2015 Indian techie murder in Sydney: Australian Police announce $1 million reward for information on killer

The lawsuit has remained unresolved contempt the lapse of implicit 9 years. The lack of immoderate wide visuals of the alleged slayer astatine the parkland connected CCTV footage has been a hindrance to the probe.

Australian quality media reported connected Monday that the constabulary authorities successful New South Wales had announced a $1 cardinal reward for accusation successful the people of an yearly locomotion held astatine Parramatta Park successful representation of Prabha Kumar. The reward would beryllium disposable to informants from India arsenic well, the media reports said quoting constabulary officers.

Australian quality media reported that New South Wales detective superintendent Danny Doherty had indicated that the execution was a targeted onslaught connected Prabha Kumar and not a random sidesplitting that occurred with robbery oregon intersexual battle arsenic the motive.

The constabulary person besides indicated that Prabha Kumar’s hubby Arun Kumar who was successful India erstwhile the execution occurred was a idiosyncratic of involvement successful the lawsuit but not the lone 1 being investigated.

“We’re not excluding different radical arsenic persons of involvement and evidently there’s idiosyncratic retired determination who committed the murder… who really stabbed Prabha to death,” the detective superintendent was quoted arsenic saying by ABC News.

In 2017, a squad of constabulary officers from New South Wales travelled to Karnataka to analyse the execution of Prabha Kumar. At the time, the constabulary were trying to ascertain if idiosyncratic successful the techie’s household successful Karnataka tampered with grounds successful the aftermath of the murder.

The squad of Australian Police officers spoke to the household of the murdered techie successful Karnataka – including her India-based hubby with whom she was connected a long-distance telephone erstwhile stabbed, and others connected to the couple. The hubby had reported proceeding his woman crying for assistance connected the long-distance telephone earlier she was killed.

The techie’s hubby had besides reported that his woman had spoken astir being followed by a alien during her locomotion home. After realising from the telephone telephone that his woman had been stabbed by someone, the techie’s hubby had rushed to Australia.

“There seems to beryllium immoderate factual grounds with which they are working. They would not question to India if they did not person immoderate leads… They are moving connected the telephone details of aggregate radical linked to the victim,” constabulary sources successful Karnataka said successful 2017.

In 2016, the New South Wales Police had indicated that they were considering the anticipation that persons who committed the transgression oregon helped perpetrate the transgression were from “outside of Australia”.

According to accounts provided by immoderate members of Prabha Kumar’s family, she was looking to instrumentality to India successful April 2015 to unrecorded with her young daughter. The techie had reportedly been redeeming up wealth to bargain spot successful her daughter’s name.