POLICE PROBE IF SERIAL KILLER ON LOOSE IN NEW DELHI

NEW DELHI: Three different teams of investigators are comparing notes to answer a question that’s haunting Delhi police: Has a new serial killer emerged in the Capital?

Three mutilated bodies have been found in a 10-kilometre radius in south Delhi over the last 10 days. The modus operandi seems similar — the bodies were mutilated, hacked and dumped in drains or street corners. In each case, police believe the murder was carried out far from the spot where the body was recovered. The bodies were either naked or dressed only in undergarments.

However, senior police officers are hesitant to attribute the murders to a single killer — or even suggest that they may be linked — because they don’t have any evidence to support the theory. Moreover, they have not been able to identify the victim or recover the murder weapon in any of the cases.

“It could be a mere coincidence that all the three bodies were hacked. Our teams are working on solving this case soon,” joint commissioner of police (south west) Dependra Pathak told HT.

The first incident came to light on November 25, when the decapitated body of a woman — possibly in her mid-30s — was recovered from a sewer on the ground floor of a Munirka building. A week later, on the morning of November 2, a murdered man with his legs chopped off was found under a tree in Mangal Bazar area of Sangam Vihar.

In the third incident, the body of a woman with her lower torso missing was fished out of a drain near the Delhi Jal Board office at Amar Colony on November 3.

THE MODUS OPERANDI OF THE MURDERS SEEMS SIMILAR. BUT POLICE LACK PROOF TO SUPPORT THE THEORY OF A SINGLE KILLER