Overview
- Police say the accused messaged at least four to five women with the line “I killed my wife for you,” including via a PhonePe transaction note confirmed by a Bengaluru deputy commissioner of police.
- Officers report the messages were recovered from a seized phone and laptop that were sent to the forensic science laboratory for analysis.
- Investigators allege the victim, dermatologist Dr Kruthika Reddy, was killed with an anaesthetic agent and that the scene was staged to look like a suicide.
- India Today reports forensic tests detected propofol in multiple organs and that the case was reclassified as murder before the suspect was arrested on October 14 in Manipal, Udupi district.
- Police describe a broader pattern of manipulative contact with several women, including an instance in which the suspect allegedly faked news of his own death and later invoked an astrological claim about a spouse’s fate.