Murder of Vandana Das: Sandeep sent video to HM on fateful day, district crime branch takes over investigation

KOTTAYAM: The district crime branch has taken over the investigation in the murder case of Dr Vandana Das. Kollam rural SP M M Jose is in charge of the investigation. The investigation was handed over to the district crime branch following the discrepancies in the FIR. The investigation team has decided to take the accused into custody.

Meantime, the police is examining the phone of the accused. The video taken by Sandeep just before the attack had surfaced earlier. However, it is not clear to whom he had sent this. It is hinted that after sending the video on WhatsApp, he had deleted it.

The reports that came said no information was obtained from his phone over the use of drugs. Sandeep had sent another video to the headmistress of the school on the morning of the incident. The video showed him saying that someone was trying to kill him. After sending the video, he called the police saying that he is in trouble and asked them to rescue him.

Sandeep stabbed house surgeon Vandana Das of Kottarakkara Taluk Hospital to death on Wednesday early morning. Sandeep, who was brought to the hospital by the police to dress his wounds on his leg, stabbed the doctor to death with the surgical scissors.