It was an older sister’s quest for answers that undid what is suspected to be a neatly laid plan six months after her sibling’s death.

On April 24, an unresponsive Kruthika M Reddy, 29, a dermatologist, was wheeled into Bengaluru ’s Cauvery Hospital, where she was declared dead.

While the family and doctors assumed that Kruthika had died of natural causes — she was being treated for gastritis by her surgeon husband Mahendra Reddy G S, 31, from April 21 onwards — Nikitha M Reddy, a radiologist, wanted answers.

In fact, Nikitha’s insistence on knowing the exact cause of her sister’s death forced the hospital to send a Medico Legal Case (MLC) report to the Marathahalli police station, which registered a case related to unnatural death under the relevant sections.

Six months on, Nikitha’

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