Madhya Pradesh has most serial killers, says NCRB data

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh has more serial killers than any other state, according to the latest NCRB report. Out of 12 such cases in India in 2021, four were from MP, followed by three in neighbouring Chhattisgarh, two in Tamil Nadu, and one each in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh.
In 2020, MP was fourth in the country with two cases of serial killings. Of the 30 cases reported that year, seven each were in Gujarat and Chhattisgarh, four in Tamil Nadu and three in UP. In 2019, MP was second.

Be it Sarman Shivhare, who killed at least 22 people before he was caught, or Aadesh Khamra, the tailor from Bhopal who murdered 34 truck drivers in cold blood, details of these crimes send a chill down your spine.
Aadesh Khamra: He stitched clothes by day and killed by night. A serial truck driver killer, Khamra argued that he killed people to “save them the suffering of having to stay away from home”. In 2018, Khamra was caught by woman SP Bittu Sharma from a forest in UP. Pistol in hand, she had searched tuck after truck, until she found Khamra.
Sarman Shivhare: He confessed to 22 murders four years. Caught in 2011, he had illusions of grandeur and even harboured political ambitions. His only weakness was superstition. Once he changed a plan to kill his target after a cat crossed his path. An engineering college dropout, he tested his first pistol by shooting a woman in Gwalior and watching her die. His crazed dream was to kill to get rich quick.
Udayan Das: The grave digger. Udayan Das shocked the country in 2016 with the murder of both his parents and live-in partner Akansha Sharma and is seving a life term in Bengal. Das had killed his parents in 2010 at their home in Raipur and buried their bodies in the garden. In July 2016, he murdered his girlfriend, placed her body in a metal box and poured concrete to create a mausoleum of sorts inside his bedroom. He covered the block with marble. He was caught in 2020.