Bengaluru surgeon uses anaesthetic to ‘kill’ wife: A sequence of events before Kruthika’s death

Six months on, the post-mortem report by the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), received by the Marathahalli police recently, traces of Propofol were found in Kruthika’s organs and the medical equipment used by her husband to administer the medication intravenously between April 21 and April 23.

A sequence of events in days before Kruthika’s death

1) According to the police, Kruthika, who lived with her husband Mahendra Reddy G S in the city’s Ayyappa Layout after the wedding, complained of gastritis on April 21. To speed up her recovery, she decided to stay with her parents, who live nearby. The police said Mahendra, who worked at a city hospital,  started treating her condition intravenously before leaving for their Ayyappa Layout house.

2) Around noon on April 23, the police said Kruthika sent him a WhatsApp message stating that the cannula was causing her discomfort and asking if she could stop the IV treatment.

3) To this, Mahendra instructed her not to remove the cannula. He also returned to her parents house that day to continue her treatment.

4) According to Kruthika’s brother-in-law, Mahendra went off to sleep in another room at her parent’s house.

5) The next morning, Kruthika was found unresponsive. Her parents and Mahendra took her to a hospital, where she was declared dead.