Bengaluru doctor murder: We are collecting evidence to build strong chargesheet, says Police Commissioner

The forensic evidence has given clarity on how the crime was committed and what would have been the probable motive, says Seemanth Kumar Singh

Bengaluru: Bengaluru Police Commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh on Thursday said investigators had collected pieces of evidence to file a strong chargesheet in the case where a city-based surgeon has been accused of murdering his dermatologist wife with an anaesthetic drug.

“The forensic evidence has given clarity on how the crime was committed and what would have been the probable motive. The police are building the chargesheet as required,” Singh said.

On October 14, the Marathahalli police arrested Mahendra Reddy G S, 31, a surgeon, from Manipal. He was booked for murdering his wife, Kruthika M Reddy (29), by administering propofol in multiple doses between April 21 and 24.

Kruthika died on April 24. The police arrested Mahendra nearly six months later, after a forensic report confirmed the presence of propofol in several of her organs.

DH previously reported that Mahendra confessed before the police that he procured the controlled anaesthetic substance propofol and injected it into his wife through the intravenous (IV) method, leading to her death.