About this transcript: This is a full AI-generated transcript of Tara During his cross-examination , Prosecutor Matthew Dweet attacked Naresh Bhatt’s credibility and from And Then They Were Gone, published November 7, 2026. The transcript contains 2,459 words with timestamps and was generated using Whisper AI.
"i've definitely levied my share of criticism against prosecutor matthew sweet mainly because of how the tim hickerson trial went down last year but also because of the pacing and some of the things with this trial the naresh bot trial but i 100 agree with this comment he was pissed and he did..."
[00:00:00] Speaker 1: i've definitely levied my share of criticism against prosecutor matthew sweet mainly because of how the tim hickerson trial went down last year but also because of the pacing and some of the things with this trial the naresh bot trial but i 100 agree with this comment he was pissed and he did exactly what he was supposed to do when he cross-examined naresh bot yesterday let's watch how that cross-examination started out ready yes you're a liar yes you lied he then went and named all of the people that naresh has lied to over the past two years momta's family their friends the police his community the public reporters everybody matthew sweet was indignant and said earlier you refer to your daughter as a goddess saying all daughters were goddesses wasn't momta a goddess and he said yes he said he was their goddess right referring to momta's mother and brother in the courtroom momta was a goddess to everyone she was loved but that's not how you treated her you treated her like trash like garbage show for your baby's mother your wife was to dismember
[00:01:15] Speaker 2: her that's the kind of love you offer that's not the love i know that's not love i'm asking is that the
[00:01:24] Speaker 1: love you give so we went back to the searches that naresh made months before momta's disappearance what happens debt of died spouse what happens if spouse disappears divorce in virginia how long to wait to remarry after spouse dies and he asked him to explain them and naresh said that they were quote not not necessarily about momta and said quote everything not related to momta end quote and of course let's fast forward to the night he says he last saw momta alive july 29th and he said he went to bed with the baby around 7 or 8 pm while momta was downstairs in the kitchen doing work he didn't eat food with her because he had already eaten somewhere else then he said he woke up at 4 a.m on the 30th but he actually woke up before that because he was awake at 12 30 a.m and looked up anatomy of a human brain but according to naresh he just likes to look stuff up sweet then had him walk through the morning he says he found momta dead again and you know pointed out some of the weird inconsistencies including the fact that according to him momta was staying in their bedroom he was staying in a room down the hall but he went to their bedroom to use that bathroom at 4 a.m now forget the entire fact that he said the reasons they stayed in separate bedrooms was so that they wouldn't disturb the other one and he's going in using the bathroom right next to her at 4 a.m he also passed a whole bathroom on the way there but said they don't use that bathroom so at that time the bed was on the same wall as the bathroom but naresh says that he didn't initially see mopta who he said was lying on the floor at the foot of the bed but then he eventually did see her and saw that she was lying in vomit and then matthew sweet said did you see blood and where and he said it was mixed up in the vomit and he asked more details about what was in the vomit and naresh said he saw pills spicy ramen noodles two different types of doll blood and vomit and remember he also says that he saw poison in her vomit and this whole selfless poison thing is bizarre so here's some of
[00:03:50] Naresh Bot: that testimony a pack of this selfos what color would it be i never used this by myself but it should be like brownies white he was the pest control saying that you is this a powder powder type brownies white yes who bought the selfos and put it in your house i exactly don't know it's supposed to be mamta mopta would have bought this poison because it doesn't uh here it come from back home everything come from back home she does meaning this was brought from nepal that is correct
[00:04:28] Speaker 2: did you bring this from nepal no so mopta traveled internationally from nepal to the united states
[00:04:35] Naresh Bot: with poison i did not say that you said she brought it into the house a lot of other stuff clothes these that you don't have to go over there to buy this focus
[00:04:47] Speaker 2: the poison focus the poison yes mamta brought this from nepal
[00:04:58] Speaker 1: he uh had it brought to her sure okay sure we then asked a couple of important questions he said was mamta dead naresh said maybe but i tried medical procedures and he said cpr and naresh said yeah and he said so you did mouth to mouth he said yes he said you did mouth to mouth even though you thought she had taken poison and he said yeah and he's like the poison that would have been in the vomit that was all over her face and mouth and he said yes and let's get back to this poison again because this is driving me crazy i'm going to do a whole other video on like the forensic aspect of this but let's talk about this poison and how naresh somehow was able to see it in her vomit
[00:05:49] Speaker 2: that cell phone that poison you were able to see it in her her vomit yes after looking at carefully yes well you said it was a powder right yes doesn't powder absorb into fluids that's why i say like
[00:06:15] Naresh Bot: carefully look then you can see otherwise not you had to look carefully okay okay
[00:06:22] Speaker 1: sweet then went after the other parts of his story that didn't make any sense like the fact that naresh had military and police training but never thought to call a medical professional instead he said that he brought water to mamta and he said did she drink it and he said no i just poured it in her mouth and then he went downstairs and got a stethoscope so there is a woman who is likely in the process of rigor mortis like that's how dead she is at this point he says he tried to do chest compressions mouth to mouth for over an hour then started pouring water in her mouth in some misguided effort to bring her back and then instead of using her phone which was right next to her body or going to the other room to get his phone he went downstairs and got a stethoscope to listen to a dead woman's heart but you know he did all this because he panicked but when he was in the military he took cls which is a combat lifesaver course and as we pointed out you take that course and they put you in situations so that you would become familiar in an emergency situation and not panic but all naresh says he did was panic he was afraid that he would get blamed because their relationship wasn't good and so we'd said your fear of being accused of murder was stronger than your feelings to save mamta and then he said it's not like that by the time i found her she was dead but just a few minutes previously when asked if mamta was dead he said maybe sweet asked him if he felt guilty for her death if he felt responsible if he was a contributor and he said yes and he said look either mamta poisoned herself or you poisoned her and he said i never poisoned her i would never hurt her and he said you've never heard mamta physically and he said never you're telling the truth on that one yes then they went into the plate smashing incident that we've heard about throughout this trial and nourish said it didn't hurt her it wasn't intentional it was nothing mamta tripped the plate fell out of her hand and touched his head and then he pushed the plate and left and then sweet said so there's no domestic violence in your relationship and nourish said no and so he said why then are all of these people coming in here and saying differently and he's like i don't know he said could it be because you were abusive and nourish said i don't know then they got back to that race ceremony and how the date got changed because mamta was injured nourish said that mamta told him she fell down the stairs and then we got to see a facebook message that mamta sent on december 11th 2023 and in that message was this picture a picture of mamta with a bruise underneath her right eye blood coming out of her nostril and blood on her hand but it's not even the picture that's the worst part or the most damning part it's the text that was below the picture mamta said quote this is second time to which an arrest replied quote i can sign divorce papers and then in the line below that he said quote i don't want this again i can sign divorce papers after she's sending you photos of an accident that she had he said i don't want whatever is in this picture mom to try to say that i did this but i wasn't even there here's part of that testimony
[00:09:52] Naresh Bot: we're saying you did not do this to her if i have do like why she have to send the picture to me i
[00:09:58] Speaker 2: wasn't there as proof of domestic violence
[00:10:03] Naresh Bot: i'm losing it's not right it's not right no picture is right picture is right but like i did is not right i never touched uh uh at all in my whole life never not only mom not any family member not at
[00:10:18] Speaker 2: all the only time you touched mom does when you chopped her up so we then tried to get in a rush to
[00:10:23] Speaker 1: admit that he was lying about saying he was always faithful to mamta and brought up baltimore and i was excited because i thought we were finally going to get some information about baltimore but we didn't he said he has two female friends who live there but they were just friends he was hanging out with them the night of the 27th but he came home after mamta texted him in the early morning hours of the 28th he got home they did not have a fight and then sweet asked him about the google search the happy new year's greeting to girlfriend and naresh said i don't remember searching that i don't have a girlfriend at all then he said well why are you searching for your ex-fiancé lolita bot and he said i don't remember that and then we did find out that lolita bot wasn't his only ex-fiancé before lolita there was another woman whose first name began with p p bot also bot and that also didn't work out so it was p bot lolita bot and then mamta so we asked why he was searching the name right under that for dr dixia dakota and he says he doesn't remember searching that even though it was right after the lolita bot search he brought up the colombian girl texts but once again your rush said that was all just a joke we then brought up another tenant in his wickersham way apartment who we haven't heard from a trial named akash and he said that naresh and akash had a falling out after akash's wife caught naresh twice with different women coming out of his bedroom he said sweet said that akash confronted naresh and said his wife heard him having sex with two different women but naresh pushed back and said that's not why they had the falling out it was about a car and whatever and sweet said you do sometimes lie though right and naresh said yes but he said in this case it's akash who's the liar and says that that conversation about cheating with two different women never happened there was more questioning in which basically sweet tried to attack naresh's credibility and kept on bringing up the fact that he is an admitted liar at this point and says you told everybody today that you're a liar naresh said yes he said you've been telling everybody lies about where mamta is he says yes he said do you want the jury to believe that you're telling the truth today naresh said of course and he said you beat the case that the jury believes you right and nurse said i'm a hundred percent honest and then sweet said you didn't find mamta dead right you killed her he said no he said you did he said no he said you've been planning to kill mamta for months right he said never and here's why this is so important if the jury believes naresh's story that mamta died by suicide and he's only guilty of covering that up and disposing of her body he's only going to serve a maximum of 10 years in prison so if his story resonates with at least one jury member and they don't get that murder conviction he's going to be out when he's still in his 40s sweet initially said he was going to have more questions for naresh on monday but then ended with no further questions which i was really really disappointed by because i was hoping that the prosecution would take the weekend and come up with more contradictions and more things to press him on because i feel like we really need to talk about the forensics and how his story simply does not match with the evidence i'm going to do a full other video on the forensic aspect of this but i'm hoping that when the prosecution calls the rebuttal witnesses that is what we're focusing on because they have to make sure that the jury believes that his story could not have happened the way he said it does because if only one jury disagrees they're not getting that murder conviction and naresh won't be spending the rest of his life in prison so tell me what you think do you think a story is going to work on the jury do you think the prosecution has done a good enough job of poking holes in it. I want to hear your thoughts.