Bengaluru, 21 July 

The Bengaluru Police have written to an AI tool company seeking details of chat history after the investigation into the recent triple murder case revealed that the prime accused used the assistance of an AI chatbot to execute the murders, which he had been planning for nearly six months, officials said on Tuesday.

The murders were reported on 22 June this year at an apartment in Seegehalli, where Somasundar, 52, his wife Muthulaxmi, 48, and their younger daughter Supriya, 19, were found stabbed to death.

The deceased couple's elder daughter Shwetha, 24, and her live-in partner Kenneth, 25, who fled thespot after committing the crime, were arrested separately from Puducherry days later, police said. The investigation revealed that the alleged motive behind the murders appeared to be financial disputes and strained family relations, they said.

While Kenneth and Shwetha allegedly acted in tandem, the entire planning and execution of the murders were carried out by Kenneth, who admitted during interrogation that he consulted an AI chatbot at every stage throughout the six months of planning the murders, including seeking information on how to kill, dispose of bodies,removing bloodstains, and whether the furnace built by him for the planned cloud kitchen business here could be repurposed to incinerate the bodies, a senior police officer said.

The officer said investigators have written to the parent AI company seeking digital evidence to corroborate his version.