Bengaluru doctor murder: Strong chargesheet soon over murder of surgeon’s wife, says Police Commissioner

Bengaluru: Bengaluru Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh on Thursday said investigators have gathered key evidence to file a strong chargesheet in the case of a city-based surgeon accused of murdering his wife with an anaesthetic drug.

"The forensic evidence and subsequent probe have given clarity on how the crime was committed and what the probable motive was. The police are building the evidence-based chargesheet as required,” Singh said.

Dr Mahendra Reddy GS, 31, was arrested in Manipal on October 14. Marathahalli police booked him for murdering his wife, Dr Kruthika M Reddy (29), by administering propofol in multiple doses between April 21 and 24.

On Thursday, he was produced before a Bengaluru court as his nine-day police custody ended. He was remanded to judicial custody, police said.

Police arrested Mahendra nearly six months after Kruthika’s death on April 24, following a forensic report confirming the presence of propofol in several of her organs.

DH was the first to report that Mahendra had confessed to police that he procured the controlled anaesthetic substance propofol and injected it into Kruthika through the intravenous method, leading to her death.