Bengaluru: Bengaluru Police Commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh on Thursday said investigators had collected pieces of evidence to file a strong chargesheet in the case where a city-based surgeon has been accused of murdering his dermatologist wife with an anaesthetic drug.

“The forensic evidence has given clarity on how the crime was committed and what would have been the probable motive. The police are building the chargesheet as required,” Singh said.

On October 14, the Marathahalli police arrested Mahendra Reddy G S, 31, a surgeon, from Manipal. He was booked for murdering his wife, Kruthika M Reddy (29), by administering propofol in multiple doses between April 21 and 24.

Kruthika died on April 24. The police arrested Mahendra nearly six months later, after a forensic report confirme

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