A former auto-rickshaw driver who was charged with killing 16 women in Goa has been convicted for the second time.
A court in the former Portuguese colony on Wednesday found Mahanand Naik guilty of killing Vasanti Gawade 16 years ago in a village 35 kilometres (20 miles) north of the state capital, Panaji.
He was also convicted of abduction, robbery and destroying evidence in the killing in September 1995, the first of the 16 murders he was charged with.
Naik, who is now in his 40s, was arrested soon after Gawade's disappearance but police released him without charge.
He was arrested again in April 2009 and later charged with 16 murders between 1995 and 2009.
He is alleged to have lured his victims - all aged between 19 and 25 -- to isolated spots before strangling them with their dupattas and robbing them of gold and jewellery.
Dubbed 'The Dupatta Killer' by local media, he has already been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for one of the murders.
He has been acquitted in six other cases but is still being tried on the remaining eight murder charges.