In a rather shocking incident, nine females died of asphyxiation within the span of one year and three months in one of the villages of Bareilly district which forced the police to believe that a rampage killer might be at work. The murders, the report said, have occurred within a 25 kilometre radius of the location and targeted women in villages under two police stations. All the victims were women aged between 45 and 55 years, and they were found strangled in fields at mid-morning, fully dressed but with garments partly disarranged; however, their assailants did not rape them, as evidenced by a lack of ejaculation.
Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police Prashant Kumar also said that the investigation process has been conducted for six months. ”Our teams have been investigating these cases and have not excluded the probability of a serial killer mainly because of the similarities in the approach used in the murders,” added Kumar to the press.
The term ‘serial killer’ on the other hand is used in the context of an offender who kills two or more persons in the course of a time period that is spaced with breaks in between as the killer is motivated by psychological pleasure as distinct from other offenders who are motivated by tangible goals. In particular, such killers often have some chosen strategies regarding the choice of victims and the ways of killing them.
The subject of a serial killer wandering around in Bareilly gives a flashback to some of the ruthless killers in India, killing sprees and the latest of them was Ravinder Kumar who was arrested in the year 2015 for raping and murdering a six years old girl. Kumar later on admitted to have murdered at least 30 more children within the three states of Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh in a period of eight years. Gruesome accounts of his performances left the investigators dumbfounded since he was accurate with the place and date of the incident.
In the current investigation of the Bareilly case, the police are rounding up their efforts to avoid more devastating incidents and offering justice to the victim, and, at the same time, the population of Bareilly is waiting for the end of the manhunt.
