Delhi: Serial killer who jumped parole in January in Crime Branch’s net

NEW DELHI: The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has arrested a convicted serial killer, who had jumped parole in January this year and gone underground. The convict, Devender Sharma (62), was serving a life sentence at the Central Jail in Jaipur in a murder case and was behind bars for about 16 years.
According to DCP (Crime) Rakesh Powaria, Sharma was involved in over a dozen cases of kidnapping and murder registered in different police stations of Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. “He and his accomplices used to dump dead bodies in Hazara Canal in Kashganj, Uttar Pradesh. Sharma was also arrested twice for running a fake gas agency in UP,” the DCP added.
Cops said that Sharma was also arrested for running a kidney transplant racket in different states and is estimated to have got more than 125 kidney transplant done from 1994 to 2004, with the help of doctors and middlemen. The kidnappings and murders the accused committed were linked to the kidney racket, an officer claimed.
Having a BAMS degree, Sharma was later referred to as Dr Death. After jumping parole, he married a widow and was started residing secretly in Baprola area of Delhi.
“While gathering information about wanted and desperate criminals, ACP JN Jha and inspector Ram Manohar from the narcotics cell got a tip-off about a convicted killer, who was let out on parole for 20 days from Jaipur jail but never returned,” the DCP said.
Cops conducted on-ground enquiries and located Sharma’s hideout. A raid was conducted and he was nabbed. During interrogation, he told police that he had a degree in BAMS from Bihar’s Siwan district and had opened a clinic in Jaipur in 1984.
Later, he and his associates started robbing trucks carrying LPG cylinders. The men used to kill the driver and steal the cylinders. He later started targeting taxi drivers, and then got involved in an illegal kidney transplant racket running in Jaipur, Ballabhgarh, Gurgaon and other places.