To deal with the small communities of Jews and Nestorian Christian  heretics,  who had settled down on the Malabar coast in the mists of antiquity, the then Archbishop of Goa opened a local branch of the Holy Inquisition.
The Archbishop of Goa opened a local branch of Holy Inquisition to deal with small communities of Jews and Nestorian Christian heretics who had settled on the Malabar coast. 