{"id":13999,"date":"2025-07-22T18:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13999\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:10:12","slug":"police-narrow-in-on-potential-motive-behind-10-year-old-unsolved-murder-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13999\/","title":{"rendered":"Police narrow in on ‘potential motive’ behind 10-year-old unsolved murder in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"

NSW Police have narrowed in on a potential motive behind the 10-year-old unsolved suspected targeting killing of a mother-of-one.<\/p>\n

Prahba Kumar was walking through Parramatta Park in Western Sydney in March 2015 when she was stabbed to death.<\/p>\n

Police believe she had been speaking to her husband, Arun Kumar, on the phone while he was in India when she was attacked.<\/p>\n

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Prahba Kumar was walking through Parramatta Park in Western Sydney in March 2015 when she was stabbed to death. (A Current Affair)<\/p>\n

Arun was the mourning husband in the wake of her death.<\/p>\n

“I want whoever killed my gorgeous wife to be brought to justice,” he said in 2015. \ufeff<\/p>\n

It later emerged \ufeffhe admitted to police that he had a girlfriend at the time.<\/p>\n

NSW Police Homicide Squad Detective Superintendent Joe Doueihi\ufeff said there was evidence obtained during the investigation that there were “a number of inconsistencies and discrepancies in his version of events that created suspicion”.<\/p>\n

“In addition, we see a potential motive for him,” he said. \ufeff<\/p>\n

“However, we haven’t reached that threshold for any criminal proceedings.”<\/p>\n

Doueihi\ufeff said police have been working closely with the Indian authorities and government through the attorney-general.<\/p>\n

Last year, \ufeffNSW Police announced a $1 million reward for information about her death. \ufeff<\/p>\n

A two-day inquest this week heard Arun is still a person of interest in his wife’s murder.<\/p>\n

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Police believe Prahba had been speaking to her husband on the phone while he was in India when she was attacked. (A Current Affair)<\/p>\n

Counsel assisting Jillian Caldwell said Arun had just renewed Prahba’s life insurance and changed the PIN code on her bank account only an hour before her stabbing.<\/p>\n

Prabha’s sister and niece were in court today while her brother watched from India.<\/p>\n

“Why would anybody want to kill such a beautiful person, a beautiful soul, you know, so that’s something that we really not able to understand,” her brother said. \ufeff<\/p>\n

Deputy State Coroner David O’Neil said there were six possible explanations for her killing, but the most likely was that it was targeted.<\/p>\n

Doueihi\ufeff said the suspected targeting killing is the focus of the investigation.<\/p>\n

“Through the course of the investigation, we were able to rule out other potential motives,” he said. \ufeff<\/p>\n

“It appears from all the evidence collected that this was a targeted killing.” \ufeff<\/p>\n

Arun was tracked down in India, where he promised to sit down for an interview with Nine.<\/p>\n

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Arun was the mourning husband in the wake of her death. (A Current Affair)<\/p>\n

“The police say that somebody in India organised her murder. Do you think that’s the case?” Nine’s Sydney crime editor Emma Partridge asked Arun.<\/p>\n

“That is bullshit. That is not right,” he replied. \ufeff<\/p>\n

Arun has never been charged in relation to his wife’s death, and the person who carried out the attack has never been identified.<\/p>\n

“This has been a massive investigation,” \ufeffDoueihi\ufeff said.<\/p>\n

“It’s spanned over 10 years and I can tell you that the police have spoken to more than a thousand people and have obtained hundreds of statements.” \ufeff<\/p>\n

The case has now been referred to the Unsolved Homicide Team.<\/p>\n

“Even though it’s ten years old and it’s just been finalised at inquest, the case remains open,” \ufeffDoueihi\ufeff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NSW Police have narrowed in on a potential motive behind the 10-year-old unsolved suspected targeting killing of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-13999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}