Techie’s murder: B’lore family’s wait for body gets longer as Oz police continue probe

Shubhadeep Choudhury 

Advertisement

Tribune News Service                                                                       

Bengaluru, March 10

“I am with her daughter. I shall call you in a while please", said Trijesh in a broken voice before hanging up abruptly on this correspondent for a third time in a span of 20 minutes.

Trijesh told this reporter that though they were expecting Arun Kumar, the victim’s husband, to return tomorrow with the body, the Australian police were still not done with the formalities. Trijesh was alone with his cousin, Meghna, the nine-year-old daughter of the Indian woman techie murdered in a park in Sydney in Australia on Saturday. Prabha (41), who worked with an Indian IT company, Mindtree, was in Australia in connection with a project. Meghna does not yet know that her mom is no more.

Even when Arun flew to Sydney on Saturday night with the faint hope that though Prabha was stabbed she might still be alive, Trijesh and his family members knew that Prabha had already died. They did not divulge this to Arun fearing that it would torment him during the long travel.

Tragically, the husband was on long distance phone call with his wife when she was attacked by her murderer. Prabha died after being slashed across the throat with a sharp-edged object.

Trijesh and his parents do not want to break the news of her mother's death to Meghna. They simply do not have the heart to tell the tragedy to the child.

This is turning out to be a tough job. Meghna does not have to go to school due to the approaching examination. She, however, has access to media and there is considerable coverage in the local media regarding the sensational murder of a city woman in distant Sydney.