Bengaluru surgeon arrested for allegedly killing wife with anaesthetic overdose
Bengaluru: A 31-year-old city-based surgeon has been arrested for allegedly murdering his wife who was a dermatologist at Victoria Hospital. The accused killed his 28-year-old wife, Dr Kritika M. Reddy, by administering an overdose of an anaesthetic drug, under the guise of medical treatment.
The accused, Dr Mahendra Reddy G.S., is a surgical resident at the Institute of Gastroenterology Sciences and Organ Transplant (IGOT). Forensic reports confirmed the presence of Propofol, an intravenous anaesthetic, in the viscera samples of his wife and Mahendra was taken into custody on Tuesday.
The couple were married since March 2024. They lived in Munnekolal, Whitefield. Kritika died on April 24 after allegedly falling unconscious at their residence and Mahendra had rushed her to Cauvery Hospital in Marathahalli. Doctors declared her brought dead.
Initially, police registered a case of unnatural death. But later reclassified it as murder following the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) findings. “The FSL report confirmed the presence of Propofol in the samples. Based on a fresh complaint from Kritika’s father, K. Muni Reddy, we have charged Mahendra with administering an overdose to kill her,” said Bengaluru City Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh.
Investigators revealed that Mahendra had opposed conducting an autopsy. He had even persuaded Kritika’s father to request police not to proceed with it, but authorities went ahead with the post-mortem.
According to ACP (East) Ramesh Banoth, Mahendra had told police that he was trying to treat his wife for long-standing gastrointestinal issues. Police sources said that Mahendra had grown increasingly resentful after discovering Kritika’s health problems post-marriage and blamed her family for allegedly concealing her medical history.
Mahendra has been remanded to seven days of police custody as investigations continue into what officers describe as a “premeditated act” disguised as medical care.
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Rs 640 crore cyber fraud: SC refuses anticipatory bail to CA in ED case
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to grant anticipatory bail to a chartered accountant in a money laundering investigation linked to a Rs 640 crore cyber fraud case.
A bench of Justices MM Sundresh and Augustine George Masih upheld the order of the Delhi High Court which had denied pre-arrest bail to Bhaskar Yadav and directed him to surrender in 10 days.
The high court on February 2 dismissed anticipatory bail applications by Yadav and Ashok Kumar Sharma.
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In the 22-page judgement, the high court had said there was an "intricate mesh of laundering of money", and the need expressed by the Enforcement Directorate to interrogate the two accused in custody was not unreasonable.
"The accused/applicants, being skilled professionals, have allegedly crafted laundering of proceeds of crime across multiple layers, and to unearth the same, I find substance in the submission of learned counsel for DoE (Directorate of Enforcement) that custodial interrogation is much required," the HC said.
"It is not a case of mere dealing in cryptocurrency, which per se is not a crime in this country and the liability of the accused persons is confined to paying tax on the crypto transactions. The present cases exhibit a vast intricate mesh of movement of money, fraudulently extracted out of pocket of gullible investors, who appear to be primarily belonging to middle class," it had added.
The high court had stated that individual liberty was sacrosanct, but it could not brush aside the requirement to carry out a meaningful interrogation and investigation in the larger interest of the country's economy.
It had noted there were fresh complaints of the accused allegedly assaulting the investigating officers, bribing the local police to settle cyber fraud complaints and destroying electronic evidence.
The money laundering probe stems from two FIRs filed by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Delhi Police that were registered to probe charges of cyber fraud to the tune of Rs 640 crore generated through betting, gambling, part-time jobs and phishing scams, the ED has earlier said in a statement.
As per the agency, the money of gullible people was siphoned off by layering funds cheated from them through more than 5,000 mule Indian bank accounts and subsequently uploaded on PYYPL, a UAE-based payment platform.
Part of the cyber fraud money was withdrawn in cash in Dubai through debit and credit cards issued by various Indian banks, it said.
According to the probe agency, the alleged scam was being run through a nexus of certain CAs, company secretaries and crypto traders who worked in tandem to launder the proceeds of crime.
