Mangaluru, Aug 1: The investigations in software engineer Prabha Shetty murder case in Australia is expected to be widened to India with detectives from Strike Force Marcoala, formed by State Crime Command's Homicide Squad, due to travel to her home town near Mangaluru, amid community plans to honour the slain woman with a service close to her birthday.
41-year-old Prabha, who was stabbed to death in Australia in March this year, was a native of Nandagokula village near Kalladka in Bantwal taluk.
"Prahba's death has affected a lot of people, including her family in India. These people need closure and we are reliant on the publics' help to allow us to give them that," Sim said.
A plaque bearing victim’s name will be unveiled during her birthday on November 22. "We remain in close contact with Prabha's family and we have invited them to attend the memorial event. We will also assist in helping the family to make the trip to Sydney from India," Sim said.
Prabha was stabbed to death in Parramatta park in Westmead while she was on the phone with her husband Arun Kumar, who works in Bengaluru.
Australian police on Friday released a new CCTV footage hoping to find the killer of the woman. Sydney police is now looking to speak to a person who was seen in new CCTV footage walking nearby through Parramatta Golf Course near Jubilee Lane on the night of her murder.
"The person in the footage is the one person we have not been able to identify so far, after months of exhaustive inquiry," Sim said. Sim said officers recently discovered the footage as they again canvassed the area around where the killing took place.
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