‘Serial killer’ involved in over
50 murder cases held in Delhi
Devender Sharma had jumped parole six months ago; he also ran a kidney racket
An alleged ‘serial killer’ involved in over 50 murder
cases has been arrested in
Delhi, six months after he
jumped parole in Jaipur.
Deputy Commissioner of
Police (Crime Branch) Rakesh Paweriya said Devender Kumar Sharma, an ayurvedic doctor, is convicted in
several murder cases.
He had jumped parole in
January while serving a sentence in Jaipur. He had been
living in Delhi’s Baprola after
marrying a widow.
He was apprehended on a
tipoff, said the police.
Cheating cases
During interrogation, he allegedly shared chilling details of his criminal past and
said he had been running a
kidney racket and is involved
in multiple cheating cases,
apart from tens of murders
of taxi and truck drivers.
Devender earned his Bachelors of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery in 1984
from Bihar, and ran a clinic
in Jaipur for 11 years.
In 1994, he invested in a
fuel company and was cheated of ₹11 lakh after which he
started running a fake gas
agency in Aligarh and came
in contact with Raj, Udaiveer
and Vedveer who allegedly
committed thefts.
“These people started lifting LPG cylinders after killing truck drivers. They unloaded the cylinders in
Devender’s fake agency,” Mr.
Paweriya said.
In a parallel development,
Devender also got involved
in an interState kidney racket running through Jaipur,
Ballabhgarh, Gurugram and
a few other places.
In 2004, he was arrested
in Gurugram in connection
with the kidney racket.
“Devender claimed that
from 1994 to 2004, he got
more than 125 kidneys. He
got around ₹5 lakh₹7 Lakh
per case,” said the police.
During the same period,
Devender and his accomplices hired taxis from Jaipur to
Aligarh. They killed the drivers after which they sold the
vehicle in Kashganj or got it
dismantled in Meerut.
Devender used to get
₹20,000₹25,000 for each
vehicle. “They used to dump
bodies in Hazara Canal,
Kashganj, which has crocodiles hence, there was no
chance of retrieval of any body,” Mr. Paweriya added.
The police said that Devender has confessed to being involved in over 50 murders, however, media
reports of that time show he
was involved in 100odd cases across Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan.
He has been convicted in
only 67 cases so far.
In Jaipur, he had been
serving a life sentence in a
murder case. He got parole
after spending 16 years behind bars.
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