New Delhi: In revelations that have shocked even the police, serial killer Ravinder Kumar has admitted to raping and murdering more than 30 children in and around Delhi. The police has formed a special team to investigate the horrific case.
In a confession that left Deputy Commissioner of Police Vikramjit Singh “deeply shaken”, Kumar confessed to snuffing out the lives of the children -- all under 14 years since 2008.
“I am deeply shaken from inside,” Singh said. “I cannot express in words what all I am going through.”Singh said that on last Monday Kumar was taken to Narela, Bawana and Alipur, the places in outer Delhi identified by him during interrogation.
“This helped us to establish the fact (about the number raped and killed),” the officer said.“I am myself monitoring the case. The investigations till now suggest that the toll might reach 40,” he added.
The 24-year-old Kumar -- who apparently shows no guilt feeling -- began his crime spree sometime in 2008.
He would lure children with candies and kill them if they resisted. He also exhibited symptoms of necrophilia as he would have sex with their bodies, said Singh.
Kumar yesterday admitted to having committed his first crime when he was barely 17 years old. A labourer’s girl child from a Delhi Metro construction site was his first victim. Police, however, could not find a record of the crime as it was not reported.
Getting scot free after the first crime emboldened Kumar, and in 2009 he kidnapped a labourer’s son from Vijay Vihar here, sodomised and strangled him. This time a case was registered against him but he managed to evade law due to lack of witnesses and other evidence. Kumar claimed that he had killed 11 of his victims after they resisted his attempts to sexually assault them or threatened to expose him.
Revealing his modus operandi, Kumar told police that he usually committed the crimes in the afternoon or in the early hours.
Singh said: “He would go around colonies looking for children playing outside their house or near toilets and lure them with money and sweets. If they refused, he would simply gag and pick them up.
He even targeted two 14-year-olds known to a relative while visiting his aunt during a marriage ceremony in Aligarh in 2012. However, they were let off after they promised to keep quite about the incident.
Last year, Kumar was arrested for assaulting a 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.
Kumar got bail then in that case -- because at that time police did not know about the criminality in his history sheet.
He was again arrested on July 16 for raping and murdering a six-year-old girl in Begumpur. And the interrogation that followed this arrest exposed Kumar’s shocking crime saga. IANS
