Naresh Bhatt trial Day 13: Disturbing searches, trash compactor video shown

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Oct 29, 2026
In Northern Virginia, new digital evidence introduced
today against Naresh Bhat on day 13 of his murder trial.
The jury is seeing Google searches Bhat made months before
his wife, Mamta, went missing,
and that includes one inquiring about giving away their child.
Fox 5's Homa Bass joining us now with those details. Homa?
Hey, guys. Good evening.
And the digital deep dive is disturbing to say the very least.
A forensic investigator was saying that in March,
months before Mamta went missing,
Bhat Googled things like what happens if a spouse disappeared.
They also discovered searches about meat cutters,
hand saws for wood cutting, and knife sharpeners at Dollar Tree.
And then there's this, perhaps the most shocking,
about the one-year-old baby he shared with Mamta at the time.
Were there any searches talking about donations?
Can I donate my baby to my friend?
There were searches also related to applying for a baby's passport.
There were also Google searches about melatonin dosing for both adults
and children, as well as travel from India, Delhi to Dulles.
Investigators also say Bhat changed Mamta's
contact name in his phone to, quote,
bad memory at some point with a running emoji after it,
and also read messages discussing another woman with another person.
The defense challenging how reliably
the digital evidence can be interpreted.
Some saying some of those Google searches did not contain timestamps,
so investigators can't determine exactly
when they happened or in what order.
For many of these, you don't know when the searches happened.
That's right.
You don't know physically where they might have
been when they were doing these searches.
That's correct.
You don't know why they're searching for these items.
Correct.
Investigators also testified Bhat made eight outgoing calls
to his wife after she disappeared.
A video enhancement expert
also walked jurors through images of Naresh in his home and at
several trash compactors wearing gloves while dumping small bags.
The trial continues tomorrow for day 14.
Jim.
