It took a cat to pull the man accused of a double murder out of the bag. The police say Aleksei knew the victims and had been in a live-in relationship with them at different times. He took the police to her house in Arambol, where her naked, decomposing body was found outside her bathroom. In 2016, a Goa trial court acquitted both Samson D’Souza and Placido Carvalho of charges including rape and culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) appealed the acquittal to the Bombay High Court (Goa Bench).

Source: The Hindu February 27, 2026 21:02 UTC