Raj Bhaskar
1973 was the year. A miserable day. It was five in the morning. Sadul city police station of Sriganganagar district of Rajasthan received a call that three people have been slaughtered in the Gurdwara of the city. Police immediately reached the spot. On seeing, the dead bodies of the Gurudwara servant and his two sons were lying on the ground. When the police started the preliminary investigation, it came to know that these three were killed by hitting a heavy object below their ears. The part was torn and a waterfall of blood was flowing. Seeing the scene, it did not take long for the police to realize that the murder was linked to a link that had created an atmosphere of fear in the surrounding areas for some time past. It happened that at that time, an earlobe serial killer suddenly broke out in Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, who used to kill people by stabbing them under the earlobe. According to police estimates, this serial killer had committed about 60 murders so far. The killings had been going on for a long time, but in 1973, when a gurudwara sevadar and his sons were killed in Sriganganagar, the case made some headway. At that time Shyampratap Singh was in charge as Superintendent of Police in Rajasthan. He sent a large team to investigate the case. People were questioned in Sriganganagar. One person gave a small clue in it. He said, 'Sir, on the day of this murder, I was going out early in the morning. As I left the dirt road near the railway tracks, I saw a man walking on the railway tracks. He was wearing yellow and was walking very fast. I thought that there is no suicide! But now I suspect that it may be the murderer and not the suicide.' After that S.P. Saheb inquired at Sadul city railway station. One thing matched with the pedestrian's story. The in-charge of the ticket window said, 'Sir, a person came early in the morning around half past four. He wore yellow and took a ticket to Bhatinda.' Bathinda was checked and a ticket was issued from there to Sadul city around ten o'clock in the morning. And that person also came wearing yellow. The police suspected that Kamla had a common link in what people were talking about, but S. P. Shyamapratap Singh wanted to make this matter more concrete. Hence he started a new type of investigation. It was said that the serial killer used to commit murders with deadly attacks on Kanpatti. He who is attacked will not survive. So there is no bamboo or flute. The victim will not survive and testify, but S. P. Sahib thought that there must have been some cases where the killer could not kill people for some reason or the other. Before he hit the earring, something strange happened and he ran away. He investigated such people. S. P. Many police officers were not ready for this logic of Sahib, as the area was large. There were three states. Punjab, Rajasthan and Haryana. Even if we leave the other two states, where can we find such people in the whole of Rajasthan? But S. P. Sahib now decided to kill the serial killer. They wanted to catch him at any cost. Hence he formed several teams and started from Sriganganagar and its surrounding areas. Many people were interrogated for months. All the surrounding police stations were searched for cases in which someone had complained of assault on himself. The informants were also tasked in many areas to investigate whether anyone has been attacked in this manner or not. Months of investigation followed, thousands of people questioned. Police station case files were overturned. And eventually there were many victims who said, 'Yes, sir, a man wearing a mask tried to attack us once. He had a hammer in his hand.' And all these people also gave some reason to survive the attack. Either he himself has moved, or someone has come, or the police car has left etc… Finally S. P. Sir's suspicion turned out to be true. A serial killer sneaks out at night and suddenly attacks from behind with a hammer. When there are no tools like CCTV, Mobile, Internet, Forensic, it was very difficult to find a criminal with only these leads and that too from three states, but eventually the police managed to complete the tough task. . The Kanpattimar serial killer was caught from Kamla, and that too after six years of hard work! But how was it caught? Who was that? Why was he killing? What happened to it then? All questions related to this case, which is a milestone in the history of serial killers in India, will be answered next week. (Sequentially:)
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