Overview
- Marathahalli police arrested Dr Mahendra Reddy in Manipal, Udupi, days after receiving an FSL report detecting Propofol in the deceased’s organs.
- Investigators allege the surgeon administered repeated IV doses under the guise of treatment and are tracing how the controlled anaesthetic was procured outside clinical settings.
- A magistrate remanded the accused to police custody, and officers are probing possible motives cited by the family, including financial disputes and an alleged extramarital relationship.
- Kruthika’s sister insisted on a medico-legal postmortem, leading police to seize IV equipment and viscera; forensic tests found Propofol on the medical items and in multiple organs.
- The sequence under investigation places IV administrations between April 21 and 23, a complaint of cannula pain via WhatsApp, and her being declared brought dead on April 24 at Cauvery Hospital; her father later filed the complaint and has since donated a house to ISKCON in her memory.