A suspected serial killer who allegedly buried seven people alive, including five of his family members, has been arrested here, the police said on Sunday.
Thirty-five-year-old Arun Chandrakar finally landed in police net on Saturday, following recovery of three skeletons buried in the courtyard of his house, Raipur district senior superintendent of police (SSP) Dipansu Karba told reporters on Sunday. “The accused has confessed to have killed his father, wife, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, and uncle-in-law and two other people. We have so far recovered four skeletons and are in process of seizing three others,”, Mr Karba said.
During interrogation by police, the alleged psychopath killer reportedly said he had drugged his wife, brother-in-law and sister-in-law and then buried them alive in his the courtyard of his house. He had committed the three murders at different points of time between January-June, 2011. “He used to drug his victims first and then bury them alive”, police said.
After recovering three skeletons, believed to be those of his wife, brother-in-law and sister-in-law, in his house, police also dug out another skeleton from another house, where he was staying on rent five years ago. The skeleton was believed to be that of the house owner. The accused confessed that he had killed his former landlord. Later, he killed a woman of the locality and buried in the same house to implicate the diseased landlord’s son.
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Police rejects rushdie’s claim
age correspondent
Jaipur, jan. 22
Rejecting Salman Rushdie’s charge that it had concocted the story about a plot to eliminate him to keep him away from India, the Rajasthan police said it had no communication with Mr Rushdie about his proposed visit.
Mr Rushdie on Sunday accused the police of misleading him regarding his proposed visit to Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) and concocting a false story saying that there was threat to his life. However, Jaipur police commissioner B.L. Joshi strongly refuted such remarks. “We had no communication with Mr Rushdie. We didn’t contact Rushdie. I could not understand why he was saying all this,” Mr Soni said while talking to this newspaper. The organisers of the festival said they were informed by the home department officials in connection with possible threat to Mr Rushdie.
“We were shown papers in this regard and we shared it with Mr Rushdie. Obviously, security is our priority,” says a senior person among the organisers.
The JLF’s Sanjoy Roy confirmed it while speaking to mediapersons. Chief secretary S. Ahmad refused to comment on Mr Rushdie’s remarks.