Bengaluru police apprehend 16-year-old for murder of BBA student passed off as suicide

Presuming that Prabuddha was dead, the juvenile and a friend slashed her wrist and throat to stage it as a suicide, police said.

Police have found that the accused tried to wash off the blood in the bathroom, resulting in the water tanks being emptied. Sources said that police have found the CCTV footage showing the juvenile entering the house, which could become a key evidence in the case.

When Prabhuddha’s mother, Soumya KR returned home in Brindavan Layout in Padmanabhanagar, she found that the door was locked from inside. With the help of neighbours, the door was broken down and her daughter’s body was found in the bathroom. Soumya shifted her daughter to a nearby hospital, where she was declared brought dead.

“When I returned home after work, I saw my daughter’s body in the bathroom. Everyday after returning from college, my daughter used to text me saying she was home but on that day, she did not send any text,” Soumya said.

Soumya suspected that an unknown person had entered the house through a back door and murdered her daughter. In her complaint, she alleged that the accused escaped with her daughter’s mobile phone. In her statement, Soumya said Prabhuddha had told her in the afternoon that she was with her friends.

Police had initially lodged a case of unnatural death. On May 18, a case of murder was registered.

“She never turned a blind eye if any student faced injustice in the education system. There are several points which indicate my daughter was murdered. The back door, which we seldom used, was open and I suspected that someone entered (through that door) and killed my daughter,” Soumya said.