Bengaluru surgeon arrested for murdering doctor wife by injecting anaesthetic drug

Six months after the death of a 29-year-old city-based dermatologist, the Matharahalli police have arrested her husband, a general surgeon, from Udupi on Tuesday on charges of murdering her by allegedly injecting a controlled anaesthetic agent restricted to operation-theatre use, in multiple organs in a bid to kill her and make it look like a natural death.

However, meticulous investigations of the Scene of Crime Officer (SOCO) and Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) teams based on the complaint filed by family members helped the police zero in on the accused, identified as Mahendra Reddy.

The accused has been booked for murder and taken into custody to ascertain the exact motive behind the murder.