-Hello, sir. -What is it, sir?
There has been a murder and attempted murder in KR Puram.
Who is the deceased?
A woman called Nirmala. Age 55.
Nirmala, age 55.
-What was the murder weapon? -A knife, sir.
-Where was she stabbed? -In the chest.
Her son is also injured.
The injured is Harish, age 31.
They have admitted him to Koshys Hospital.
Sir, Manoj, ACP, Whitefield.
I'm going to meet the son in the hospital
and see if he can give us any information.
Since he's an eyewitness, I'll speak with him
and give you all the details.
Okay, sir.
Thank you, sir.
As soon as a murder happens and I get a call,
my only thing which will be running 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,
"Any crime happens because of three reasons,
one is Hennu, the other one is Honnu and then Mannu."
Hennu is because of love.
A relationship between man and women.
Honnu is because of wealth or assets.
Mannu is because of land, property.
These three things leads to conflict and that leads to crime.
Basically, when any crime happens we look at these three angles.
Some lady has been murdered and her son is stabbed.
In fact, he's is badly injured.
Now the relatives have told him that his mother is alive.
See, if he knew that his mother is no more,
he will not be interested in anything 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.
Harish.
A terrible thing that has happened.
We can't change that now.
We can only pray for the courage to face it.
Anything we can do for you?
I want my mother to live.
I just want her to live.
I am strong, but my mother isn't.
Let's see. She may survive.
She was hit hard.
Really?
My sister hit her with an iron rod that's used for cracking coconuts
and then stabbed her near the heart.
Had there been any other fights before this?
No fights, sir.
-None at all? -No, sir.
Has she ever been violent before?
Or had any psychological problems?
Nothing like that.
Had she ever seen a psychiatrist?
Once, when she was younger, I was in class 10.
-Okay. -She had a love affair.
Did she?
My family didn't like it.
My parents would scold her.
So she took lots of sleeping pills.
She took pills?
Yes.
Her lover came home and tried to wake her,
but she wouldn't wake up.
They took her to the hospital
and made her vomit everything and get it all out.
Why didn't she get married?
She didn't want to.
She didn't want to get married?
Why? Was she in love with someone?
We asked her that. "Tell us if you're in love with someone."
But she wouldn't say.
Harish, if you tell us everything you know,
we will have all the information we need to do our job properly.
Okay? So, please do not hide anything.
I'm not hiding anything, sir.
-She said nothing about marriage? -Nothing.
But she got calls.
She used to go upstairs and talk for at least half an hour.
She used your phone, wouldn't you have all those number?
She deleted them.
She deleted them? The messages too?
Did you ever get the feeling that she was maybe up to something?
-No. -You never felt that?
I just want to ask her why she did all this.
Okay. Get well soon.
We will find her, all right?
-Take care of yourself. -Yes, sir.
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 whole life.
The mother, she sacrificed her whole life,
but then his sister did that.
So he asked 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,
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.
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 of the case
and what’s the status of the investigation?
On February 2nd, at about 4:00 a.m.,
in a place called Akshayanagar,
a woman by the name of Amrutha has murdered her mother, Nirmala,
and grievously injured her brother.
Based on the complaint of her brother, we had taken up a case of murder.
I'll give you a blank one.
-This one? -Yes.
-Is this correct? -Yes, sir.
Show.
This is a very peculiar case. These things don’t happen often.
I mean, it's 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, you know, escaped from the scene of the crime.
So it looks like she is one step ahead of us.
Is it for probation?
The last call was made on the 1st, at twelve o'clock
to this number that ends in 35.
No calls were made after that.
Is the third number the sisters?
She hasn't used the 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? -This?
"740638."
Note how often she spoke to the number ending in "62."
This is him.
His name is Sridhar Rao.
Highest number of calls have been made to this number.
Groundwork, especially when we analyze the call detail record,
gives us the contacts of all the people
whom either the accused or the victim were in contact with.
It opens up 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? -I am Prakash.
-Was she your younger sister? -Yes, she was.
Only three members in the family?
Yes, three of them.
We insisted Amrutha to get married,
but in this city, in this digital life,
you never know how things will work out.
-What did she do? -Software engineer.
She got her degree, and then did engineering.
Giving her an education was the biggest mistake we made.
Did her love affair make her do this?
Quite possible. I'm not sure.
-Show him the number. -Sir, have a look at this.
-Is this his number? -Yes.
-Sridhar Rao? -Yeah.
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.
Got the vehicle number?
Is she on his friends list?
No, sir.
But his friends list is full of women.
Full of women?
The people who like and comment on his posts are mostly women.
This is a photo of him. He's good-looking guy.
If she wears makeup, she also looks all right.
She looks good when she dresses up.
He must have brainwashed her, sir.
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 crime I go to every day.
There’s a hell lot of excitement to wear khaki.
There were a few people who used to say
that wearing the uniform is like 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 the uniform in the morning,
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 update on the murder case?
Sir, we put in a lot of effort looking through CCTV footage yesterday.
We found a video of a motorbike.
And 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 crime scene.
She looks older than him.
She's 33.
And Sridhar?
Sridhar seems younger.
Yeah, he's younger.
How did he get so much money?
And go on so many holidays?
Yes, sir.
She took a loan of 500,000 rupees from HDFC bank
and transferred most of it to his account.
Okay. I think she may have done this
because they both may be in a relationship with each other.
Once we get him, we can do a thorough 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 to have done this by herself.
His background is more important than her background.
She came out, got on his bike and left.
He wouldn't have been there without prior planning.
See? 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.
But that didn't happen.
-I'm 99% certain he knew about it. -Yes, sir.
Everybody who is of my age,
or of the next generation, wants a better life.
Aspires to a very high standard of living.
The 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 of education, the best of 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,
I think that’s when the problems starts.
We went through the call records. The location is live again.
He used a travel booking site to make the booking.
This is Sridhar's number.
The girl has three numbers.
No, they are switched off, but I'm tracking them.
We are tracking his every move.
He's in Port Blair. There is a direct flight there.
It's a three-hour journey from Bangalore to Port Blair.
It's a morning flight.
He used his debit card. We're getting his message alerts.
We got a message that he's already withdrawn 8,000 rupees.
He might use that money to book another flight.
I'll keep checking, sir. I'll follow up.
Okay, goodbye.
Is the location correct? Port Blair?
Yes, sir I checked. It's Port Blair.
The ticket was booked in Sridhar Rao's name.
on 31st January, 2020.
It's a confirmed ticket.
The booking was made on the 31st. So it was planned.
Okay, sir.
Good morning, sir.
Manjunath, tell me.
We've found them, sir. They are in Port Blair.
Very nice.
When did you find out?
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 been transferred to Sridhar's account.
All the money transferred from her account has gone to Sridhar?
I'll talk to the DCP right away.
Okay, Manjunatha, keep me updated.
Sure, sir. Thank you, sir. Thanks.
Sir, good morning, sir.
It's confirmed, sir. The suspects are in the Andaman Islands.
The murder happened at around 4:00 a.m.
and they were on the flight by 6:30 a.m.
Sir, I'm planning to send a team to Andaman.
Would you speak to the police there and ask if they can 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 of this case.
And there's a lot of question marks as to the motive.
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 number of Sridhar Rao is still active in Andaman.
Okay, I’ll just send you the details.
My team is leaving tomorrow morning at 4:30 a.m.
My Inspector Ambarish and four staff.
If you can give some local crime branch officer with them,
we’ll come and pick them up, okay?
Thank you so much. Please detain them. We are coming tomorrow, okay?
-Only four people? -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 the 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 we have to bring them to justice.
As of now, nobody in the media knows
they're located in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Everybody is speculating about it so we have to ensure
that our operation details are not leaked to the media.
There's no point waiting here. Let's wait there.
We are confident of catch them, but there’s always an element of doubt.
Update me after you get them.
Okay? Hmm?
Okay, thank you.
The inspector has already contacted the local police.
We are checking local places and hotels.
They're looking everywhere.
Namaste, sir.
We are tracking the number of the suspect.
If he makes a call, we can get his location.
Yes, sir.
We will arrest him immediately.
The accused is here.
I have sent the location.
His SIM is active now. You can reach him right away.
He's speaking to the parking attendant.
Okay. Please get there quickly, sir.
Walkie KR Puram, to calling control.
We've arrested two people, sir.
One is Amrutha, 33 years old.
The second one is Sridhar.
Amrutha is detained.
Okay, we got them.
The DCP's message says they are secured.
And after that, did she say anything about why she did it?
Hmm.
What is the travel plan, what time is the flight tomorrow?
Okay.
So, she's a bit suicidal.
On the 2nd of February under the KR Puram police limits,
in an area called Akshayanagar, a woman named Nirmala was murdered.
And her son, Harish, was severely injured.
The information points towards the daughter, Amrutha Chandrashekhar.
We followed this information
and we have arrested her in Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Along with Amrutha Chandrashekhar,
we have also arrested Sridhar Rao, who was with her.
Who's Sridhar? Why was he arrested?
We will know once we investigate.
The woman and this 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.
It's three o'clock. We can order something.
-No, I don't want. -Eat something.
You'll feel weak.
What if you faint?
We will be held responsible for it.
Okay, sir.
Are you coming today, sir?
Okay.
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 had written a note saying she wants to commit suicide.
-I'll talk to them. Bring in Sridhar. -Okay.
-Are they in separate cells? -Yes, in separate cells.
He's here, sir.
Come in. It's fine.
Look, what's happened, has happened.
Okay?
We want the truth.
How do you know this girl?
Well, five years ago,
around 2014, I completed my graduation.
After that I joined tech support at Apple Process.
We worked on the same team there.
Were you both in a relationship?
Not for the first two years.
They put us in the same team eight months ago,
which is when we started dating.
Why was the mother killed?
I don't know, sir.
Look, don't take our kindness for weakness.
We are being nice right now and asking you very politely.
I'm warning you, the other way will be very painful.
You're getting what I'm saying?
So, tell me, why did she kill her mother?
I swear to God, I don't know.
I only found out about it in the Andamans when the ACP officer arrived.
He took away my bike keys and said, "You are under arrest."
She was standing right next to me when that happened.
She said, "No, he doesn't know anything."
I was like, "What happened? What's this about? Why am I under arrest?"
You think we're fucking idiots?
You can question me as much as you want
or beat me till I bleed to death.
But what I'm saying is the truth.
Hadn't she given you a lot of money?
-Yes, sir. -For what?
Sir, you can check my bank records. I have a debt of 150,000 rupees.
But I have lent her money too.
We have helped each other out often. That's all, sir.
You've gone on many trips, right?
We have all the records.
Goa, and other places within the country and abroad too, I'm sure.
Where did you get the money for all that?
Credit cards and bank loans.
Bank loans for holidays?
Yes, sir, I thought I could pay it back.
Amrutha was also helping me pay it.
You're dating her, right, since last two years?
-Not for that long, sir. -You could have got married to her.
We’ll never be together, getting married or that kind of thing.
-She said that-- -So, you were just fooling around?
I'm not like that, sir.
You’re physically close, huh?
Yes, sir.
-Huh? -Yes, sir.
But we were not staying together.
Why were you dating other woman simultaneously?
When you two were together, how many other girls were you dating?
Sir, there was no other girl.
Look, if you lie to us,
we have other ways to get the truth.
Weren't you dating another woman?
We know about the messages you sent her.
We just want you to admit it.
Her name is Priya.
-So, Priya too? -Yes, sir.
-Fiancée? -Yes, sir.
-Not Amrutha? -Sir, we were just--
You were messaging other women too.
Who, sir?
We have all the information.
Your laptop and phone conversations, who you messaged,
what you said to Priya.
We know everything.
We just want to hear it from you, okay?
Sir, this other girl, I haven't met her.
Just some Tinder profile called Archie.
Now we are talking. Archie… Next?
I'm waiting.
I am trying to remember, sir.
I mean, you even want the name of the people I've just said "hi" to?
-No one else from Tinder? -No, sir.
-Are you sure? Think carefully. -I'm sure.
One hundred percent.
Why did they all give you money?
I get why Amrutha did.
Only Amrutha, sir.
But in Priya's case, I sent money to her because she's my fiancée.
Now, stop lying.
-Tell the truth. -I'm not lying, sir.
We know everything.
Where did all the money in your account come from?
Sir, only from Amrutha and Priya. That's it.
Don't shout. Speak softly.
I have not taken money from anyone else.
Don't lie, speak the truth.
If you want, I can send all the cameras out
and then we'll have a very different conversation.
-You want that? -Speak softly.
Keep your voice down.
We're done.
Anything else you want to say?
Just one thing, sir.
I want to know what she has to say about this.
Why did she kill her mother?
Did she kill her out of love?
Was she not able to pay her debts?
I just want to know what really made her take the steps.
She never really told me anything about her problems, sir.
That's it? Take him.
Move.
I didn't really know that he was dating any other girl.
-Did you guys know? -No, sir.
He was engaged to one girl and just using this one.
That means he was dating two girls simultaneously.
I know someone who is seeing five women at the same time.
You know, Sridhar has helped Amrutha.
We have CCTV footage of him taking her from the scene of crime.
He also paid for the hotel on the island.
That is 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 can tell us the answers.
-What's your name? -Amrutha.
-Huh? -Amrutha.
-What language do you speak? -Kannada.
You speak Kannada?
-What did you study? -Engineering.
Okay.
When did your father pass away?
2013.
-How? -He had lung cancer.
He was getting treatment, but he died of a heart attack.
-Did your mother work? -No.
-Homemaker? -Yes.
So she was at home.
Do you also work from home?
-Not from home. -What do you do for a living, then?
I used to work, but I had been unemployed for the last year and a half.
Why did you leave?
Because I wanted to be a Java developer.
And my brother had a job.
He earned enough.
It would have been enough if we weren't in debt.
But it was impossible to repay our loans.
How much were they?
400,000 rupees each in my name brother's name and mine.
Okay.
And 300,000 in Bajaj Finance.
That's 1,1 million rupees. Plus charges?
1,500,000.
-You were unable to repay it? -Yes, sir.
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 or something, saying…
Actually, my mom always wanted me to get married.
They're not opposed to love marriage or inter-caste marriage or anything.
They're like, "It's okay. If at all 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 a loan in Sridhar's name?
Speak freely, tell me if you have given him some money,
or if he has taken any from you.
We are repaying an old loan. I gave him 80,000.
In cash?
How much is the monthly installment?
-Three thousand. -And you're paying it?
Yes.
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'm 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.
But if I can't repay my debts and commit suicide,
my brother would struggle to pay the loans
that I had taken in his name.
I feared that my mother would be sad if debt collectors turned up at home.
Did you ever tell your mom you were feeling these things?
A few times, maybe, I would have told her I'm feeling low.
For which she'll say, "It's okay. 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 selfish.
-Pride? -Self-respect.
That is what I am from the time my dad is no more.
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's 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 the city which 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 fact that was surprising 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 out on holidays.
She was buying things which 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 or 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, would have been… better.
Would have made this situation better.
I did think through a lot about what happens
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.
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 she was going through,
but I’m sure she was going through something.
But when you generally 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 put 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.
Don't talk to her. It's useless talking to her.
How could you even think of doing such a thing?
Let it be.
She loved everyone and you did this to her?
You have no shame. Burn in hell.
Don't waste your time on her. Throw her under a train. Useless.
I do understand what she was thinking.
I do understand.
But, uh, 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.
Police Emergency. How may I help you?
Near Mount Senoria School, they found a body.
Is it a dead body?
Seems dead, madam. That's what they're saying.
-She killed my son. -Please take her away.
-She killed my son. -Take her away.
She killed my son.
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 offense.
When something happens,
I feel I have failed in my role as the "father" protecting society.
But what matters to me the most is finding the truth.
Look at her arrogance!
She snatched my son from me.
Look how my son is lying there.
-Okay. Calm down. -Don't take him.
Bring her here. Kill her.
All injuries are to the head.
No defense injuries on his arms. Make a note of that.
Why are you looking at me?
My son is dead. Don't take him anywhere.
Normal people living normal lives don't get murdered like this.