Bengaluru surgeon arrested for murdering doctor wife by injecting anaesthetic drug

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Six months aft the decease of a 29-year-old city-based dermatologist, the Matharahalli constabulary person arrested her husband, a wide surgeon, from Udupi connected Tuesday connected charges of murdering her by allegedly injecting a controlled anaesthetic cause restricted to operation-theatre use, successful aggregate organs successful a bid to termination her and marque it look similar a earthy death.

However, meticulous investigations of the Scene of Crime Officer (SOCO) and Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) teams based connected the ailment filed by household members helped the constabulary zero successful connected the accused, identified arsenic Mahendra Reddy.

The accused has been booked for execution and taken into custody to ascertain the nonstop motive down the murder.

According to the ailment filed by the begetter of the deceased, the incidental took spot connected April 21, erstwhile Kruthika Reddy reportedly fell sick and was taken to a adjacent infirmary by her husband, wherever she was declared ‘brought dead’. Based connected the medico-legal lawsuit and statements filed by the household members, the Marathahalli constabulary registered a lawsuit of unnatural death.

The SOCO visited the location and recovered evidence, including a cannula set, an injection tube, and different aesculapian items. These items were handed implicit to investigators for forensic analysis. The viscera samples were collected and sent to the FSL to find the origin of death. The FSL study aboriginal confirmed the beingness of Propofol, a almighty anaesthetic drug, successful the victim’s organs, indicating a transgression act. Based connected this report, the victim’s father, K. Munireddy, filed a ailment connected October 13, alleging that his son-in-law had murdered his girl utilizing the anaesthetic drug, according to the police.

The mates got joined connected May 26 past twelvemonth and some were moving astatine Victoria Hospital, Bengaluru.

In his complaint, Munireddy alleged that ever since their marriage, the accused had not been taking attraction of his woman and had allegedly administered drugs connected the pretext of treating her. He accused his son-in-law of neglecting her aft they turned down his request for wealth to conception a backstage infirmary for him. His in-laws cited that they could not spend specified a large amount, and aboriginal helped him to acceptable up a session astatine Munnekolalla, wherever the mates were readying to commencement backstage practice, the constabulary said.

On April 24, the accused allegedly administered the drugs aggregate times to dainty her for gastric problem, contempt the unfortunate repeatedly requesting him to region the canola, incapable to carnivore the pain, constabulary said.

The accused refused to get the postmortem done adjacent aft the victim’s household filed a ailment with the jurisdictional police. “Being a doctor, helium did not adjacent execute CPR astatine location erstwhile helium noticed the unfortunate unconscious and not responding to the treatment,” Mr. Reddy alleged.

The household alleged that erstwhile they conducted a inheritance check, they recovered that the accused’s household not lone has transgression cases pending against them, but the accused besides had an affair.

Published - October 15, 2025 08:13 p.m. IST

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