Bengaluru Shocker: Doctor Arrested for Murdering Wife Using Anaesthesia Six Months After Her Death

Bengaluru Shocker: Six months after the early assumption that the young dermatologist in Bengaluru died a natural death, the case has received a gawker twist to it - her husband, who is also a doctor, has been arrested over her presumed murder.

On October 14, 2025, Dr Mahendra Reddy GS was arrested in Manipal due to the alleged premeditated murder of his wife, Dr Kruthika M Reddy, who was killed on April 24, 2025.

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The Alleged Crime and Investigation

Dr Kruthika is a 29-year-old dermatologist who was first discovered dead in her home in Marathahalli, Munnekolala. Her husband, a General Surgeon who was on a fellowship at Victoria Hospital was the first to announce that she was dead due to complications associated with her digestive problems and low sugar in the blood.

Seemanth Kumar Singh, Bengaluru City Police Commissioner said, “It was a suspicious death, but no one had filed a complaint. We registered it as an unnatural death report, collected all the evidence from the spot, which was then sent to the FSL. After the FSL report came, we found out that a sedative which was given, called Propofol, had been given to the deceased in excessive amounts. The doctors confirmed that it was due to the excessive sedative. We are now continuing the investigation. Earlier, no one had filed a complaint, but now the deceased’s father has filed a complaint against her husband," he said.

Nonetheless, the re-opened investigation with the constant entreaties of her family disclosed some disturbing facts.

According to police, Dr Mahendra Reddy had abused his medical experience and administered Propofol, a controlled anaesthetic drug, thereby causing respiratory failure and death. The post-mortem report and the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) report confirmed that there were traces of Propofol, which invalidated the first assumption that it was a natural death.

The police have justified the delay in cracking the case that FSL operates on a basis of waiting list yet the cops had been in the investigation even when the family of the deceased had not pressed the complaint.

The investigators say that Mahendra Reddy had been administering his wife IV infusions three days in a row saying it was because of gastric trouble. She went unconscious on April 23 and was admitted to a private hospital. Although she was advised to do a 72-hour fasting test by the doctors, he supposedly released her after only 36 hours and she passed away shortly after.

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The police sources also reported that he was firm on not having a post-mortem and this raised suspicion at once. The Unnatural Death Report (UDR) submitted on April 24 was eventually changed into a murder case when the FSL results found a drug overdose.

Researchers assume that it had a financial and personal motive. Dr Kruthika father Mr Muni Reddy K claimed that Mahendra had been continuously seeking money to start his own hospital yet the family had already funded a clinic to the couple. Claims have also been made that there are extramarital affairs, dowry harassment and domestic abuse.

On additional examination, it was provided that Mahendra Reddy and his twin brother, Dr Nagendra Reddy GS and Dr Raghava Reddy GS had been accused in one instance in 2018 of cheating and criminal intimidation. In April 2023, a compromise order was granted to dismiss those cases - information that was presumably withheld by Dr Kruthika prior to their marriage in May 2024.

With the enrolment of the FIR, the Marathahalli Police arrested Dr Mahendra Reddy within three hours and he is now being subjected to rigorous interrogation.

It has been charged as per the Code of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, used to punish murder, section 103, which is a life sentence or death sentence.

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