ALigarh News: Aligarh's notorious serial killer 'Doctor Death' Devendra Sharma has been arrested by Delhi Police from Dausa. Devendra is accused of more than 100 murders and 125 illegal kidney transplants. He used to destroy evidence by feeding the dead bodies to crocodiles. He escaped from parole in 2020.

A resident of village Puraini of Chharra police station area of ​​Aligarh and notorious serial killer 'Doctor Death' alias Devendra Sharma has been arrested by Delhi Police from Dausa, Rajasthan. 67-year-old Devendra has serious allegations of more than 100 murders and more than 125 illegal kidney transplants. He is a history-sheeter in Chharra police station and the first case against him was registered in Barla police station in 1994.

Devendra Sharma obtained a BAMS degree from Bihar in 1984 and opened Janta Clinic in Bandikui, Rajasthan. He took to crime after being duped of Rs 11 lakh in a gas agency dealership deal in 1994. He started a fake gas agency and from 1998 to 2004, along with Dr Amit of Gurugram, ran an illegal kidney transplant racket, smuggling more than 125 kidneys. He used to get Rs 5-7 lakh for each transplant.

Horrifying series of murders

Between 2002 and 2004, Devendra, along with his gang, killed more than 100 taxi and truck drivers in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan. He would call drivers on the pretext of fake trips, strangle them to death and dump the bodies in Hazara canal in Kasganj, where crocodiles would destroy the evidence. He would sell the looted vehicles for Rs 20-25 thousand in Kasganj or Meerut. He confessed that he had stopped counting after 50 murders.

Arrest and parole abscondence

In 2004, Devendra was arrested on charges of kidney racket and serial killing. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in seven murder cases in Delhi, Rajasthan and Haryana and death penalty in one case in Gurugram. After being released on 20-day parole in 2020, he remained absconding for seven months. After being released on two-month parole in 2023, he did not return to jail and hid in the disguise of a priest in an ashram in Dausa. Delhi Police arrested him from the ashram.

This is how the police caught him

The Crime Branch of Delhi Police conducted a search operation in Aligarh, Jaipur, Delhi, Agra and Prayagraj. Devendra's location was traced from mobile recharge. The police kept a watch on the Dausa ashram for a week and a jawan contacted him on the pretext of treatment. After confirmation, he was arrested. In 2004, when Devendra's activities were exposed, his wife and children left him. One of his sons works in Switzerland and the other in Kerala. The local people are shocked by his activities.