Bengaluru shocker: Doctor kills doctor wife with anaesthetic drug

This special report details the shocking murder of a doctor in Bengaluru, allegedly by her surgeon husband, Dr. Mahendra Reddy.

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00:00and more breaking news now coming from bengaluru where a doctor has been murdered by her husband

00:12bengalur police have arrested dr mahendra reddy who's a general surgeon for the murder of his

00:18wife the victim herself was also a doctor and the accused husband allegedly used anesthetic

00:28drug propofol to kill his wife the couple who are both doctors at the victoria hospital had married

00:35in may 2024 and just a little more than a year later the lady is dead initially police had

00:44registered an unnatural death report as the death appeared natural but kritika the deceased young

00:51woman her elder sister dr nikita and ready who's a radiologist raised suspicions and

00:58insisted on a detailed probe sagara joins me live on the story sagar this is a shocking shocking

01:07story where a doctor a very very talented young woman was killed by her husband and not just

01:15any kind of murder the doctor's husband used his own surgical skill used a drug that is used for icu and

01:24operate patients for operating on them and killed his own wife what more are you picking up from your

01:30police sources absolutely as you rightly pointed out mahandra reddy had access to the operation theater

01:40in victoria hospital and he had also a procured all those profile medication from those operation

01:47theaters and after that he preserved that and when she fell sick on 23rd of april 2025 at her father's

01:54resistance kritika had mentioned that she was unwell immediately mahandra reddy was also a doctor

02:00went her and visited her and he administered the medicine on her for her to recuperate as soon as

02:05possible however within two days she collapsed and died and initially a case of unnatural death was

02:11been reported and registered and thereafter her sister kritika reddy kritika reddy sister nikita reddy

02:18was suspicious on her death and that's when she raises concern and after that there was a report

02:24which was been sent to fsl fsl report has come now and it has been proved that there were a proof of all

02:30which was been found in all the organs of her body and the family is saying that the doctor who is also

02:37i mean a doctor who was supposed to start her own clinic on 4th of may died on 25th of april and the claim

02:46that the husband who is also a doctor who was supposed to save the life who was supposed to

02:51save his own wife's life has uses expertise from the medicine and use a trick and killed her using

03:00those injections and the investigation is on the police have arrested behind the reddy we were working

03:05in a private hospital taken into custody and interrogating further what is the reason behind for him to do

03:12these kind of murder and it is this is the first time or he has even even tried with someone else

03:18so police will interrogate further as we speak now he's under police custody all right thank you for

03:24that sagaraj it's a horrible case but investigation is ongoing