A joint team of the crime units of Palam Vihar and Sector-40 of the Gurugram police arrested a dreaded serial killer in Gurugram on Thursday.
The killer had carried out consecutive murders on the night of November 24, 25 and 26, the police said on Friday.
The arrested accused has been identified as Muhammad Razi (22) of Araria district in Bihar. With the arrest of the dreaded criminal the police have also claimed to solve three blind murder mysteries which the accused had done in a span of just three days.
According to the police, during his interrogation, the accused confessed to his involvement in the three murder cases committed in Gurugram.
“The culprit was arrested from the Iffco Chowk on Thursday after specific inputs received by the investigation team. The accused has admitted that on the night of 23, 24 and 25 November, he had brutally murder three youths in Gurugram,” said Preet Pal Sangwan, ACP (Crime).
The police said that on November 24, a body was found in the Sector-29 police station area. On the evening of November 25, another dead body was recovered from the park near the Jharsa village on the Delhi-Jaipur highway.
The body was later identified as 29-year-old Akhilesh, a resident of Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh and on 26 November a headless body of a youth was found in the bushes of Sector-47 area. The deceased was identified as 26-year-old Rakesh Kumar, a resident of Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh.
During questioning the accused disclosed that he used to search his targets and insisted them to drink liquor with him. After that, he used to murder his targets with the intention of robbing their belongings.
During police interrogation, the accused also stated that he slit Rakesh’s throat with a knife and he died after some time. After death, it robbed the deceased's mobile phone and other items.
“The accused had hid the deceased head so that no other person could identify the deceased, and later he had thrown the deceased head in the bushes at Kanhai village in Gurugram and rode away from the spot. The police recovered the victim's head on Friday,” Sangwan said.
The accused was produced before a local court on Friday which sent him on police remand for further investigation, the police said.