New Delhi, July 21: 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, an officer said Tuesday.
In a confession that has left deputy commissioner of police Vikramjit Singh ‘deeply shaken’, Kumar confessed to snuffing out the lives of the children — all under 14 years — in and around Delhi since 2008.
“I am deeply shaken from inside,” Singh told the media. “I cannot express in words what all I am going through.”
Singh said that Monday Kumar — who hails from Kasganj in Uttar Pradesh but lives in Delhi — 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 suggests 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. 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. Worse, he would have sex with their bodies, making him suffer from necrophilia, said Singh. Kumar Tuesday 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 here was his first victim. He took her to an isolated spot, had sex with her and then dumped the body after killing her. Police, however, could not find a record of the crime as it was not reported. Getting scot free after the first crime emboldened Kumar, he told police.
In 2009, Kumar 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 he usually committed the crimes in the afternoon or in the early hours. IANS
