New Delhi:
A senior official said on Tuesday that a notorious serial killer was notorted as a ‘doctor’s death’, who was arrested by the Delhi Police after jumping on parole last year.
He said that the culprit was arrested a day before an ashram in Dausa, Rajasthan, where he was presenting as a priest under a false identity.
An Ayurveda Practitioner-Criminal, 67-year-old Vivender Sharma, was convicted in several murder cases and was notorious for dumping the bodies of his victims in a crocodile-enhanced water of Hazra Canal in Kasganj, Uttar Pradesh.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment in seven separate cases in Delhi, Rajasthan and Haryana, and he was awarded the death penalty by the Gurgaon court.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Aditya Gautam said that Devendra Sharma, a BAMS (Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery) degree holder, between 2002 and 2004, was serving life imprisonment in Tihar Jail for the brutal killings of several taxis and truck drivers, when he jumped into Parole in August 2023.
“Sharma and his companions called drivers for fake visits, killed them and sold their vehicles in the gray market,” said DCP Gautam. The bodies were thrown into the Hazara Canal to erase all the evidence, known for the crocodile population.
The official said that Sharma has a long criminal history which includes at least 27 cases of murder, kidnapping and robbery.
He first got notorious to run an illegal kidney transplant racket between 1998 and 2004. He accepted more than 125 illegal transplant facilities with the help of doctors and middlemen working in several states.
In 1994, Sharma turned to a crime after a huge financial loss in a failed gas dealership deal. A year later, he began running a fake gas agency and later entered illegal organ trade. His criminal pursuit then expanded to the targeted killings of taxi drivers. Modus Aperandi included hiring taxis, killing drivers and selling their vehicles in the gray market. The bodies were fed to crocodiles.
Sharma was arrested in 2004 in connection with both kidney racket and serial killings.
The official said, “He was sentenced to life imprisonment in seven separate murder cases in Delhi, Rajasthan and Haryana, and even received death sentence from the Gurgaon court in a case. Police believe he was responsible for more than 50 murders,” the officer said.
During his time as a fugitive, Sharma was in disguise as a priest in an ashram in Dausa, Rajasthan.
“Sharma had jumped into the Tihar Jail in August 2023, leaping and participated in Parole and participated. The Crime Branch was assigned to search for it. After a six -month long operation, Aligarh, Jaipur, Delhi, Agra, Agra, Agra, Agra, Agra, Agra and the Prevention, the team called him as an ashram.
This is not the first time that Sharma escaped while staying on parole. In 2020, he failed to return after a 20-day parole and lived on a large scale for seven months before being caught in Delhi. In June 2023, he was re -parole for two months in a case registered at Sarita Vihar police station, but disappeared after August 3, 2023.
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