Bengaluru techie kills her mother, flies to Andaman for holiday, arrested
Bengaluru: A techie in Bengaluru allegedly stabbed her mother to death and left her younger brother bleeding in the house before flying to Andaman and Nicobar Islands for a trip with her friend, in a crime that has stunned the police in the I-T city. The woman and her friend were arrested in Port Blair yesterday.
Amrutha Chandrashekar, 33, allegedly stabbed her mother, 52, with a knife on Monday and then attacked her younger brother Harish, also a techie.
She was all packed for a five-day holiday in the Andamans, the police said. After stabbing the two, Amrutha allegedly left with her friend Shridhar Rao, who picked her up in his bike on their way to the airport. They took a 6.30 am flight booked earlier.
According to the police, the injured brother then called relatives for help.
Amrutha, a software engineer, had told her mother and 30-year old brother that she had been transferred to Hyderabad and she may have to move.
Harish told the police that around 4 am on Monday, he saw his sister frantically rummaging through closets and offered to help, but she refused.
Moments later, she attacked him, he said. When he screamed for help, their mother came running. Amrutha allegedly turned on her and stabbed her.
Harish alleged that his sister stabbed him and attacked him with an iron rod before running off.
He said the family owed Rs 15 lakh in loans and Amrutha kept shouting she felt humiliated and did not want the family to face such humiliation.
"All of us are struggling to understand the motive. As of now it is a case of murder and attempt to murder," police officer Anuchet told NDTV.
He said Amrutha and her friend had booked their flight to Andamans two days before the murder.
A police team took a flight to Port Blair and tracked down the couple with help from the local police.
Reports suggest Amrutha was upset about the family's unpaid debts. It is not yet established whether her friend Shridhar Rao was in on the plan. "Right now, he has been booked with abetment," Anuchet said.
Courtesy: www.ndtv.com
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England sticking with Key, McCullum and Stokes despite Ashes humbling
London (AP): England is not sacking anybody following the 4-1 Ashes loss in Australia.
A review of the tour by the England and Wales Cricket Board, announced within hours of the final match in January, was concluded on Monday. Firing people would “be the easy thing to do,” ECB chief executive Richard Gould said but he insisted, "This is not the time to throw everything out."
Managing director Rob Key, coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes kept their jobs after the best England side to go to Australia in 14 years lost the Ashes in 11 days with two games to spare.
“Moving people on can sometimes be the easy thing to do. That's not the route that we're going to take,” Gould said. “I've seen the driving ambition and determination that we're lucky enough to have within our leadership group to take the lessons from the Ashes and move forward.”
Gould previously was the chief executive of Bristol City soccer club and said the ECB would not follow the same route as soccer's hire-and-fire culture.
“Cricket is a very unique sport in that it takes a team of leadership ... it's not like football where there's a single point of failure or success with a manager," he said. He added the ECB would not “select or deselect management based on a popularity campaign.”
The main criticisms of England's tour were poor preparation, player misbehavior, and selection mistakes.
At a press conference at Lord's, Gould and Key said McCullum and Stokes have not had a “bust up,” they did not want McCullum to “completely change” but “to evolve,” the behavior of some players was “unprofessional,” there will be more consequences for underperforming, and a commitment to “better long-term planning” ahead of major test series.
Some changes were already implemented for the Twenty20 World Cup, where England reached the semifinals. Gould implied that performance saved McCullum.
Key acknowledged that England supporters would be disappointed to see the management team go unpunished.
“I know people want punishment and that people then should be sacked for that,” Key said. “That doesn't mean we don't feel like we've gone through some serious pain: Brendon, myself, Ben. It's been as tough a time as I think I've had.”
