues,” the police statement said.
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