-Hello, sir. -What is it, sir?
There has been a murder and attempted murder in KR Puram.
The deceased?
The deceased is Nirmala. She was 55 years old.
Nirmala, 55 years old.
-What did they use to commit the murder? -A knife, sir.
-Where was she stabbed? -In the chest.
Her son also sustained minor injuries.
The injured is Harish, 31 years old.
They have admitted him to Koshys Hospital.
Good evening, sir. This is Manoj, ACP, Whitefield, speaking.
I'm going to meet the son in the hospital and see if he can give us any information.
Since he is the eyewitness, he might give us all the details.
I will speak with him and let you know, sir.
Thank you, sir. Goodbye.
As soon as a murder happens and I get a call,
the only thing running through my head is how to get the accused.
I can't be nervous looking at the dead body
because it's my job to see the dead body.
Now I look only for evidence,
I look for clues, how I can get the accused.
We want to know exactly what has happened.
Find out who did the crime and get justice to that soul.
According to an old proverb in policing,
"Every crime happens for one of three reasons,
one is Hennu, the other one is Honnu and then Mannu."
Hennu is because of love
and the relationship between men and women.
Honnu is because of wealth or assets.
Mannu is land, property.
These three things lead to conflict and that leads to crime.
Basically, when any crime happens we look at these three angles.
A lady has been murdered and her son is stabbed.
In fact, he's is badly injured.
His relatives have told him that his mother is alive.
See, if he knew that his mother is no more,
he won't be interested in life, right?
If he goes into depression, obviously it won't help the investigation.
And also, it's not good for him as an individual.
So it's better that he doesn't know that his mother is dead right now.
-What is your name? -Harish.
It is a terrible thing that has happened.
We can't change it now.
We can only pray that God gives you the courage to face it.
-Can we do anything for you? -I just want my mother to live.
My mother needs to live.
I am strong, but my mother isn't like that.
Let's see. She has a chance of survival.
She was hit hard.
Is that so?
My sister, she hit her with an iron rod that's used for cracking coconuts
and then stabbed her near the heart with a knife.
Had there been any fights before this?
There were no fights.
-No fights? -None.
Has she ever behaved violently before?
Did she have psychological problems?
No, she didn't.
Had she met with a psychiatrist?
Once, when she was younger, when I was in class 10.
She had a love affair.
She did?
My family didn't like it. My parents scolded her.
So she took lots of sleeping pills.
She consumed sleeping pills?
Yes, she did.
Then her lover came home.
He tried to wake her up, but she wouldn't.
They took her to the hospital.
They made her vomit and get it all out.
-Why didn't your sister get married? -She didn't want to get married.
She said she didn't want to get married?
Why? Was she in love with someone?
We asked her that, too. "Tell us if you're in love with someone."
She wouldn't say.
Harish, if you tell us everything you know,
we will get the information we need to investigate this properly.
-Please don't hide anything. -I am not hiding anything.
-She said nothing about getting married? -Nothing.
But she got calls.
She would take them upstairs and talk for 30 to 45 minutes each time.
If she used your phone, wouldn't you know which number she got calls from?
She deleted them.
She deleted them? Did she delete the messages, too?
Did you ever get the feeling that she was up to something?
-I didn't. -You never felt that?
I have many questions for her.
She needs to tell us why she did this.
-Be well. We will find her, all right? -Yes, sir.
Okay, be well.
Her mother brought them up.
Her hands and legs used to bleed,
but still she used to work to bring up the children.
She sacrificed her life.
The mother sacrificed her whole life, but then his sister did that.
So here's the question. "Why?"
I was also emotional when I was talking to him.
Imagining a situation where I do not have my mother or somebody has murdered,
it is not at all possible to digest.
We Indians, we are all pretty much connected to our parents.
I always have that fear, "What if my parents are not there?"
Any mistakes we do, they'll forgive us.
I cannot imagine a day without them.
In that mindset, in that kind of a society,
she has killed her own mother.
It looks like she has committed this crime,
but I suspect she is not the mastermind.
A disturbing case about a woman allegedly murdering her mother
and attacking her brother here in Bengaluru has come to light.
Joining us from the police force, senior police officer N. Anucheth.
What are the details and what's the status of the investigation?
On February 2nd, at 4:00 a.m. in a place called Akshayanagar,
a woman named Amrutha has murdered her mother, Nirmala,
and grievously injured her brother.
Based on her brother's testimony, we're investigating the murder.
-I'll give you a blank one. -Yes, sir.
This one?
Is this correct?
Yes, sir.
This is a very peculiar case. These things don't happen often.
I mean, it is a very rare case.
She's a techie and has been working as a software engineer.
We don't associate murders with a person from that field.
But the challenge in this case is that she is educated.
And from what we have seen so far, it is planned and prepared.
She has already escaped from the scene of the crime.
So it looks like she is one step ahead of us.
The last call was made on the 1st, at 12:00, to this number that ends in 35.
-No calls were made after that. -She hasn't used her phone since then.
When we're hunting for the suspect, we use technology to help us.
We get a hell of a lot of information
from the phone records, from the phone itself.
In this case, we're trying to find out somebody whom she frequently talked to,
and at what time and when.
What about this one? "740638."
-Check how often she spoke to "62." -This is him. The same guy.
His name is Sridhar Rao.
There have been eight calls to his number, yes?
Groundwork, especially when we analyze the call detail records,
gives us the contacts of all the people
whom either the accused or the victim were in contact with.
It opens multiple doors for investigation.
We start building a picture of who we're looking for.
Once I know whom they were in contact with,
we have to make a strategic decision here
to talk to that person whom the accused was in touch with or not.
They might also be involved.
What is your name, sir?
-My name is Prakash. -She was your younger sister?
Yes, my younger sister.
-Just the three lived in the house? -Yes, it was just the three of them.
We insisted she get married,
but here in the city, it's a digital life.
You never know how things will turn out.
What did she do for a living?
She completed her degree, then studied software engineering.
Getting her educated turned out to be a thorn in our flesh.
Is there a love story that led her to do this?
It's possible, but we don't know anything yet.
This is the number.
-Is this his number? -Yes.
Sridhar Rao?
We know that he used this phone number to talk to her.
With that information, we searched for him on Facebook.
These are his photos.
In policing, information is God.
If you have information, you are the king,
and social media gives you that information.
People are not at all cautious with respect to social media.
If you make it public, anybody in the world can view it.
-Did you get the vehicle number? -Is she his friend on there?
No, she isn't.
He has lots of women contacts, sir.
Women contacts?
He's already been there.
Mostly women are liking and commenting.
You know already…
You can tell he's good-looking from the photo.
You can see that.
If she wears makeup, she looks all right herself.
She looks good when she dresses up.
He must have brainwashed her.
As a child, I was very naughty, I never used to listen to my parents.
I was a local street boy.
My mother never wanted me to join the police.
Even now, she doesn't touch khaki.
She doesn't touch my baton, she doesn't touch my cap.
It scares her, because of the types of crimes I go to everyday.
There's a hell lot of excitement to wear khaki.
People used to say
that wearing the uniform is like having uranium, it's so powerful.
I used to get inspired by that.
Now I know that it's not uranium.
Maybe it's steel, but it's not uranium.
When I put on my uniform,
if I have a lead in any particular case, I'm very excited.
When I do not have a lead,
I know that it's going to be a hard day ahead.
Sir. Good morning, sir.
What's the latest information in the murder case?
We put in a lot of effort yesterday looking for CCTV footage.
We have a CCTV image of a motorbike.
We searched on Facebook like you suggested.
The pictures of the bikes match.
We believe the man on the bike is Sridhar Rao, sir.
It seems like he's Amrutha's boyfriend.
He's the one who took Amrutha away from the scene of crime.
She seems older than him.
She is 33, sir.
And Sridhar?
Sridhar seems younger.
He is younger.
How did he get so much money?
How did he go on so many holidays?
Yes, sir.
She has taken a loan of 500,000 rupees from HDFC bank.
Most of it has been transferred to his account.
Okay.
I think she may have done this because of her relationship with him.
Yes, sir.
Once we get him, we can do a deeper interrogation
and find out if he's done anything like this before.
Previous incident.
Or if he's been in relationships with other women and cheated them.
-It is impossible for her… -No, sir.
…to have done this by herself.
His background is more important than hers.
She came out, got on the bike with him and left.
He wouldn't have been there without prior planning.
She ran out right after the murder.
If he didn't know what had happened,
she would have had to call him and wait for him.
No chance.
-I'm 99% certain he knew about it. -There is a chance.
Everybody who is of my age,
or of the next generation, wants a better life.
Aspires to a very high standard of living.
Consumerism has increased in the last 20 years.
But the inclination towards saving is less compared to our parents' generation.
You want to go out, you want to go on trips, you want to buy good clothes.
The best education, the best cars, whatever.
So, that's okay as long as you're earning promotions.
Your salary is increasing day by day.
But when they don't match up and the gap widens,
that's when the problems starts.
Hello, sir.
We got the call records. The location is live again.
He is using an online travel booking website right now.
This is Sridhar's number.
That girl had three numbers.
They are switched off, but I'm tracking them.
We are following him on everything.
He is in Port Blair. There is a direct flight there.
It's a three-hour flight from Bangalore to Port Blair.
He has used his debit card. We're getting his message alerts.
We've got information from the bank that 8,000 rupees have been withdrawn.
He might use this money to book another flight.
I'll keep checking, sir.
Okay, goodbye.
Is the location correct?
The Port Blair location is correct, I checked.
The ticket was booked in Sridhar Rao's name.
Payment date, January 31st, 2020, confirmed.
The booking was made on the 31st. That means it was planned.
Okay, sir.
Good morning, sir.
Hello. Manjunath, what's going on?
We've found them, sir.
They're in Port Blair, sir.
Very nice.
When did you discover that?
This morning, when we collected the flight details from the airport.
We found that Amrutha and Sridhar both boarded the flight at 6:30 a.m.
A GoAir flight.
Almost all the money in her account has gone to Sridhar's account.
All the money transferred from her account has gone to Sridhar?
I'll talk to the DCP right away.
Okay, keep me informed of any developments.
Sure, sir. Thank you, sir.
Sir, good morning, sir.
It's confirmed the suspects are in the Andaman Islands.
The murder happened at around 4:00 a.m.
and they were already on the flight at 6:30 a.m.
I'm sending a team to Andaman.
Would you speak to the police there and ask for their help?
Every newspaper is running a story on this case.
The pressure on us to catch them is building.
When someone runs, we know that they are involved in the crime.
From Andaman and Nicobar, they can go to Sri Lanka,
they can go to Bangladesh.
That's what we are worried about.
If the accused leave Andaman and Nicobar,
I think it would be a tragedy for us in this investigation.
This is a very sensitive case, it's all over the media.
There is a lot of scrutiny on this case.
There are a lot of question marks as to the motive.
How are you?
So we know the how and we know the when.
We need to understand why she did it.
The why will only be answered when we arrest them and interrogate them.
That's when we'll learn the truth.
Good afternoon. Hi, I'm Anucheth,
I'm a 2009 batch officer, working as the DCP Whitefield.
What has happened… This happened on Sunday at 4:00 a.m.
There are two accused.
Okay?
Amrutha and this Sridhar Rao.
This Amrutha has killed her mother by stabbing her
and grievously injured her brother. He's in the hospital now.
Right now, one of Sridhar Rao's phone numbers
is still active in Andaman.
Okay, I'll just send you the details.
My team is leaving tomorrow morning at 4:30 a.m.
Inspector Ambarish and four staff.
If you can give some local crime branch officers with them,
we'll come and pick them up, okay?
Thank you so much. Please detain them. We are coming tomorrow, okay?
Four people are going?
Yes, sir.
Arrest them and bring them back.
Looking at all the facts, she has transferred a lot of money to him.
I think he has created the illusion that he is her soulmate,
or a true love kind of thing.
And played it really well.
And used her as a pawn to commit this murder.
Both Amrutha and Sridhar, they are quite educated.
They've done everything to conceal themselves.
No matter where they are,
we must pick them up and bring them to justice.
As of now, nobody in the media knows
they're located in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Everybody is speculating so we must ensure
that operation details are not leaked to the media.
We are confident we'll catch them, but there's always an element of doubt.
Get them, and inform me after it's done.
Okay, thank you.
The inspector has contacted the local police.
They are searching nearby areas and hotels.
Hello, sir.
We are tracking the accused's number.
If he makes a call, we might get his location.
Yes, sir.
We will catch them immediately.
The accused is here.
I have sent you the location.
His SIM card is active now. Please get to the location immediately.
He is talking to the parking attendant.
Please get there quickly, sir.
Walkie KR Puram, calling control.
We've arrested two people, sir.
One is Amrutha, 33 years old.
The second one is Sridhar.
Amrutha is detained.
Okay, they have been caught.
The DCP has messaged me saying they are secured.
Did she say anything about why she did it?
What is the travel plan, what time is the flight tomorrow?
So, she is a bit suicidal.
On February 2nd, under the KR Puram police limits,
in an area called Akshayanagar, a woman named Nirmala was murdered.
Her son, Harish, was severely injured.
It was verified that this was done by her daughter, Amrutha Chandrashekhar.
We followed the trail.
We have arrested them in Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Along with Amrutha Chandrashekhar,
we have also arrested Sridhar Rao, who was with her.
What's Sridhar's role in this?
We will know once we investigate further.
The woman and her friend have both been arrested at the Port Blair airport.
This 33-year old woman allegedly stabbed her mother, who was 52, with a knife.
We can get something at 3:00 p.m.
-I'll eat later. -What will you eat?
You'll feel weak.
What if you faint?
We will be held responsible for it.
Are you coming in today, sir?
Okay, sir.
Put her in custody for now.
The DCP wants to talk to her about why she did this.
The inspector says she is depressed.
She wrote a note saying she wants to commit suicide.
Bring in Sridhar.
-Are they in separate cells? -They are separated.
He's here, sir.
Come here.
It's fine. Now look, whatever has happened, has happened.
Okay?
What we want now is the truth.
How do you know this girl?
Well, five years ago,
in 2014, I completed my degree,
and I joined tech support at Apple Process.
We worked on the same team.
Were the two of you in a relationship?
We weren't in a relationship for the first two years.
They gave us a team to work with eight months ago,
we got into a relationship then.
What was the reason for killing the mother?
Sir, I don't know.
Look, don't think the people in this room are weak.
We are asking you properly now.
You're standing here and we're talking to you politely.
I'm warning you.
The alternative will sting.
Understand? Tell me why she killed her mother.
I swear in the name of God, I don't know.
I only found out in the Andamans when the police officer,
he took away my bike keys and said, "You're under arrest."
She was standing right next to me when that happened.
She said, "He doesn't know anything."
I said, "What happened? What's this about? Why am I under arrest?"
You think we're all stupid?
You can beat me and question me again, sir.
The last drop of my blood will say the same and that is the truth.
Hadn't she given you a lot of money?
-Yes, sir. -Why did she give you money?
Look at my bank records. I have a debt of 1,05 million rupees.
I had lent her money, too.
In a relationship, you help each other.
That's all, sir.
You've gone on many holidays, haven't you?
To Goa, and other places. Which countries have you travelled to?
-Where did you get the money for all that? -I used credit cards and bank loans.
You took bank loans to go on holidays?
Yes, sir, I believed that I could pay it back.
Amrutha was paying for it, too.
You've been dating for two years?
She is 33 years old. You could have married her.
We'll never be together, getting married or that kind of thing.
-She said that-- -This was a casual affair, then?
Do I look like that type?
You're physically close, yes?
Yes, sir.
But not-- We're not living together.
Why were you dating another woman simultaneously?
Another woman? What?
Look, if you won't be honest with us, we have other ways to extract the truth.
Weren't you dating another woman?
We know about the messages you sent to the other girl.
We want you to admit it.
Her name is Priya.
-You were dating Priya? -Yes, sir.
-Were you planning to marry her? -Yes.
-Amrutha was just a sideshow? -Not date…
You were messaging other women, too.
Who else?
We have all the info we need.
We know who you were talking with on your laptop,
who you spoke with on the phone, who you messaged,
what you said to Priya. We know everything.
We simply want to hear it from you.
I haven't met her, sir. I found her on Tinder.
Her profile name was Archie.
That's what I want to know, Archie. What else?
Look, man…
I am trying to remember, sir.
Should I tell you about the people I just said "hi" to?
-Have you met anyone from Tinder? -None.
You haven't met anyone from Tinder? Think before answering.
I'll repeat it 1,000 times, no.
Why did all these women transfer money to you?
This one did and I understand that.
Only Amrutha, sir.
I sent money to Priya because she is my fiancée.
Look, we know everything.
Stop lying. Where did all the money in your account come from?
Only from Amrutha and Priya.
-Not… -Hey, calm down.
I haven't taken money from anyone else.
I can send the cameras out and speak to you very differently.
Understand?
Keep your voice calm when you talk.
Okay, we're done. Is there anything else you want to say?
There is just one thing, sir.
I want to know what she has to say about this.
Did she kill her mother out of love?
She was not able to pay her debts.
She never told me about her problems, sir.
Is that all? Right, take him away.
I didn't know he was dating the other girl.
Did you know he was dating the other girl? He was simply using this one.
He's in two relationships at once.
I know someone who is seeing five women at once.
Sridhar has helped Amrutha.
We have CCTV footage of him taking her from the scene of the crime.
He also paid for the hotel on the island.
That's enough evidence for him to be charged in this case.
What we don't know yet
is whether he encouraged Amrutha to do this because of love,
or money,
or some other reason.
The media is full of speculation.
Only Amrutha has the answers.
What's your name?
Amrutha.
-What language should I speak? -Kannada.
Do you know Kannada?
-What did you study? -Engineering.
-Okay, when did your father pass away? -2013.
-What happened? -He had lung cancer.
He was getting treatment but then he had a heart attack.
-Did your mother have a job? -No.
A housewife, then?
-So you were at home? -Yes.
Did you do any work from home?
-No, I didn't. -What did you do for a living, then?
I used to work, but I have been unemployed for the last year and a half.
Why did you quit your job?
I have an engineering degree and wanted to be a Java developer.
-My younger brother was still working. -Was his salary enough to live on?
It would have been enough if we weren't in debt.
It was impossible to repay our loans.
How big were your debts?
400,000 rupees in my name and 400,000 in my brother's.
Okay.
And another 300,000 in Bajaj Finance.
-That's 1,100,000 rupees. Plus charges? -1,500,000 rupees all in.
-And you were unable to repay it? -That's right.
Every month, what I'm doing is taking from one
from somewhere and paying to somewhere.
Okay.
How was your relationship with Sridhar?
As a friend, not as a…
Did you guys ever want to get married?
We never thought of marriage because we are not yet settled.
Okay, so you never approached your mom, saying…
Actually, my mom always wanted me to get married.
They're not opposed to love marriage or inter-caste marriage.
They're like, "If you're in love with someone, just speak out."
"We'll make you get married."
So it was never this issue?
No, I told them, "Let me first get settled and afterwards we'll see."
Is there any loan in Sridhar's name?
Speak freely, tell me if you have given him money,
or if he has taken any from you.
We are still repaying an old loan. I gave him 80,000 rupees.
In cash?
How much is the monthly installment?
-Three thousand rupees. -Are you paying it, or is he?
I am paying for it.
The work which I was doing, no doubt, I was earning very good.
But after working for three, four years, I was like, "I'm off track."
This was not what I dreamt of.
This is not my path. This is not my ultimate goal.
I am earning. That's it.
There is no happiness there.
I left the job without a backup plan.
So I could neither reach my goal, nor could I survive.
Why did you murder your mother?
I had been feeling suicidal for a long time.
I couldn't repay my debts,
but if I committed suicide, my brother would struggle
to pay the loans I had in his name.
I worried that my mother would be sad if debt collectors turned up at the house.
Did you tell your mom you were feeling these things?
A few times, maybe, I told her that I'm feeling low.
For which she said, "Come, sleep on my lap." Many of them said,
"You have so many relatives, you could ask money from them."
But I never wanted to ask someone for something.
-That is what I am from the-- -Selfish?
Not selfishness, sir.
-Pride? -It's pride.
That is what I am from the time my dad died.
Because I decided to live my life like that.
Living in a village, you live happily with whatever you have.
You don't need to compete with anyone there.
But that doesn't happen in Bangalore.
You have to adjust to the lifestyle that is upgrading every day.
I can't blame the city for that. Of course we're developing.
But somewhere I think…
people start feeling that they are left alone.
They are left out.
We were not, maybe, ready.
We were never ready for living in a city that is growing every minute.
In that fight, yeah, I lost the battle.
The fact that she is a woman, it is rare,
especially women who commit murders, but it's not unheard of.
The surprising fact to me was that she was the daughter.
In my 11 years of service,
I've never seen a daughter killing her mother.
She confessed completely to committing the murder
and having planned the murder for the past six months.
It started as a small debt,
which she was trying to repay through her job.
But after she started this relationship with this Sridhar,
she was living beyond her means.
She was living a life of luxury that she could not afford.
She bought him a bike, a lot of expensive gifts,
they were going on holidays.
She was buying things that she did not need to, but wanted.
She was worried about what we call in our local parlance,
"Maana maryade,"
which is social standing in society.
She felt miserable.
And she felt that her brother and mother were also miserable,
as miserable as her and she wanted to end the misery.
So basically she decided… their fates.
She basically had decided to go with her boyfriend
to Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and there, commit suicide.
So that was her plan.
I never spoke to my mom or my brother about whatever I'm going through.
Maybe speaking would have been… better.
Would have made this situation better.
I did think through a lot about what might happen
if I end my life.
What my mom, my brother might go through if I died.
I don't think that she could show her face to anyone ever again.
They would have blamed her for everything I did.
There is no one else I love more than my mother and my brother.
I couldn't leave her to live life with so much pain.
She said that she wanted to save her mother from the humiliation.
I guess that was born out of her understanding of love for her mother.
But it's a very perverted sense of love, right?
As in, you don't kill a person because you love them so much.
I feel that she was going through psychological issues.
I don't know what it was, but I'm sure she was going through something.
But when you talk to the crowd, they say, "Thayi ne kondidalle."
She has killed her own mother. She is the biggest criminal.
I was not seeing her from those angles.
I wanted to put in the case that she was going through something,
but we couldn't do it because there's no evidence for that.
To every person I've met,
I've told them that Sridhar is not there in any of this.
Whatever he got to know about the incident is from others.
He's not a partner in any way.
I told him nothing.
I can only face this world again or my brother again
only after taking the punishment for whatever wrong I have done.
He wants to talk.
Let them talk.
How could you think of doing such a thing?
How could you do this?
She loved everyone so much and you did this to her.
You have no shame. May you burn in hell.
Don't bother talking to her. Throw her on the railway track.
I do understand what she was thinking.
I do understand.
But that doesn't mean you do it.
She was well-educated, she had worked.
She came to the wrong conclusion.
What she did was unpardonable.
This is Police Emergency. How can I help you?
A body has been found near Mount Senoria School.
A body? Is he dead?
I haven't looked, but everyone is saying he is dead.
Enough, no police will come near my child.
Pull her away.
-Take her away. -Let me go!
When there has been a murder,
I look at it like it's happened to me or someone I know.
That's how I treat every offence.
When something happens,
I feeI I have failed in my role as the "father" who protects society.
But what matters most to me is finding the truth.
Look at her arrogance!
She snatched my son from me!
Look how my son is lying there!
-It's okay. -She has killed my son.
All injuries are to the head.
There aren't any defensive injuries on his arms.
Normal people who lead normal lives don't get murdered like this.