Rohan Bhat, an Indian software engineer who just returned to his home country from the USA, has been arrested for murd£ring his parents.
HAL police arrested Rohan, 33, on Wednesday, Feb. 11, on charges of stabbing his parents, former merchant navy captain Naveen Chandra and dentist mother Shyamala, to de@th inside their villa in Vignan Nagar, near HAL Township.
The incident came to light around 7.30am when neighbours, on hearing the commotion, rushed to the villa. The couple was immediately moved to Manipal Hospital on Old Airport Road but was declared d£ad on arrival.
Later, based on a complaint filed by Dr Madhavi Nair, a neighbour, police nabbed Rohan.
“Though circumstantial evidence points to Rohan’s involvement in the murd£r, what is evading clarity is the exact motive behind the murd£r,” a police officer said.
Based on a preliminary assessment, a police officer said Rohan could be suffering from schizophrenia, a serious mental health condition characterised by disorganised thinking or behaviour.
“Rohan makes contradictory statements every now and then. Once, he claims his father refused to give him Rs 4 lakh for his new project. Then, he changes it, saying the fight broke out over changing his mobile number from the family package. Also, he was undergoing mood swings. So, we decided to question him once his younger sister arrives from the US,” the police officer added.
Police discovered that Naveen and Shyamala hailed from Mangaluru. A merchant navy captain, Naveen served in many parts of the country: Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. They moved to Bengaluru around six years back. Shyamala worked at Chinmaya Hospital in Indiranagar. Also, she ran a small clinic in her villa, the sources said.
Rohan completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in America.
“A software engineer, Rohan worked with different companies before returning to Bengaluru in 2023. He told his parents that he was freelancing for different tech firms. However, Rohan had differences with Naveen, but he loved his mother. Saying he wanted to work in solitude, he lived in a single-bedroom rented house in Varthur,” an investigating officer said.
