When Chandrakant would visit us
he would tell us about his activities in Delhi.
And people from the village who worked with him
He started committing murders after moving to Delhi.
he blatantly played with people's lives.
If the whole village is afraid to talk about it,
and if he himself says that he'll go crazy
if he doesn't commit a murder,
that means it must have been much more in number.
And much more must have happened in his life.
All of them must have remained undetected.
People would say that he has murdered around 44 people.
He specifically despised people who lied.
When I learned that Chandrakant was committing murders in Delhi,
It made us realize that we needed to keep our distance from him.
He killed Umesh Jha, an innocent man.
He also killed a man named Kapooridas.
He had no bad habits.
Once Champadevi, Chandrakant, and his brother Kalanand
They took me along with them.
After having a conversation at length with Kapooridas,
One evening, Kapooridas stepped out
to run some errands in the market.
Chandrakant and his brother were already there hiding in the bushes
waiting for Kapooridas to arrive.
Kapooridas lost his life.
He might even kill me someday just like he killed Muralidhar in Delhi.
Word spread here
He worked as a laborer back then in Delhi.
He would lift and carry weights.
He used to drive a rickshaw.
He would enter the market at night, break into the stores,
carry out robberies, and drop out of sight.
and another man named Chandan Kumar Mishra.
After that, I vowed not to do this kind of work.
He even tried to kill me once.
I refused to carry out robberies with him.
I decided to continue working where I used to work previously.
I told him I'd rather work hard all day than steal with him.
He didn't quite like what I told him, so he tried to kill me.
But before he could do anything to me, I jumped off the building.
I thought I'd rather have a broken arm or leg than end up getting killed by him.
So…
There's one thing I'm very sure of.
and figured who was going to be his next likely victim.
And then he must have groomed them.
That is what it looks like.
In that grooming process,
Maybe he figured how many days he would have to groom them.
and how everything was to be handled.
He probably did it in such a manner
that it looked like he was giving care to them
in different forms.
But actually, his intention was not to do all that.
He always used to kill people only after tying them up.
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to physically feel brutalized.
You are almost gasping for your own life.
I may feel guilty, but I don't have remorse.
That is where he now understands both
the lifeless and the life… Vulnerables.
When they undergo
an extreme amount of violence and torture.
My name is Bhidu Jadhav.
I live in Ghosai.
I'm 67 years old.
Chandrakant Jha once told me
So, he rented another house in the same locality
He took me to Mangolpuri
When we got there and Chandrakant Jha
opened the door…
Murali Shah was also a resident of our village. We knew each other.
I was shaken.
He took me into the room
and clicked a picture of his victims along with me.
Chandrakant Jha had maintained a photo album.
of all the people he had murdered.
If he had caught a victim and there were others in the room,
And if anyone tried to intervene, they'd also get caught up as accomplices.
I was famished. I hadn't eaten anything.
as he was going to kill me anyway.
Murali Shah also took
the camera that Chandrakant used.
There was a man named Ashok Shah,
This man right here is Murali Shah.
Murali Shah had taken the camera
he never thought of printing out the pictures.
And after he died,
his second wife printed out the pictures.
or had wounded eyes.
Their lips were sewed.
Their lips were sealed shut. It was in the photograph.
You know, these three men in the picture
were all murdered.
It happened in Delhi.
Ashok Shah had shown the pictures in the album…
to the entire village.
His first interest is to silence the person.
Now there's one thing that I'm afraid of.
I've shared all the information I had about Chandrakant
What if he comes after me
I really hope that he gets sentenced to death
or simply rots in jail till he's dead.
It's unbelievable because I've never even slapped my child
for doing something wrong.
The album also had a photograph of the people of our village.
because they were in the picture too.
They were just scared, that's all.
If the whole village is afraid to talk about it,
if he doesn't commit a murder,
All of them must have remained undetected.
See, if three of them could sit like this…
They're physically disabled to do anything with him.
After all, he's alone.
He's just one single person.
If three individuals can be controlled that way,
Terror, maybe verbally or through actions,
or maybe through communication.
Once the terror is communicated,
half of your work
is already done.
Then he can decide and choose whom he has to finish and whom he has to let go.
If you could put up this photo as fresh evidence before the court,
the police can still take back the custody
and the court can order further investigation.
At least that should be done.
Because once the investigation process begins to proceed,
many more unidentified
Well, that will also help Chandrakant
either given life imprisonment or they're sentenced to death.
We have requested the court for a minimum sentence,
whereas the prosecution has requested maximum punishment
as this case falls in the rarest of rare category.
Chandrakant Jha has been accused of committing eight murders in Delhi.
He has been convicted for three of the murders so far.
And on Tuesday, he was given a death sentence for another case.
But due to lack of evidence
Chandrakant once quoted,
"The Bhagavad Gita says that it is not a sin to kill a bad person."
Because as per the prosecution's story,
the people who were murdered
weren't good people either.
Someone was a thief…
Someone was a womanizer…
Someone used to trouble him by eating meat and leaving unwashed utensils around him.
So, maybe…
he took offense at them.
One of my inferences was that maybe he is accepting his guilt.
But he never admitted his mistakes or accepted his guilt openly.
It's not morally correct to be so rigid.
But Chandrakant had extreme opinions and he was a stubborn man.
he genetically inherited,
from his parents,
some amount of violent environment,
violence, and the environment he had seen.
of a gene or an allele in his body which has given rise
to him getting attracted to violence.
but it wouldn't necessarily grow into a plant…
in the process of cultural and social environment conditioning
It may be in the prison, maybe in the custody,
maybe in his own social environment where he lived
with the kind of people around him.
I must say that the man already knows a lot about how investigations are done.
And he has a sharp memory.
All of us have been surprised at the amount of knowledge he possesses.
if he gets convicted in court.
Some of the questionnaires he prepared would weaken his case.
Convincing him to refrain from doing something was very difficult.
He was kept in prison during his trials. There were no complaints about him.
I had a feeling that he was doing that intentionally
He wanted to show he had a clean record
and that he didn't even pick a fight with anybody.
He wanted to practice good behavior.
He kept up good behavior in prison and also changed his handwriting. So…
So, this meaningful engagement…
According to him, this is a meaningful engagement
because the day he wins, he will win over the system as well.
And his identity will be established.
He bought some groceries for me.
He bought me a stove and even water.
He asked me to cook food
while he was gone.
My name is Bharati.
Anil Mandal was my husband.
and started selling garlic and other vegetables.
and sometimes he went to Punjab for agricultural work.
Anil sent me over to my parents' house for a few days.
When I came back, I found out that
someone had framed him for some criminal activity.
When I came back home, he was locked up in prison.
Someone else had to bail him out.
He returned home in the evening
"I'm going to the court, but I'll be back soon."
But he never returned home.
in search of work or to make some money.
Or maybe he was put behind bars once again.
I thought he would at least get enough food in prison,
I thought if my father was in prison,
he would be alive.
Maybe the police weren't letting him go.
So, I started working in the market.
I started rag picking. I would sell bottles.
Or scraps of vegetables.
The money that I earned covered up the house rent
as well as the bribe that cops took from us for visiting.
I used to earn only around five to ten rupees after working all day.
I could never earn more than that no matter how hard I tried.
So, she used to take me with her.
Every time we went there,
and told us to visit some other day.
We went to Rohini in search of Anil.
We tried to look for him in every possible place.
They took at least two thousand or so every time we went there in search of Dad.
We were just being played.
It’s only been three years
since the police informed us that Anil was dead.
or even the date is unknown.
My mother told me that
they should have at least let us identify the body once.
If the police had already made the death certificate,
that means they had identified the body.
It couldn't be made otherwise.
Now we just believe in the certificate and what the police have told us
-about Anil being murdered. -Yes.
Couldn't they inform us about it earlier?
What was the big deal in letting us know?
-We have stopped thinking about all this. -Yes.
-We have left it in the past. -We don't think about it anymore.
We wanted to hear what you knew about all this.
We have left all this behind.
Delhi is a place
where a lot of migrants come to settle down.
These migrants come to Delhi
to earn a living, and not to die.
They do not have enough money
or a family to care for them.
They didn't have anyone influential to help them out.
And that was really unfair.
Just because they were migrants, they went unnoticed.
It may not be the same in this case,
but there are many cases where such things go unnoticed.
I am not a mental health expert,
but I can tell you using common sense as a social scientist that
and live in cramped conditions.
Some don't even have a roof over their heads.
Most of the Bihari migrants are working in the lowest occupation.
segment of society,
we often tend to shut our eyes.
and this person is going to get convicted.
He perhaps could have done it.
Chandrakant's case was lost.
Similarly, several hundred cases get lost every year.
And the high-profile cases are
what the media and journalists focus on.
because of their background,
we often tend to lose focus.
if you can go deep enough to try to understand him and help him out,
pro-social behavior,
and a pro-social value which can give can an identity to him.
Otherwise, he will not change.
for me to be hopeful for people like this is…
To become what he is permanently.
this kind of people to rehabilitation programs,
People had forgotten about this case.
He has been out on parole,
without any hesitation.
I could have done it.
How can I spare someone
At the present moment, his isolation,
whether he should be allowed to go or he should not be allowed to go.
If you ask legally, then yes, it is his right and he should be allowed.