Raipur, Central India (The Statesman/ANN) – A 35-year-old serial killer who was arrested in Central India's Chhattisgarh State late last week, has so far admitted to murdering seven people, including his wife and father, a police officer said on Monday. He buried most of the victims alive; police have recovered five skeletons so far. Police have not yet established a motive, but are looking into whether the killer was involved in black magic. “It's shocking that this guy, Arun Chandrakar, who had a few pigs for livelihood, murdered his five close relatives,” Raipur's additional superintendent of police, Lal Umed Singh, told reporters. Singh said the accused, who had on Sunday admitted to killing four people, has since then revealed that he murdered three more people. “We have dug out five human bodies so far, including his 30-year-old wife Leela, with whom he had love marriage in 2008,” he said. Chandrakar, who was remanded in police custody until Jan 27, has admitted to having thrown his father, Shatrudhan Chandrakar, in front of a speeding train in the Amanaka area in Raipur in April 2007, police said. He also admitted to burying alive the owner of his rented house, Bahadur Singh Thakur (50) in January 2005 in Raipur, and killing his elderly landlady with a sharp edged weapon in March 2005. The accused, from Gunderdehi in Durg district, has a record of burglary and minor crimes. He has been in jail more than two dozen times. Police say they suspect he has been involved in more killings. “We are interrogating him, showing him photographs of several missing persons of Raipur city and asking whether he had been involved in these cases,” Singh said. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/9mnfm Tags: India, Murder, Victims Section: Latest News, South Asia
