Servant clubs employer to death at Goa
Source: The Sangai Express / Agencies
Margao[Goa], January 25 2015:
In a cold-blooded murder, a 23-year old male domestic servant from Manipur hammered his 30-year old woman employer, also hailing from Manipur, to death with a baseball bat in a residential apartment at the Natural lifestyle housing complex next to AV da Costa hospital near the Nehru Stadium, Fatorda on Thursday noon.
The Margao police has taken into custody accused Banner Keishing for killing 32-Chongamla Zimik, married to a Goan Savio Fernandes from Navelim and mother of a four-month old baby boy.
Though the accused did not flee from the scene of crime after hitting his employer with the baseball bat, police said he tried to destroy the evidence by washing the floor and the baseball bat as evident by the fact that he cleaned the floor and the bat with a cloth and hung it for drying, even as Chongamla lay in a pool of blood in the bedroom.
A panicky Keishing is believed to have tried to revive the woman and later narrated the incident to the inmates of an apartment on the upper floor in the same building.
Margao Police station in-charge, PI Sudesh Naik, PSIs Chodankar and Melson Colaco rushed to the apartment and attached the weapon used to kill the woman.
Sources said that the accused was working as a domestic servant for the last one year for Chongamla.
It is learnt that deceased Chongamla's mother had brought the accused from Manipur to work as a domestic help for her daughter.
Police said Chongamla and her husband Savio, who is working aboard a ship had moved into the new apartment around August 2014 .
Though the accused has told the police that he killed Chongamla in a fit of rage over a verbal duel after she told him to dress her four-month old son, women's activist Auda Viegas said the police should try to find out the exact motive behind the murder.
"The police should investigate why the accused did not head back to Manipur if he was not treated well and why he tried to destroy the evidence by cleaning the floor of the blood stains", Auda said.