Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Feb 6: Amrutha Chandrashekhar, who in the wee hours of Sunday allegedly killed her sleeping mother and then stabbed her younger brother before fleeing and mysteriously vanishing, was arrested along with her 35-year-old boyfriend Sridhar Rao in Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Islands on Wednesday, February 5. Both were brought to Bengaluru for interrogation.

Amritha Chandrashekhar (33) from Akshay Nagar in K R Puram here, and her lover Sridhar Rao, have been named as accused in the murder by deputy commissioner of police (Whitefield division) M N Anuchet.

Amrutha Chandrashekhar

Nirmala, the woman who was killed, is from Davanagere district. She was living with son, Harish, and daughter, Amrita, in a rented house in Akshay Nagar K R Puram here. Amrita used to work as software engineer for a private company at Marathahalli. In the recent past, she had secured job in a prestigious company at Hyderabad.

Amritha had planned to take her mother and brother on Hyderbad trip on February 2. The entire family was to board flight to Hyderabad on February 2 morning. All the family members had gone to bed after dinner the previous night. Harish slept in the room while Nirmala and Amrita slept in the hall of the house. Harish said in a police complaint that he suddenly was shaken out of sleep at 4 am because of sound made by an almirah in his room. He said he saw Amritha had opened the almirah and that she was searching for something. "When I questioned her, she attacked me and stabbed the right side of my neck for murdering me. When I escaped from her and wanted to know about my mother, she said that she had stabbed her mother and hit her with a hoe and killed her," he added.

He said when questioned about the motive of the murder, Amritha told him that she had raised loan of about Rs 15 lac and the lenders have threatened to come to her home. "She said that she wanted to kill me and my mother before fleeing as she does not want our reputations to be sullied. As blood was oozing from my neck, I became very weak. When I tried to catch hold of her, she pushed me away and ran out," he stated.

CCTV images showed Amritha fleeing with Sridhar Rao after the dastardly act. The police succeeded in arresting both of them from Port Blair. It is said that the police, who believed that the murder happened because of financial issues, realized during the questioning that the murders were committed as the family members were opposed to Amritha's plan to marry Sridhar Rao.