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Goa's serial killer Mahanand Naik acquitted in third murder case

Police have claimed that Naik, an alleged serial killer, put to death 14 women in 15 years beginning from 1995 before he was netted, mid-last year.

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Goa’s notorious serial killer Mahanand Naik was today acquitted in third murder case by a local court where he was charged of killing a young woman.

Additional district and sessions court judge Desmond D’Costa acquitted 40-year-old Mahanand of the charges of killing Nirmala Amonkar, a woman in her late 20s, found dead on a plateau in Verna village, 15 kms away from here.

Police have claimed that Naik, an alleged serial killer, put to death 14 women in 15 years beginning from 1995 before he was netted, mid-last year.

In the case acquitted today, he was prosecuted for murdering Nirmala Amonkar sometimes around February 19, 2008, the day when she left her house in Rivona village in South Goa.

Her highly decomposed body was found at Verna on February 24.

The court acquitted Mahanand from the charges as the police were not able to establish the offence against him.

This is the third consecutive acquittal for Mahanand, who would be charged for 14 counts of murder.

Earlier in the beginning of this year, he was acquitted of killing Bhagu Upaskar, a woman from rural Ponda taluka and subsequently in the first week of March, he was acquitted of
killing Surat Gaonkar.

Police had claimed that Mahanand used to lure the young women with the promise of getting married to them and execute them by strangulating with their dupatta.

The accused was arrested by police, by chance, after a young woman filed a complaint of rape against him. During the custodial interrogation, Mahanand, allegedly confessed of killing over a dozen woman during last one and half decade in Goa.

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