‘He said we were going on a trip’: 11-year-old survivor recounts days with accused after Bengaluru family murder

What is even more chilling is that the number of victims in the case could rise to eight as the accused allegedly planned to murder the boy. | Image to illustrate | Photo credit: Favor_of_God

“Whenever I asked about my parents, he (Indushekar) diverted the subject and told me that we were going on a trip. He kept throwing big plastic bags out of the car and when I asked him about it, he said he was disposing of garbage,” said an 11-year-old boy who was arrested by the police for Indushekar, the main accused in the Rajajinagar murder case.

“When I tried to open the trunk of the car to check what he was doing, he scolded me for getting out of the car,” he said. The plastic bags likely contained the bodies of the boy’s parents, police said.

The boy told the media that after dinner at Indushekar’s house in Rajajinagar on October 31, the accused forced his family to stay back even though they were planning to leave. The murders were said to have been carried out that night.

The FIR also states that the boy’s family informed their landlords to keep the gate of their house open as they would be returning late. However, they never returned.

Bodies in the trunk, boy in the car

The accused is suspected of driving the car with the boy inside and the bodies in the trunk.

What is even more chilling is that the number of victims in the case could rise to eight as the accused allegedly planned to murder the boy. Bengaluru City Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh said police suspected “the next target was a boy” but Indushekar was apprehended before he could commit the crime.

The boy said the accused told him he was going on a trip and first took him to the Kempegowda International Airport. They then traveled to Kukke Subrahmanya, Dharmasthala and later Sringeri. Meanwhile, the accused were allegedly disposing of the “plastic bags”.

“I even asked him where atthe (Indushekar’s wife) was, to which he replied that they had gone on an all-India trip,” he said.

Published – 06 Nov 2026 21:27 IST