There was an atmosphere of panic in Bareilly, UP after the murder of 9 women in the last one year. Women were afraid to come out of their homes. The police have arrested the murderer who had committed these serial murders. The accused used to target only women above 45 years of age. If the women refused to have sex, he would strangulate them and after the incident, he would take some item with him.
Bareilly SSP Anurag Arya said that ‘Operation Talaash’ was launched to arrest this psycho killer, in which 22 teams were formed and this operation was conducted in an area of 25 kilometers. For this, more than 600 new cameras were installed and the help of 1500 old CCTV cameras was taken and the data of more than 1.5 lakh mobile phones was extracted and put on surveillance, only then the police was able to reach the accused.
Study done by sending police team to Mumbai
The way the accused was targeting middle-aged women, it became clear to the police that this was the work of a psycho killer. To understand this, a police team was sent to Mumbai. Testing was done by the surveillance team by taking data of about 1.5 lakh mobile numbers. By taking voter lists of nearby villages, people were identified whose lives were in turmoil. After that, after the sketch, the police got information from the informer, after which Kuldeep Gangwar (35), son of Baburam was arrested. The accused has also confessed to the murder of six of these women.
After all, how did a serial killer become an accused?
During interrogation by the police, accused Kuldeep told that he is a resident of Bakarganj village of Nawabganj police station area. He has two sisters, while his mother is dead. She told that her father Baburam had married another woman while her mother was alive. After that, he would often beat the first wife at the behest of the second wife. Because of this, he had a feeling of hatred towards his stepmother. Because of which he started making women of his stepmother’s age his victims.
The accused used to beat his wife also brutally.
The accused told the police that he was married in the year 2014. He did not behave normally with his wife, due to which he used to beat her when she protested. Fed up with his violent tendencies, his wife also left him a few years ago. Due to these reasons, getting frustrated, he started consuming cannabis, sulpha, alcohol etc. and after leaving his home in Bakarganj, he started wandering in the nearby forests and villages.
He used to attack only after seeing a woman alone.
Kuldeep has confessed to the murder of six women. Kuldeep has complete knowledge of the deserted, farm roads and footpaths of the surrounding area. He used to roam around on foot all day long and attack a woman only after seeing her alone in a deserted place. Before attacking, he made sure that no one saw him following the woman. If, while chasing a woman, he met any child, man or other woman on the way, then he would not have committed the crime that day. During interrogation, he told that the reason for all the incidents of murder was in the sugarcane field, because there is cover in the sugarcane field.
The accused used to tie a knot with a cloth around his neck
The accused also told that after going 10-5 meters inside the sugarcane field, even if someone passes by nearby, the person lying inside will not be detected. When asked about tying a knot around the neck, he said that he wanted to ensure that the woman was dead. Therefore, after killing a woman, while going away from there, he would tie a tight knot with the saree or scarf she was wearing around her neck so that even if a woman had some consciousness left, she would have no chance of surviving later.
Serial killer did not have mobile
Police said that accused Kuldeep never used mobile phone nor used any vehicle or means for commuting. He used to roam around on foot and after the murder, he used to take the belongings of his victims as souvenirs.
Which woman’s belongings did the accused take away?
The accused used to take some belongings of the women whom he murdered as a memento. When he murdered the first woman, Anita Devi, he took with him her voter ID card, red lipstick, red bindi and a piece of the blouse she was wearing at the time of the incident. Similarly, after the murder of Premvati, a woman from Anandpur village, he took a sickle. Similarly, the Aadhaar card of the deceased Dhanwati of Kulcha village, the sickle of the deceased Mahmudan of Lakhimpur village of Shishgarh police station area and a bundle of beedis, matchstick and Rs 130 in cash were taken from the deceased of the fifth incident.
How did the accused Kuldeep Gangwar get caught by the police?
In fact, from July last year till now, cases of murder of six women were registered in Shishgarh and Shahi police station area. Many police teams were deployed to expose them. Police had arrested many people in this case, one of them was Kuldeep Gangwar.