A drug addict has been nabbed by Dhamtari police for committing a number of murders and rapes in the district.
The accused Jitendra Dhruv has admitted to murdering five persons and raping two women. He used to rob the house he targetted so that the incident might seem like a robbery, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Raipur Range, Pradeep Gupta and Dhamtari District Superintendent of Police (SP), Rajnesh Singh informed in a joint press conference here at Police Control Room.
Gupta informed that the motive of the accused in the incidents was sexual assault of the married female members.
He later used to kill the persons who intervened while attempting rape including the rape victim. The accused then used to flee from the scene while taking away valuables so that the incident looked like to be of robbery. The weapons he used to kill were tools like screw driver and hammer. The accused reportedly got inspiration from the crime serials shown in television, police officials said.
The matter was one year old and SP, Dhamtari opened the old cases recently and after investigating into the matter thoroughly, the accused fell in the police dragnet, the IGP said. Gupta further informed that the accused during interrogation had admitted his involvement in two of the cases. One of the matter was of village Telinsatti of Dhamtari in which the incident took place in the year 2016. It was a case of triple murder in which Mahendra Sinha, his wife Usha and son Mahesh were brutally killed. Another matter was of village Khapri of Dhamtari of 2017 in which the accused killed Parvati Bande, 20 and her mother Rukhmani Bai.
Talking about the clues gathered during investigation, the officials informed that they recovered two mobile sets from the incident site. During analysis they found that the signals of the sets were found from a single tower. Along with that they also scanned CCTV footage in which the face of accused was seen hazily. After scrutinizing 35 suspects they came to a decision that the crime had been committed by one Jitendra, they said.