Bengaluru police have cracked a chilling serial homicide case spanning sixteen days, detaining 52-year-old cab driver Indushekar after he confessed to orchestrating the murders of seven family members to seize control of prime real estate.
Had investigators not recovered the victims' bodies from multiple drop sites across Bengaluru rural and urban districts, the chilling claim might have been dismissed as an impossible delusion. Police initially doubted the cab driver's voluntary confession. Then the recovery teams began unearthing the remains.
The killings wiped out three generations of a single household. The victims include Indushekar's wife Sunitha, his mother-in-law Roopavathi, brothers-in-law Shivakumar and Shankar, their spouses Nalini and Divya, and Roopavathi's seven-year-old grandson Puneeth.
A prime property valued at ₹3 crore in central Bengaluru's Srirampura locality served as the central catalyst for the killings. Indushekar had repeatedly pressured his mother-in-law, Roopavathi, to partition and transfer a dominant share of the residential parcel directly to him. She refused. Roopavathi insisted that any division must guarantee equal shares for her two sons, Shivakumar and Shankar.
Police interrogation revealed that Indushekar harbored deep-seated resentment over the refusal, claiming his wife and her relatives routinely humiliated and belittled him during domestic disputes.
The greed turned clinical in execution. Immediately after murdering each victim, the accused allegedly pressed their thumbs against blank stamp papers to fabricate transfer deeds before disposing of the corpses.
Hearing him explain the motive, interrogators recorded a stark admission:
I am at peace and satisfied now.
Indushekar, during police questioning
Between October 16 and October 31, Indushekar executed the killings one by one inside his residence. He initiated the bloodshed on October 16, fatally striking his wife Sunitha with a household grinding stone following an argument. He transported her body under the cover of night and dumped it near Nandi Hills.
Then came the methodical deception. Indushekar phoned the remaining relatives over the next two weeks using the victims' own mobile devices to deflect suspicion, telling relatives that family members had traveled out of town or inviting his brothers-in-law over for private drinking sessions. Once they arrived, he killed them sequentially.
Having promised his daughter that she would inherit her late mother’s real estate assets, Indushekar enlisted her active assistance in sanitizing the crime scene. She procured specialized industrial cleaning agents and chemical solvents, repeatedly scrubbing floorboards and walls to eradicate blood evidence between killings. The daughter also assisted her father in packing the bodies into vehicles to scatter them across isolated rural tracts.
| Case Parameter | Official Detail |
|---|---|
| Prime Accused | Indushekar (alias Shekhar), 52, cab driver |
| Co-Accused | Daughter of the prime accused |
| Number of Victims | 7 (Wife, mother-in-law, 2 brothers-in-law, 2 sisters-in-law, 1 minor) |
| Disputed Asset | ₹3 crore residential property in Srirampura, Bengaluru |
| Crime Span | October 16 to October 31 |
| Method of Disposal | Transported to multiple drop sites including Nandi Hills |
Bengaluru investigators are currently cross-referencing forensic test results from the residence with the seized stamp paper documentation while finalizing formal chargesheets against both Indushekar and his daughter ahead of their upcoming magistrate remand hearing.