Bengaluru woman asks doctor for pills to kill mother-in-law, later claims suicide intent

Bengaluru woman asks doctor for pills to kill mother-in-law, later claims suicide intent

A Bengaluru doctor received a shocking request from a woman asking for tablets to kill her mother-in-law. He informed her that doctors save lives, prompting her to delete the messages. The woman, later traced by police, admitted she wanted to commit suicide and didn't intend to harm anyone else.

TNN Feb 20, 2025, 7:45 IST

A north Bengaluru doctor was shocked by a woman's WhatsApp message asking for tablets to kill her mother-in-law. The doctor reported the incident to the police, who later traced the woman.

Bengaluru: A north Bengaluru doctor was shocked when a woman sent him a WhatsApp message asking for tablets to kill her mother-in-law. But Dr Sunil Kumar from Sanjay Nagar replied that doctors are there to save lives and not to take them, prompting the woman to delete all her messages.

Dr Kumar approached police Tuesday, requesting them to identify the woman and act against her. "This is shocking; it also pains me to see in what time we are living; a woman seeking a doctor's help to kill her mother-in-law with tablets. I clearly told her (through messages) that doctors are there to save lives but not take them; when I said so, she deleted the messages. However, I saved the screenshots and handed them over to police," he told the media.

According to Dr Kumar, he received the messages around 2:10pm Monday. "She typed in Kannada and first said she wanted to ask for something. Then she messaged, asking what if I scolded her; I then asked her what it was about. Then she asked me to prescribe some tablets to kill her aged mother-in-law. She explained that her mother-in-law was 70 years old and would harass her," police quoted the doctor as saying in his complaint.

By the time the woman deleted her messages, Dr Kumar had taken their screenshots.

Meanwhile, Sanjay Nagar police succeeded in tracing the woman by Wednesday evening and summoned her to the station for questioning. Accompanied by her husband, she stated that she actually wanted to commit suicide and never wanted to kill her mother-in-law.

"If I had asked the doctor for tablets to kill myself, he would have definitely refused. So I asked it in a different way. If he had prescribed tablets, I would have taken them and died by suicide," the homemaker, aged around 40 years, said. Her husband works as a driver, and the couple has a minor daughter.

She told cops that she got Dr Kumar's mobile number online.