Butcher of Delhi: A serial killer who challenged the police before each murder

Streaming service and Voice Media Group India’s true crime series ‘Indian Predator: Butcher of Delhi’ has been released this month.

The series again focuses on a serial killer who dismembers the bodies of his victims before dumping them in the federal capital.

After serial killer Chandrakant Jha was convicted for his crimes, Jha taunted and challenged the police to try and catch them before they struck again.

Jha, a resident and migrant laborer from the eastern state of Bihar, committed the first murder in 1998, but the case against him was eventually dismissed due to lack of evidence, although he was arrested and jailed for four years for the murder. had gone

As shown in a new documentary film series released in India on July 20, Jha terrorized the city in the years after he was acquitted of murdering at least six other people.

The three-part series begins with the events of 20 October 2006, when the police are shocked to find a mutilated body outside West Delhi’s Tihar Jail. Authorities were told about the body by an anonymous caller, now identified as Jha. Later, the police found a writing in the remains of the body.

In this letter, Jha claimed responsibility for the murder and promised to hand over the body of another victim if the police failed to arrest him in time.

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Shortly thereafter, in April and May 2007, Jha killed two youths and dismembered their bodies at various locations in New Delhi.

After his arrest on 20 May 2007, Jha was convicted of the murders of three men he befriended on the pretext of helping them find work. During interrogation, he confessed to killing several people and dumping their dead bodies at different places in Delhi.

News reports at the time indicated that the killer’s modus operandi was always the same: Jha would brutally kill his victims after disagreements over trivial matters such as eating meat or having sex with a woman. Mutilate their bodies.

He was found guilty of three murders between 2006 and 2007 and sentenced to death twice and life in prison at a trial in February 2013. The death sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment after three years, with no exception for commutation.

At sentencing, Judge Kamini Lau wrote that Jha had committed the crimes “with the utmost ruthlessness and extreme ferocity”.

‘Indian Predator: Butcher of Delhi’ is now streaming on Netflix.


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