The Bengaluru city police on Wednesday said they arrested a 31-year-old surgeon for killing his wife by giving her a high-dose anaesthetic injection six months ago. While initially the doctor claimed it was a case of natural death, the postmortem reports suggested that the woman had been injected with an anaesthetic.

On April 24, Dr Kruthika M Reddy, 29, was declared dead on arrival when taken to Cauvery Hospital by her parents, with whom she was living, after she was found unresponsive in her room. Three days before that, she had complained of gastritis and was treated by her husband, Dr Mahendra Reddy G S, according to the police.

Dr Mahendra had provided her medicine through IV drips. Around noon on April 23, Kruthika asked him on WhatsApp whether she could remove the IV drips as she

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