NEW DELHI — 2006 · Serial Murder

The "Butcher of Delhi" Murders

SolvedSources: ALast updated: 14 October 2026

A serial killer living in West Delhi, found to have murdered migrant workers he had first befriended, terrorised the city in 2006-2007 by leaving the dismembered bodies of three victims outside the gates of Tihar Jail, together with notes taunting the police. He had been arrested over his first killing in 1998 but freed for lack of evidence in 2002. Caught in May 2007, he was convicted of three separate murders in 2013 and sentenced to death; the Delhi High Court later commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. Dubbed the 'Butcher of Delhi', the case became the subject of a 2022 Netflix documentary. In 2024 he was re-arrested after failing to return from parole.

Date: 2006
Place: West Delhi, India, New Delhi, IN
Category: Serial Murder
Case Status: Solved
Coordinates: 28.6200, 77.1000 ↗

Timeline of Events

1998His first killing; he was freed for lack of evidence in 2002.
October 2006 – May 2007Three bodies and notes were left outside Tihar Jail.
May 2007He was arrested.

2013He was convicted of three murders; the death sentence was later commuted to life.
2024He was re-arrested after absconding from parole.

Sources

Deccan Herald — Serial killer had dumped headless bodies deccanherald.com ↗
Wikipedia — Chandrakant Jha en.wikipedia.org ↗
The Daily Jagran — Delhi serial killer arrested again after fleeing during parole thedailyjagran.com ↗
Deccan Herald
Wikipedia
The Daily Jagran

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