New Delhi: WhatsApp messages, purportedly sent by Pallavi, the prime accused in the murder of retired Karnataka DGP Om Prakash, showed that she claimed to have been living under constant surveillance and threats. The messages, accessed by India Today, were reportedly sent to a group which included journalists. They revealed that Pallavi felt trapped and persecuted months before she allegedly stabbed the former Director General of Police to death.
“Poisoning is just a term for you to read. It is very very painful,” she stated, demanding a proper investigation. “My daughter is suffering badly now. I can’t sit quietly.” She claimed the prolonged abuse had affected her health. “Years of poisoning would have harmed kidneys also. Please get those reports and file (them). I have been doing home detox with things like ghee and nimbu (lemon),” she wrote, further suggesting that cooks at their home be interrogated to reveal the truth.
In one of the messages, she also recounted a disturbing encounter: “Yesterday while walking on the road, one person who had left the van door open and was moving the van with open door released some powder from the van. Pallavi, in the messages, feared for her and her daughter’s lives. “If anything happens to my daughter and me, however natural or accidental it might look, my husband will be responsible for this. I will have to suffer quietly.
In another message, Pallavi also pleaded for help from national security officials. “At least bring it to the notice of Ajit Doval. From where is he getting these weapons and money? It is more dangerous than the Ranya Rao case,” she wrote, referring to a high-profile smuggling case involving a Kannada actor. Pallavi added, “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely more if it is additionally accompanied by money power. Money makes everything so easy.”
She asked that the authorities seize a revolver allegedly in Om Prakash’s possession and preserve her messages before “any hacking is done or it disappears.” In another message, she wrote, “Please save this message.” She also requested the current DGP for temporary accommodation for herself. “If possible, let the DGP give me accommodation in Ashok Nagar Quarters temporarily. There things might be comparatively safer. I don’t know how much that will work out. But at the moment, that seems to be the best bet.”