Kumar’s confessions stun police in and around Delhi.
AB Wire
NEW DELHI: Monster child rapist and serial killer Ravinder Kumar, 24, may have killed as many as 40 children in and around Delhi in the past seven years, as interrogators continue to unravel all the cases of missing children in the recent past through his confessions.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Vikramjit Singh told IANS. “Most of the cases have taken place in and around Delhi.”
Singh said on Monday that Kumar – who hails from Kasganj in Uttar Pradesh but has been living in Delhi – was taken to Narela, Bawana and Alipur, the places in outer Delhi identified by him during interrogation, reported The Hindu.
“This helped us to establish the fact (about the number of children raped and killed),” the officer told IANS. “I am monitoring the case myself. The investigations till now suggest that the toll might reach 40,” he added.
Until now, police had thought the number of Kumar’s victims would be around 15.
Police have mounted a massive operation to know if the cases of missing children filed in the past five years in Vijay Nagar, Bawana, Narela, Alipur, Begumpur, Kanjhawala, Samaypur Badli and other areas are related to this case, Singh said.
Last year, Kumar was arrested for assaulting a minor boy in Begumpur in south Delhi. He abducted the boy near his house and fled after slitting his throat.
He assumed the boy was dead. But the victim survived as police found him bleeding in a septic tank of an under-construction building, the officer said. Kumar was let off in that case – because at that time police did not know about the enormity of his saga, the Hindu reported.
Kumar was again arrested on July 16 for raping and murdering a six-year-old girl in Begumpur. The girl had gone missing on July 14.
The Hindustan Times reported on Tuesday that of the 20 new crimes he reportedly committed, as many as four took place in outer Delhi, Kumar told the police. Investigators have already connected three out of the four crimes that happened in Kanjhawala, Bawana and Aman Vihar, a police source said.
With this, the total number of children who fell prey to Kumar’s gruesome acts in outer Delhi stands at 10. One incident took place in Haryana’s Faridabad. The remaining crimes, a police officer privy to the probe said, were committed in different parts of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.
Delhi police officials expressed surprise over the new revelations made by Kumar on each day of his police custody. The police are now planning to conduct a brain-mapping test on Kumar to authenticate his claims, the Times reported.
Asked if Kumar had shared details about all the 30-odd crimes he had committed between 2008 and 2015, an investigating officer said he was able to recall the places of crimes in almost 20 cases.
“A good number of such crimes were committed in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. We will soon take him to all those places. He will first be taken to Noida’s Sector 74 and 76 where he had allegedly kidnapped, murdered and then sexually abused two minor girls in 2013. During that time, Kumar was working in Noida as a laborer at building construction sites,” said the officer.
According to the officer, both such cases in Noida went unreported as the families of the victims, who were laborers themselves, left for some unknown destinations after the crime.
The Indian Express reported one confession f Kumar left officials in two states particularly perplexed. For, this particular case — involving the death of a five-year-old girl — had already been closed by police in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, with the arrest of the girl’s father, who has been in jail since 2013.
Sources said that during questioning, Kumar said that in 2013, he had kidnapped, raped and murdered a five-year-old girl in Nagla Chandan village in Hathras.
“Kumar told police that he was visiting his maternal uncle’s home when he committed the crime. Following the admission, the Investigating Officer of the Delhi Police approached Nagla Sikandar police station and came to know that they had already registered an FIR in the case under sections 302 (murder), 364 (abduction), 201 (destruction of evidence) and 34 of the Indian Penal Code,” police said.
The case lodged by the police in UP made no mention of sexual assault. The police had filed a charge sheet in the court and arrested the girl’s father in 2013, the Express reported.
Confirming this, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer Delhi), Vikramjit Singh told The Indian Express that they had approached the police station concerned in UP. “We found out that after registering an FIR, the police concerned had initially arrested four persons. However, they were later discharged and the girl’s father was arrested,” he said.
When contacted, Nagla Sikandar police station officer Balbir Singh said, “The two cases are completely separate. In this case, the father had killed the girl by throttling her. But he tried to shift the blame on to four people who had an existing enmity with him. We found scientific evidence against the father and arrested him. But if Delhi Police approaches us with fresh evidence, we will welcome them and investigate the matter.”
Ajai Shankar Rai, Additional Superintendent of Police, Hathras, said, “The Delhi Police have made no communication with us, either through official or unofficial channels. However, if they do, we’ll follow the legal procedure and look into the matter.”
1 Comment
village ramna dist gadwa jharkhand