Former Karnataka DGP murder: Om Prakash's daughter Kriti discharged from hospital, detained for questioning

BENGALURU: The HSR Layout police, investigating the murder case of former director general of police and inspector general of police (DG & IGP) Om Prakash, detained his daughter Kriti in the early hours of Wednesday.
According to sources, Kriti, who was admitted to Nimhans Hospital for evaluation on Monday, was discharged. The doctors who evaluated her informed the police that she was doing well. Consequently, the HSR Layout police rushed to the hospital and took her to the police station.
A senior officer told TOI, "After Kriti’s discharge from the hospital, we have to keep her in a safe place. As she is still an accused in the case and her role is yet to be established, we cannot let her go somewhere. So, she is brought to the police station and is subjected to questioning." The assistant commissioner of police (Madiwala) is investigating the case.
However, the police commissioner, B Dayananda, transferred the case to the central crime branch (CCB) on Monday late evening. The investigation is assigned to an ACP rank officer at CCB. The newly assigned IO is yet to take the case file from the Madiwala ACP and begin the probe.
"We will be handing over the case file and Kriti, the suspect in the case, to the new IO today. It is for the new IO to further interrogate her, establish her role, and take further necessary action. The new IO will be filing a petition in the court seeking the police custody of Prakash’s wife, Pallavi Om Prakash, 64, on a body warrant. She was remanded to 14 days judicial custody by a magistrate on Monday night."
Prakash was killed in his house in MCHS Layout in HSR Layout 6th sector on Sunday afternoon. He was brutally stabbed to death. According to his elder son, Karthikesh Om Prakash, 39, his mother Pallavi and sister Kriti are suspects in his father’s murder.
Pallavi maintained that she alone killed her husband and that Kriti had no role in it. She also claimed that Kriti is mentally disturbed due to domestic violence from Prakash.
Kriti has not been cooperating with the investigation from day one. When the police rushed to the house after learning about the murder, she was on the third floor and refused to open the door.
The police had to forcefully enter the floor and detain her. She also allegedly created a ruckus in the station on Monday evening as police were not able to get any leads regarding her involvement in the murder and scolded police for detaining her.