7 EXPLOSIVE Moments as Naresh Bhatt Is Pressed Over Wife’s Death

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: What were you trying to put into the trash can? [00:00:03] Naresh Bhatt: Dead body. Mamta's body. That is correct, yes. [00:00:06] Speaker 3: Accused wife killer Naresh Bhatt admits he dismembered his wife's body. [00:00:12] Speaker 1: Did you defile the dead body of your wife, Mamta Khan? [00:00:18] Mamta Khan: Yes. [00:00:19] Speaker 3: He fesses up to it all and gets roasted on scathing cross-exam. [00:00:25] Speaker 5: You're a liar. [00:00:27] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. Right. I never touched at all in my whole life. Never. Not only Mamta, not any family member, not at all. [00:00:35] Speaker 5: The only time you touched Mamta is when you chopped her up? [00:00:39] Speaker 3: This is Scandal, presented by Law & Crime. I'm Sierra Gillespie. Whoa. Okay, you never really know what you're going to expect when an accused murderer takes the stand. There's kind of a lot of ways that it can go, but in this instance, Naresh Bhatt denies he murdered his wife, Mamta Koffel Bhatt, but he does admit that he dismembered her body. [00:01:05] Speaker 1: Do you remember going to the home depot? [00:01:08] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:01:08] Speaker 1: Why did you go there? [00:01:11] Naresh Bhatt: To find anything to hide a body. [00:01:14] Speaker 3: And he admits he did it with major intent. [00:01:18] Speaker 1: You cut her body up and put it in the trash so that it would not be found. [00:01:24] Speaker 3: He has an answer for everything like why he didn't call police. [00:01:30] Speaker 1: Why didn't you, why didn't you call literally anyone else for help? [00:01:36] Naresh Bhatt: I did not take first initiation action. Later, I get really, really scared. [00:01:42] Speaker 3: By the way, this is the same man who told police this. [00:01:46] Speaker 6: I never lied. He never lied. [00:01:48] Speaker 1: He never lied. [00:01:49] Speaker 3: And told the jurors this. [00:01:51] Speaker 1: Lied to the police repeatedly over and over and over again. [00:01:56] Naresh Bhatt: You are right. [00:01:57] Speaker 3: During this testimony, jurors also got to hear from Mamta herself. [00:02:02] Mamta Khan: Hello. I need your help. But he's not giving me documents. I'm like, he's giving me torture. [00:02:09] Speaker 3: There were a lot of really tense and shocking moments during Naresh Bhatt's testimony. And we're going to go through the top moments and explain what we can expect ahead on Monday. So for a quick recap, Naresh Bhatt is accused of murdering his wife, Mamta Koffel Bhatt. She was last seen in July 2024 and has never been heard from since. Prosecutors say Naresh murdered Mamta and dismembered her body in their Manassas Park, Virginia home before disposing of the remains in garbage bins and trash compactors around the area. Naresh has pleaded not guilty to the charges, but this week he made a startling admission that he did dismember Mamta. He says he didn't murder her, but instead he found her already dead. [00:02:49] Speaker 1: What did you do when you had that sense and you noticed a different smell? [00:02:56] Naresh Bhatt: Then I just came back and then asked for Mamta. [00:03:00] Speaker 1: Where was, did you see her? [00:03:02] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:03:02] Speaker 1: Where was she? [00:03:04] Naresh Bhatt: On the floor. [00:03:06] Speaker 1: And can you describe what you saw when you saw Mamta on the floor? [00:03:16] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. On the floor facing north side and then she was lying with a vomit, stuff like that. [00:03:25] Speaker 1: Was she, what, was she lying? How was she lying? On her side, on her back, on the front? [00:03:31] Naresh Bhatt: How was she lying? Back tilted head. [00:03:34] Speaker 1: Back and what? [00:03:35] Naresh Bhatt: On the back, on back, head tilted. [00:03:37] Speaker 3: Naresh told jurors he found Mamta at about four o'clock in the morning on July 30th, 2024. He testified he found Mamta in the master bedroom with vomit around her mouth. [00:03:48] Naresh Bhatt: There were pills, blood, capsule, and then food particles. [00:03:58] Speaker 1: Mr. Bhatt, what is selfless? [00:04:03] Naresh Bhatt: That is a pesticide. [00:04:06] Speaker 1: And did you, did you see evidence in the vomit of selfless? [00:04:15] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:04:16] Speaker 3: Naresh says he immediately started life-saving measures. [00:04:20] Naresh Bhatt: I touch, try to like, hey, usually I don't, but like, you know, what, because I feel the smell and then those, and then turn the lights on. So I try to, what's going on, wake up, and then I see that, I clean, try to do the ABC stuff. [00:04:39] Speaker 1: What is ABC stuff? [00:04:41] Naresh Bhatt: Oh, airway, breath, circulation, clearance, something like that. I exactly do not remember those. I exactly do not remember how long I did that, maybe 30 seconds or a little over 30 seconds. Then I try to do the CPR. [00:04:58] Speaker 3: When that didn't work, Naresh made a startling move. [00:05:01] Speaker 1: Mr. Bhatt, obvious question. Why didn't you call 911? [00:05:07] Naresh Bhatt: That's the, I really, at that point, scared. I don't know why I did not. I tried to call. I really scared. I don't know why. Something take over me. I was really, really panicked. I don't know. I don't really, even like, it's been like two, over two years, I have completed more than 3,500 hours of meditation. Still, I don't have that answer. [00:05:36] Speaker 1: Why didn't you, why didn't you call literally anyone else for help? [00:05:42] Naresh Bhatt: I did not take first initiation action. Later, I get really, really scared. [00:05:50] Speaker 1: Are you concerned about how it would look? [00:05:56] Naresh Bhatt: I'm concerned about everything. I cannot explain what I was concerned about. Everything around the world. [00:06:03] Speaker 1: Concerned about your job? [00:06:04] Naresh Bhatt: Everything. Not only the job. Job doesn't, that doesn't come on my mind. Everything. [00:06:11] Speaker 1: Are you afraid that you're going to be blamed for driving her to suicide? [00:06:17] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:06:21] Speaker 1: Are you afraid that you're going to be blamed for not taking serious how? [00:06:26] Naresh Bhatt: 100% yes. [00:06:27] Speaker 3: And then, he took his daughter to the babysitter's. [00:06:31] Speaker 1: I want to put over there and what yourself? Finish myself. Is that what it? What do you mean when you say you want to? [00:06:39] Naresh Bhatt: Kill myself. [00:06:40] Speaker 1: You want to clean yourself? [00:06:41] Naresh Bhatt: Not clean, kill myself. I mean, suicide myself. [00:06:44] Speaker 3: But Naresh didn't kill himself. Instead, he says he decided to dismember Manta's body. And that began with a shopping trip. [00:06:53] Speaker 1: Do you remember going to the Home Depot? [00:06:56] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:06:58] Speaker 1: Why did you go there? [00:06:59] Naresh Bhatt: To find anything, like, to hide or, like, anything to go to the Potomac. [00:07:06] Speaker 1: To do what? [00:07:07] Naresh Bhatt: To find anything to hide a body. [00:07:10] Speaker 1: So, on that day, what did you buy? [00:07:13] Naresh Bhatt: Gloves. One pair of gloves. [00:07:15] Speaker 1: Why did you buy gloves? [00:07:16] Naresh Bhatt: I have no idea why I buy that. [00:07:18] Speaker 1: You were looking for something useful to help you get rid of Mamta Khakri's body, right? [00:07:24] Naresh Bhatt: That is correct, yes. [00:07:25] Speaker 3: When he got home, Naresh says he began to dismember Mamta's body. [00:07:29] Speaker 1: At some point, did you start to cut the body of Mamta Khakri? [00:07:37] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:07:39] Speaker 1: And what did you, what do you remember about that? [00:07:46] Naresh Bhatt: Just make a smaller size so that it fit on the can. [00:07:52] Speaker 1: Do you remember the details of how you did that? [00:07:58] Naresh Bhatt: Not all. Some of, yes. Some of, no. [00:08:02] Speaker 1: What do you remember? Tell the jury what you do remember. [00:08:08] Naresh Bhatt: I was trying to leg apart. [00:08:13] Speaker 1: You were trying to do what? [00:08:14] Naresh Bhatt: Lower body apart. [00:08:16] Speaker 1: Lower body apart. Lower her body apart? [00:08:19] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:08:20] Speaker 1: What do you mean by lower? [00:08:22] Naresh Bhatt: Like separate the legs from the body. [00:08:25] Speaker 1: Why did you stop? [00:08:29] Naresh Bhatt: Mentally and physically, I was powerless. I was unable to do that. [00:08:34] Speaker 3: When he picked his daughter up from the babysitter, Naresh says he blamed Mamta for all this. [00:08:41] Speaker 1: You were talking to him? Yes. What were you talking to him about? [00:08:46] Naresh Bhatt: Just what happened, blaming Mamta. [00:08:49] Speaker 1: You were blaming Mamta. [00:08:50] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:08:52] Speaker 1: Why were you blaming her? [00:08:55] Naresh Bhatt: Why, what you did, whatever she did, you know, like, you know, she did not do good. That's why we were blaming, I was blaming, talking to him and then crying and then blaming, we used to Mamta, yes. [00:09:09] Speaker 3: That night, he says he threw Mamta's body away in the trash outside of their home. [00:09:17] Speaker 1: Um, you cut her body up and put it in the trash so that it would not be found. [00:09:24] Speaker 3: Yes. Noorash did, however, throw away Mamta's clothes and personal documents in dumpsters or trash compactors. He says he didn't want to keep the memories, but he made another startling move, too. [00:09:37] Speaker 1: What did you just put, what did you just throw on the ground there? [00:09:42] Naresh Bhatt: I don't exactly recall, but that is something useful, so somebody can take it and then useful. Not useful, I throw inside the trash and then that is something useful. I do not exactly remember what it is. [00:09:56] Speaker 1: I believe it is knife. Okay, so something that someone could use. Yes. What do you mean by useful? [00:10:01] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:10:03] Speaker 3: Noorash explains away some of his incriminating searches during his testimony, too. For instance, when he Googled adultery, he says he was looking up what that word meant after he heard about it on the news. He claims he searched, quote, can I donate my baby because of an odd translation. He really meant to ask if his daughter could temporarily stay with a friend. Okay, but then, when he asked for a Colombian girl to be a mail order bride, that was just allegedly a joke. [00:10:30] Naresh Bhatt: Nothing serious, the topic come from the Miss World. [00:10:34] Speaker 1: From the Miss World pageant? [00:10:35] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:10:36] Speaker 1: You say, how long does it take to come Colombian girl for me, still in the border? [00:10:42] Naresh Bhatt: Yeah, I just keep continuation again. [00:10:44] Speaker 1: Okay, and you've added, like, is she still at the border in there? [00:10:47] Naresh Bhatt: Somehow, he mentioned me, like, something like, you know, I do not exactly recall, but, yeah, he's crossing border or coming, like, you know, girl from Colombia, stuff like that. [00:10:58] Speaker 1: And so he says, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, we haven't introduced her to you because we heard that your wife might be here and that you're back with her home. So we better said that when her wife isn't here, we'll introduce her to you. [00:11:11] Naresh Bhatt: Over here, he is mean to, like, you know, some sort of stuff, like, you know, your wife going to get mad. Your wife is still there. We don't know, like, we don't know, like, it's your wife or not, something like that. But, like, you know, he was worried about if he's... Objection. [00:11:27] Speaker 1: Astained. Okay, so, yeah, you can't say what someone else says. [00:11:31] Naresh Bhatt: Oh, okay. [00:11:32] Speaker 1: You can only, you can only answer the question about this. [00:11:34] Naresh Bhatt: Question one more time, please. [00:11:35] Speaker 1: So, a day later in the morning, you say, we are going divorce. My wife is here temporarily because we are working on divorcing court and she is paying rent to stay here. Is any of that true when you're saying that to him? [00:11:54] Naresh Bhatt: No, it is just trying to make jealous to my wife. [00:11:58] Speaker 1: Okay, and you think at this point that she's going to see this? [00:12:02] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:12:03] Speaker 1: Did you become aware later whether she did see it? [00:12:07] Naresh Bhatt: She did see it and then she responded to me. 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Go to Law & Crime Plus dot com and subscribe today. While on the stand, Naresh Bhatt also admitted over and over again that he lied. [00:13:14] Speaker 1: You lied to the police repeatedly, over and over and over again. [00:13:19] Naresh Bhatt: You are right. [00:13:20] Speaker 1: And again, you were worried about getting caught? [00:13:24] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:13:25] Speaker 1: You were worried about that they would find out what you had done to her body? [00:13:29] Naresh Bhatt: That is correct. [00:13:31] Speaker 1: You lied to the media about this? [00:13:34] Naresh Bhatt: That is correct. [00:13:35] Speaker 1: Over and over, every time you talked to the media, you lied to them about this? [00:13:40] Naresh Bhatt: That is correct. I'm going to say, like, I keep my secret or I did not disclose what I have done. It's a lie. Yes. [00:13:47] Speaker 1: And you let everyone believe that she may be just missing. [00:13:56] Naresh Bhatt: Except myself. [00:13:58] Speaker 1: And that was something you stuck with all the way through the three weeks after Mamta died. And you did that to her body. You let everyone believe. [00:14:14] Naresh Bhatt: You're right. [00:14:15] Speaker 1: And you were worried about yourself, right? [00:14:18] Naresh Bhatt: That is correct. [00:14:19] Speaker 3: Here's how the direct examination ends. [00:14:22] Speaker 1: Would you defile the dead body of your wife, Mamta Kostak? [00:14:28] Mamta Khan: Yes. [00:14:30] Speaker 1: Would you conceal the dead body of your wife, Mamta Kostak? [00:14:37] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:14:38] Speaker 1: Would you kill your wife, Mamta Kostak? [00:14:41] Naresh Bhatt: No, not even imagination. [00:14:44] Speaker 1: That's all the questions I have. [00:14:45] Speaker 3: And this is how Cross begins. [00:14:49] Speaker 5: Ready? Yes. You're a liar. Yes. You lied. [00:14:57] Mamta Khan: Order. Not doing that. [00:15:02] Speaker 5: I want to identify everybody that you lied to. And if I forget somebody, tell us. You lied to Gita Koffle. Right? [00:15:13] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:15:14] Speaker 5: You lied to her, to Mamta's brother, Mahesh. [00:15:18] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:15:19] Speaker ?: Yes. [00:15:20] Speaker 5: That's for starters, who you lied to. [00:15:27] Naresh Bhatt: Would you mind to repeat that one more time? [00:15:29] Speaker 5: I'll ask a different question. You're an admitted liar to this entire jury. Everybody in this room knows now that you are a liar. [00:15:39] Naresh Bhatt: That is the only one thing I lied. That is the only one thing I lied. [00:15:42] Speaker 5: What's the one thing you lied about? [00:15:48] Naresh Bhatt: About that case at that time. [00:15:51] Speaker 5: About the Mamta case. That's the case you lied about? Right? Didn't you say to the police that you never lie? Those are your words. You never lie. [00:16:12] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:16:12] Speaker 5: So the whole world now knows you're a liar in the United States, Nepal, and in this courtroom. [00:16:19] Speaker 6: Prosecutors point out, Naresh has everything on the line. [00:16:31] Speaker 5: You have an interest in the outcome of this trial, correct? [00:16:39] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:16:40] Speaker 5: You have a lot on the line. Would you agree with me on that? [00:16:43] Speaker 6: Could you repeat that one more time? [00:16:44] Speaker 5: You, sir, have a lot on the line right now. [00:16:54] Speaker 6: Could you clarify? You could go to prison if the jury finds you guilty, correct? [00:17:06] Naresh Bhatt: Correct. [00:17:07] Speaker 6: So you have to convince 12 people that you didn't do this, right? [00:17:12] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:17:13] Speaker 3: During this cross, Prosecutor's suite gets pretty salty. [00:17:17] Speaker 5: Can you read it out loud? What happened? Read it to the microphone. [00:17:23] Speaker 1: I'm sorry. [00:17:24] Speaker 5: The jury can't hear. [00:17:25] Speaker 1: He's getting a little close to my client in terms of... [00:17:27] Speaker 5: Read it to the microphone. [00:17:29] Speaker 3: He asked Naresh to recount when he found Mamta's body. [00:17:33] Speaker 5: You're testifying that Mamta is lying at the foot of the bed, right? [00:17:38] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:17:39] Speaker 5: So when you first walked in, you didn't see her laying there? [00:17:43] Naresh Bhatt: I did not pay attention. [00:17:45] Speaker 5: You just saw a huge body on the floor, bleeding, vomiting, and didn't pay any attention to it? [00:17:53] Naresh Bhatt: It was not on the way, it was on the side. Not on my way. [00:17:56] Speaker 5: It's in your eyesight, right? [00:17:59] Naresh Bhatt: On the side. [00:18:00] Speaker 5: To the side of your eye. You couldn't see your dead wife on the ground? [00:18:05] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. Yes. [00:18:09] Speaker 3: Prosecutor's pressure Naresh on the pesticide that Mamta allegedly ingested. [00:18:13] Speaker 5: Who bought the cell phone and put it in your house? [00:18:18] Naresh Bhatt: I exactly don't know. It's supposed to be Mamta. [00:18:22] Speaker 5: Mamta would have bought this poison? [00:18:24] Naresh Bhatt: Because it doesn't... Here, it come from back home. Everything come from back home, she does. [00:18:31] Speaker 5: Meaning this was brought from Nepal? [00:18:33] Naresh Bhatt: That is correct. [00:18:35] Speaker 5: Did you bring this from Nepal? [00:18:37] Naresh Bhatt: No. [00:18:38] Speaker 5: So Mamta traveled internationally from Nepal to the United States with poison? [00:18:44] Naresh Bhatt: I did not say that. [00:18:45] Speaker 5: According to you, you did chest compressions. [00:18:49] Naresh Bhatt: CPR. Yes. [00:18:50] Speaker 5: CPR. You did mouth-to-mouth? [00:18:52] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:18:53] Speaker 5: Knowing that she had poison? [00:18:55] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:18:56] Speaker 5: You're putting your mouth on her ingested poison mouth? [00:19:00] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. Okay. [00:19:02] Speaker 5: And on July 29th, only two people could have put poison in Mamta. Would you agree with me on that? [00:19:15] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:19:16] Speaker 5: It was either Mamta poisoned herself. Agree with me on that? [00:19:22] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:19:22] Speaker 5: Or, the more obvious one, you poisoned her. [00:19:26] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:19:29] Speaker 5: And you're saying you did not poison her? [00:19:32] Naresh Bhatt: Never. [00:19:33] Speaker 5: Never? [00:19:34] Naresh Bhatt: Never. [00:19:35] Speaker 5: You would never hurt her? [00:19:39] Naresh Bhatt: Never. [00:19:41] Speaker 5: Not even withdrawn. Again, and I want to be crystal clear. You have never hurt Mamta ever, physically? [00:19:56] Naresh Bhatt: Never. [00:19:58] Speaker 5: You're telling the truth on that one? [00:20:03] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:20:05] Speaker 3: Prosecutors also questioned Naresh about the alleged abuse of Mamta. [00:20:09] Speaker 5: Again, it's even clearer that she has blood on her hands, correct? [00:20:15] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:20:16] Speaker 5: And her nose. [00:20:17] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:20:18] Speaker 5: And a bruise to her right eye. [00:20:20] Naresh Bhatt: Looks like yes. [00:20:22] Speaker 5: You're saying you did not do this to her? [00:20:25] Naresh Bhatt: If I have to do, like, why does she have to send the picture to me? I wasn't there. [00:20:29] Speaker 5: As proof of domestic violence. [00:20:34] Naresh Bhatt: It's not right. [00:20:36] Speaker 5: It's not right. [00:20:37] Naresh Bhatt: No, picture is right. Mamta's lying? Picture is right. But, like, I did, is not right. I never touched, uh, uh, at all in my whole life. Never. So, you... Not only Mamta, not any family member, not at all. [00:20:49] Speaker 5: The only time you touched Mamta is when you chopped her up? [00:20:53] Naresh Bhatt: That was after Mamta left. [00:20:55] Speaker 5: The only time you touched Mamta is when you're stuffing her into a trash can? That's the only times you touched her? [00:21:02] Naresh Bhatt: I touched means, like, physically touched means, like, it's whole life we touched. That doesn't mean, like, I beat her or, you know, something like that. [00:21:10] Speaker 5: Then what's this photograph? [00:21:13] Naresh Bhatt: Doesn't mean necessarily I beat her. [00:21:16] Speaker 5: Isn't this Mamta saying to you and to all of us, you did this to her? [00:21:21] Naresh Bhatt: I did not. [00:21:21] Speaker 5: She also shared it with her family? Is she misleading them to think that you're some horrific monster? What's happening to your wife's right eye? [00:21:34] Naresh Bhatt: Uh, rattles for akamuni. [00:21:36] Speaker 6: There is a redness underneath the eye. [00:21:38] Speaker 7: It's a bruise, right? [00:21:40] Speaker 6: Bruising. [00:21:41] Speaker 7: Dags. [00:21:41] Naresh Bhatt: Dags, yeah. Dags. [00:21:43] Speaker 6: Bruise, yes. [00:21:44] Speaker 5: You did that, right? [00:21:45] Naresh Bhatt: Never. [00:21:46] Speaker 3: Prosecutors then ask Naresh about the love he says he had for Mamta. [00:21:51] Speaker 5: So she acknowledged you in a loving way? [00:21:56] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:21:57] Speaker 5: Even during the quarreling. She loved you. Always. [00:22:01] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:22:05] Speaker 5: You stopped loving her, right? [00:22:08] Naresh Bhatt: The same way. I also love her. [00:22:13] Speaker 5: I think you show love differently than how Mamta shows it. [00:22:17] Speaker 6: I don't think so. Where are you sitting right now, sir? [00:22:34] Naresh Bhatt: I don't know what do you mean. On chair? [00:22:37] Speaker 6: You're alive, aren't you? [00:22:41] Naresh Bhatt: Oh, yes. [00:22:42] Speaker 5: You're in one whole piece, aren't you? [00:22:45] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:22:46] Speaker 5: But the love that you show for your baby's mother, your wife, was to dismember her? That's the kind of love you offer? [00:22:57] Naresh Bhatt: That's not the love. [00:22:59] Speaker 5: I know that's not love. I'm asking, is that the love you give to Mamta? [00:23:12] Speaker 6: Please repeat your question. [00:23:15] Speaker 5: Not only did you cut her up, and we're talking about love. [00:23:31] Speaker 6: You stuffed her into a trash can. I accepted that. [00:23:45] Speaker 5: Say that again, sir? [00:23:48] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:23:49] Speaker 5: But you didn't just stuff her into a trash can. You chopped her up to make her fit. [00:24:03] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:24:06] Speaker 6: That's not love. [00:24:07] Speaker ?: No. [00:24:10] Speaker 5: That's a crime. [00:24:12] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:24:14] Speaker 5: The worst kind. Almost the worst kind. You can commit against your wife. [00:24:19] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:24:20] Speaker 5: Would you agree with me that murder is worse? [00:24:24] Naresh Bhatt: I'm not angry with you. [00:24:26] Speaker 5: You don't agree with me? Or you do? [00:24:30] Naresh Bhatt: Hold on. I don't understand. [00:24:32] Speaker 5: You concealed her body. [00:24:34] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:24:35] Speaker 5: You admit that's a crime. [00:24:38] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:24:39] Speaker 5: And you admit you committed it. [00:24:44] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:24:45] Speaker 5: There's no question you committed the crime of concealing a dead body. [00:24:53] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:24:54] Speaker 5: Let's talk about the second crime you're charged with, defiling a dead body. That's a crime you committed? [00:25:00] Speaker 6: Yes. So we're clear. [00:25:10] Speaker 5: You're guilty of defiling a dead body. There's a jury. [00:25:18] Speaker 6: But you're charged with murder. Yes. But you're also charged with murder, right? [00:25:27] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:25:29] Speaker 6: That is the worst crime that can be committed against a person. And you have been thinking about killing Mamda for months. [00:25:50] Naresh Bhatt: I never think about that. Never, ever. [00:25:55] Speaker 5: You typed it out, sir. It's in your Google searches. [00:26:00] Speaker 6: I never did that. [00:26:06] Speaker 3: On cross, Naresh is also asked about the knives that he reportedly used to dismember Mamda and that he tried to donate. [00:26:15] Speaker 5: You used those knives to carve up Mamda, correct? [00:26:20] Naresh Bhatt: Some way, yes. [00:26:21] Speaker 5: In some way? [00:26:23] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:26:26] Speaker 5: After you used those knives on Mamda, you discarded them. You threw them out. [00:26:33] Naresh Bhatt: I put somewhere at the donation. [00:26:39] Speaker 5: The donation bin in Loudoun County? [00:26:42] Naresh Bhatt: No, at the baby place. [00:26:45] Speaker 5: Got it. At the babysitter's trash. [00:26:52] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:26:52] Speaker 5: You said those knives could be reused. That's why you didn't put them in the trash. You put it outside the trash. [00:26:58] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:27:00] Speaker 5: Did you wash these knives? [00:27:04] Naresh Bhatt: I don't remember. [00:27:05] Speaker 3: And then there were questions about the cleanup. [00:27:08] Speaker 5: There was a lot of blood pouring out of Mamda's body, right? [00:27:15] Speaker 7: When you chopped off her limbs, blood is pouring out. Not like a normal person. [00:27:38] Speaker 5: Right. Like a dead person. Blood is pouring out of her body. [00:27:42] Speaker 7: Cross ends with a dramatic series of questions. [00:27:56] Speaker 5: From July 29, 2024, up until the date that you were arrested, August 22, 2024, you lied to everybody during that period of time about where Mamda is, correct? [00:28:18] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:28:19] Speaker 5: You want us, not us. You want the jury to believe that you're telling the truth today? [00:28:41] Naresh Bhatt: Of course. [00:28:42] Speaker 5: And you want them to believe you today. And if they do, you get a huge benefit, right? [00:28:52] Naresh Bhatt: I don't know about the benefit. [00:28:56] Speaker 5: You beat the case if the jury believes you, correct? [00:29:06] Naresh Bhatt: I'm 100% honestly. I put everything in front of everybody. [00:29:11] Speaker 5: Today? [00:29:13] Naresh Bhatt: Yes. [00:29:13] Speaker 5: But not previously. [00:29:16] Naresh Bhatt: That is correct. [00:29:18] Speaker 5: And you're telling the truth today only to beat these charges, right? [00:29:25] Naresh Bhatt: Whatever I did, I accepted that 100%. Whatever I haven't done, I never accepted. I never done. [00:29:36] Speaker 5: You didn't find Mamda dead, right? Sure. You killed her. [00:29:50] Naresh Bhatt: Never. [00:29:51] Speaker 5: You did. [00:29:52] Speaker ?: No. [00:29:55] Speaker 5: The evidence that we presented shows that you killed her. Would you agree with that? [00:30:01] Naresh Bhatt: No, that's your job. You're presenting. So, no. [00:30:04] Speaker 5: It's a difficult job, isn't it? [00:30:07] Naresh Bhatt: I don't know. [00:30:12] Speaker 5: You've been planning to kill Mamda for months, right? Never. [00:30:15] Speaker 3: The redirect of Naresh Bhatt is set for Monday, and soon to follow, closing arguments and deliberation. So what's a jury going to believe? We'll have to wait and see, because that is where today's episode of Scandal leaves us for now. Thanks for watching. I'm your host, Sierra Gillespie, and I'll see you next time. [00:30:36] Speaker ?: We'll be right back.