The boy told them that Indushekhar did not allow him to speak directly to relatives. Instead, he handed him the phones and made him record voice messages.
Because he was a familiar person and had ties with the family, police said the child trusted Indushekhar.
Police said the boy told them that alleged killer Indushekhar dictated what he should say and made him record voice messages using mobile phones belonging to his parents and others. His father went missing on a Saturday morning, and his mother was nowhere to be found by afternoon, according to the boy’s statement. The boy told them that Indushekhar did not allow him to speak directly to relatives. “He told me to say they were going on a North India tour for three more months and no one should bother them,” police quoted the boy as having said.
Indushekhar came to pick him up that evening, saying they would go on a pilgrimage.
BENGALURU: For five days after his parents went missing, the 10-year-old son of the murdered couple Shankar and Nalini was made to tell relatives and family friends that they were away on a pilgrimage and later on a three-month North India tour.