Moments before lighting the funeral pyre, faint blood marks on his sisters face, stopped him. The sister as per the family claims died due to a sudden heart attack. "Why are there bloodstains on her face if she died after a heart attack?" he wondered. That hesitation at the cremation ground went on to expose an alleged murder plot driven by money and betrayal
The woman, B Pushpavati, 52, as per a report by Times of India had not died of a heart attack, rather she was allegedly smothered to death, and the people accused of killing her are her own daughter and son in law. Tumakuru district police, acting on a complaint lodged by her brother S Anil Kumar, arrested the couple on Friday on charges of murder. Investigators suspect greed for Rs 40 lakh was the motive.
Pushpavati, a resident of Kyatasandra in Tumakuru district, had been living alone since her husband’s death a year ago. In the early hours of Thursday (February 12), Kumar received a call saying she had suffered a heart attack. He rushed to her home by evening but noticed suspicious bloodstains near her nostrils.
When he questioned his niece, Suchitra Suresh, 30, she dismissed the marks as mosquito bites. The explanation only deepened his suspicion. Refusing to allow the hurried cremation arranged by the family, he alerted the police and stopped the body from being taken away.
Officers from the Kyatasandra police station shifted the body for a postmortem. Doctors indicated that Pushpavati had been smothered to death while asleep on the night between February 11 and 12. During interrogation, Suchitra and her husband Suresh Kumar allegedly confessed to the crime.
Police said Pushpavati had recently sold a property and deposited Rs 40 lakh in her bank account. Investigators suspect her daughter plotted the murder to gain control of the funds.
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