5 Most Notorious Serial Killers In India
It is difficult to know what goes on in the mind of a serial killer. They kill for the pleasure of it, mostly in an intricate pattern, seldom disoriented. They see the act of killing like it is some kind of art. Sometimes they have a motive behind killing people. Most of the time they don’t. Terrifying, isn’t it? The sheer barbarism and violence that a human is capable of projecting are simply horrifying. These are the people who transgress societal and moral norms, and they commit crimes that are simply unforgivable. The presence of serial killers in India is not a new thing. History has been witness to some of the most notorious serial killers in India whose crimes are threateningly spine-chilling.
Here’s a list of some of the most dangerous serial killers in India who are, by the grace of God, either dead or in jail.
Sushil Sharma had shot dead his wife in 1995 objecting to her alleged relationship with a male friend. He had then chopped her body into pieces and attempted to burn it in a restaurant oven. Known as the tandoor murder case, it is one of the landmark cases in India in which DNA evidence and a second autopsy were used to establish the guilt of the accused.
The bench of Justice Siddarth Mridul and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal had said that “life and liberty of any individual is of paramount consideration” and asked the Delhi government how someone can be kept in custody “indefinitely”. Sharma, in prison since 1995, has contended that he has already undergone the maximum prescribed sentence as mandated under the SRB guidelines.
He had many names including Serpent, Bikini Killer, Cobra, Snake among others, which he earned because of his cunning disposition. The fact that he killed two women, Teresa Knowlton and Charmayne Carrou, while they were in their swimsuits, earned him the name Bikini Killer.
Netflix's The Serpent might seem unbelievable to many, but the truth is that the makers of the show had to temper the real-life story of French serial killer Charles Sobhraj for it was too bizarre for TV. Here are some of the real-life facts that will give you insight into his life.
He used to work the magic of his charm on people. He would befriend his victims and later drug them to loot or kill them. He was an expert in psychology and was also fluent in many languages. And je managed to escape from the jails of Afghanistan, Greece, Iran and India. In 1971, he escaped from an Indian prison.This is what earned him the title of Serpent. Following this, he was arrested in 1917. This time his escape was more audacious than before. He threw a birthday party and invited guards and prisoners. The grapes and biscuits handed over to the guests were injected with sleeping pills. Everyone slept after the party except him and four others who escaped.
KD Kempamma, India's first female serial killer, was one such person, motivated purely by greed and the desire for better material comfort. Kempamma, a 45-year-old at the time of her arrest, was given the moniker “Cyanide Mallika” as she killed multiple people in and around Bangalore in cold blood using potassium cyanide.
Mallika preyed on vulnerable women, souls seeking peace in the city's temples. Often, these women were childless or facing marital problems, and were deeply religious, looking towards the divine for help. Kempamma promised them that she could give them what they sought; she would claim to be skilled in the art of performing pujas and that she could make possible the miracles these desperate women were hoping for.
After gaining the victims’ confidence, Mallika would ask them to come dressed in expensive clothes and jewellery for the alleged rituals. The victim would then be taken to a desolate spot near the temple. Once there, Mallika would start the puja; she would ask her victims to close their eyes, forcibly pushing cyanide powder mixed with either food or drink into their mouths. Mallika carried out several such coldblooded murders over the course of nine years in temples across Bangalore.
Raman Raghav is said to have killed over 40 Mumbai residents between 1966 and 1968 by bashing in their heads with an iron rod. He was a tricky man to capture as he picked his victims randomly.
Anurag Kashyap's Raman Raghav 2.0, film in 2016, has Nawazuddin Siddiqui playing a psychopathic serial killer Ramanna who calls himself a nishachar (creature of the dark).
Most of Raghav's victims were pavement and hut dwellers, living on the streets and suburbs, and had been bludgeoned to death with a hard object. He had also killed his sister with several stab wounds after raping her. The police though, did not find anything on him, to connect to the murders, and thus let him go. He received life imprisonment as his mental illness was found to be "incurable". He lived at the Yerwada Central Jail, till he died in 1995 from kidney failure.
(Images from the movie Posham pa)
Renuka Shinde and Seema Mohan Gavit, half-sisters convicted of the killing of five children and the kidnapping of 13 others between 1990 and 1996. Also set to become the first womens to be hanged in India.
Santosh eventually became the victim of the first of the murders for which they would be convicted. To stop him crying, Anjana banged his head against an electric pole. toddler Santosh to the ground when Seema had been caught trying to snatch a purse. It gave him a head injury but the sight of the bleeding baby created enough of a commotion to allow Seema to flee. They disposed of his body near an old rickshaw heap.
They very cleverly executed their plans of kidnapping the children and the moment they were no longer useful, they killed them,” a bench of K G Balakrishnan and G P Mathur observed while confirming the death penalty.
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