[suspenseful music]
[Akhliesh] When Chandrakant visited us here,
he told us about his work and activities in Delhi.
And people from the village who worked with him
[suspenseful music]
[tense music]
The murders started after moving to Delhi.
[Devnarayan] He played with people's lives.
[man groaning]
[Dr. SL Vaya] If the whole village is fearing to talk about it,
and if he himself says that, "I'll go crazy if I don't commit…
a murder," then…
that means, it must have been many more in number,
and a lot more must have happened in his life.
All of this must have remained undetected.
People said that Chandrakant had murdered around 44 people.
[ominous music]
[theme music]
He despised people who lied.
[blows]
When I learned that Chandrakant was committing murders in Delhi,
It was terrorizing and made us realize
that we should not be in his company anymore.
He had killed Umesh Jha who was an innocent man.
And also murdered Kapooridas.
[ominous music]
He had no bad habits whatsoever.
Once Champadevi, Chandrakant, and his brother Kalanand,
After having a conversation with Kapooridas,
[suspenseful music]
[Devnarayan] Then one evening,
Kapooridas stepped out to buy some vegetables from the market.
These two were already there, hiding in the bushes,
waiting for him to arrive.
And because of this, Kapooridas lost his life.
He could even kill me someday just like he had killed Muralidhar.
[music intensifies]
[muffled screaming, gurgling]
There was a fight between them,
[ominous music]
[Sanjay] Back then, he worked as a laborer.
He lifted and carried weights.
He used to ride a cart rickshaw.
to loot Television sets from showrooms.
He used to enter the market at night
and break into these stores, and then drop out of sight.
[ominous music]
along with Chandrakant Jha and Chandan Kumar Mishra.
And after that, I swore to stay away from such activities forever.
He had tried to kill me as well…
when I refused to carry out those robberies with him.
I decided to continue working where I used to work earlier.
I was satisfied with what I was doing earlier,
and I would prefer to continue doing that all my life.
He didn't quite like what I told him, so he tried to kill me.
I decided to jump off the two-story building.
Jump off the building.
So…
[Dr. SL Vaya] One thing I'm very sure of,
to see who can be a likely prey for him.
[Dr. SL Vaya] And then he has groomed them.
That is what it all looks like.
In that grooming process,
So, maybe the number of days I have to groom you,
how you have to be handled, I will decide everything."
That might come across as a way of caring for them
or looking after them, helping them out…
in different ways.
But actually, his intention was none of these things.
[ominous music]
He always killed people only after tying them up.
SITA RAM
[knife slashing]
[water sloshing]
Almost like you are 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 that is vulnerable,
as they undergo an extreme amount of violence and torture.
[muffled screaming]
[suspenseful music]
[muffled groaning]
[suspenseful music fades]
[blood sloshing]
My name is Bhidu Jadhav.
I live in Ghosai.
Age is 67.
Chandrakant once told me that he had…
He rented another house in the same area
But actually, on the pretext of wanting help to move his things,
he took me to Mangolpuri.
[ominous music]
his room's door,
Murali Shah and I were neighbors,
but I did not know who the other two men were.
[suspenseful music]
[Bhidu] I was too scared.
Chandrakant then took me inside the room, after which,
he clicked my photo along with the victims.
[ominous music]
[camera shutter clicks]
Chandrakant Jha had made a photo album.
-[shutter clicks] -…he had murdered.
-[shutter clicks] -[Akhilesh] All his victims.
What he did was that if he had caught a victim to kill
then he would take a picture of all of them together in the same place.
I was hungry, extremely famished, as I had not eaten anything.
Before killing me, please feed me something."
[tense music]
[door opens]
…Chandrakant had kept his camera on the shelf
and Murali Shah then quickly took it.
A man named Ashok Shah,
[Ashok] This man right here is Murali Shah.
While Murali Shah was alive,
he never thought of printing out the pictures.
But after Murali Shah's death,
his second wife got the prints of those pictures.
[ominous music]
bruised and wounded eyes.
Their lips were sewed.
[Ashok] He must have done it. It was in the photograph.
These men you see here in the picture,
all three were brutally tortured
and murdered in Delhi.
Ashok Shah used to show all these photographs…
to the entire village.
[ominous music]
His first interest is to silence the person.
Sir, one thing that I'm petrified of…
is that I have shared all the information I had about him,
Chandrakant Jha was the main culprit.
What if he comes after me once he is released from prison?
I really hope that he is sentenced to death
or simply rots in jail until he is dead.
[mumbles]
Believe me, even a child has never ever been smacked by me.
[ominous music]
[insects chirping]
The album had photographs of the people of our village.
because they were in the photo, too.
What else could they be afraid of?
[Dr. SL Vaya] If the whole village is fearing to talk about it,
I lose my mind."
[Dr. SL Vaya] All of this must have remained undetected.
See, if three of them could sit like this,
physically disabled to do anything to him.
After all, he is a single man.
One single person.
So you see, if these three individuals can be controlled that way,
It maybe created verbally, maybe through actions,
or maybe through communication.
Once the terror is communicated,
half your… work is done.
Then he can decide and choose who he wants to finish
and who he wants to let go of.
If you could put up this photo as fresh evidence before the court,
the police can still take back the custody
and after that, the court can order further investigation.
At least that should be done.
Because once further investigation begins,
then, many more unidentified and, uh, till now,
See that? That will also help him…
the accused is either given life imprisonment or death sentence.
We have requested the court to give him a minimum sentence.
as it's a "rarest of the rare case."
[reporter 1] Chandrakant has been accused of committing eight murders in Delhi.
He has been convicted for three of the murders so far.
On Monday, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in one of the cases.
And on Tuesday, he was given death sentence for another case.
But due to lack of evidence,
[tense music]
[ominous music]
[Deepak] Chandrakant once quoted that,
"The Bhagavad Gita says it is not a sin to kill a bad person.
Because even as per the prosecution,
the people who were murdered
weren't good people either.
Someone was stealing things,
someone was a womanizer,
someone would eat non-veg and leave the plates around him.
So, maybe…
such behavior offended him a lot.
One of my inferences was that maybe he accepts his fault.
But he never admitted to his mistakes or accepted them openly.
[ominous music]
Truth be told, it's morally not correct to be so rigid.
But Chandrakant had extreme values.
He was very stubborn, and was quite an extremist.
[ominous music]
he had genetically inherited
probably,
some amount of a violent environment, violence,
of a gene or an allele in his body that has given rise
to him getting attracted to violence.
[light switch clicks]
but it may not necessarily grow and become a plant…
may have taken place in the process
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.
[ominous music]
already knew a lot about how investigations are conducted.
And he has an extremely sharp memory.
Where he learned all these things from is quite surprising, actually.
if he got convicted by court.
[Deepak] Some of the questionnaires he prepared would weaken his case.
Convincing him to refrain from doing something was impossible.
[keys jingling]
He was kept in prison during his trials.
There were no complaints against him.
I had a feeling that he was doing this intentionally.
I didn't even pick up a fight with anybody."
His behavior was always good.
like, his behavior in the jail was good, and his handwriting had changed.
Speaking of "meaningful engagement,"
according to him, this is a meaningful engagement
And his identity is established.
[Bharati] He brought some rice and lentils from the market for me.
He bought a gas stove and even got some water for me.
He said, "Cook food for me.
I'll be back after the hearing in the court."
[suspenseful music]
[rope rattling]
[sack screeching]
My name is Bharati.
My husband's name is Anil Mandal.
We clean garlic and various other vegetables and then sell them.
and sometimes he went to Punjab for agricultural work.
Anil sent me over to my parents' house.
When I came back, I found out that someone had framed him
for some kind of criminal activity.
When I returned home, I learnt that he was in jail,
locked up.
Someone helped him to get bail.
He returned home in the evening,
I'll be back soon after the hearing in the court."
But he's still not back home since that day.
[solemn music]
or perhaps to make some money.
Or maybe, he was put behind bars once again, and if he is in jail,
at least he'll get enough food to eat there for his survival
I used to think that if my father was in prison,
he would at least be alive and not be dead.
Maybe the police weren't letting him go.
[Vijay] So, I started working at the market.
I started rag-picking. I would sell bottles also.
The money that I earned, it covered the house rent
and the bribe that the police took from us for visiting.
I used to earn about five to ten rupees after working all day.
Just five to ten rupees.
I didn't end up earning more than that. That was the maximum that I made.
Even I wanted to meet him. So she took me along with her.
Every time we went there to meet him,
"You can't see your father today. Come meet him some other day."
We went to Rohini and Tis Hazari Court in search of Anil.
We tried to look for him in every possible place
but couldn't find him anywhere.
or maybe 2,500 to pay the cops.
[Bharati] It's only been three years
since the police informed us that my husband was dead.
We don't know anything about it.
[solemn music]
[Vijay] My mother told me
that Chandrakant Jha killed my father
so that we could at least identify it, know something about it.
[Vijay] If the police had already made the death certificate,
it means that they had definitely found the body, right?
It couldn't be made otherwise.
[Bharati] Now that they have made the certificate, we have to believe
-what the police is saying that he's dead. -No, we don't.
And couldn't they tell us about it earlier?
What was the big deal in letting us know? We had nothing to do with them.
[solemn music]
We have stopped thinking about all this…
-Exactly. -…and have left it in the past.
We just don't think about it anymore.
we agreed simply because we wanted to hear
what you had to say.
[Bharati] We don't want to think about it anymore.
We have left all this behind.
[solemn music]
Delhi is a very big city,
and a lot of migrants go there to settle down.
These poor people go there to earn a livelihood
and not to die, right?
These people do not have enough money
or a family to take care for them.
And they do not belong to a well-known family.
And that is, uh, extremely unfair.
Uh, just because they are migrants, they go unnoticed.
Uh, it will not be the same in this case,
but, uh, there are many cases where such things are neglected.
[machine whirring]
[ominous music]
[scoffs] I'm not a mental health expert,
but using my common sense as a social scientist,
with four to five people in one room,
or stay in open places
Most of the Bihari migrants work in the lowest category occupations.
we often tend to shut our eyes.
And this person is going to get convicted.
He perhaps could have done it.
Chandrakant's case got lost.
Similarly, several hundred cases get lost every year.
And the high-profile cases
are what the media and us journalists, we all focus on.
because of their background,
we often tend to lose focus.
you can go deep to try and understand him and help him out,
they are the people who turn overnight.
prosocial behavior,
and a prosocial value which can give an identity to him.
Otherwise, he will not change.
for me to be hopeful for people like this
is once again, in the way he defends himself.
To become what he is permanently.
for rehabilitation programs,
[cell door closes]
People had forgotten about his case.
He's been out on parole.
[suspenseful music]
It wouldn't be a big deal.
I would have done it.
How could I spare someone who ruined my future, my existence, my entire life?
at the present moment in his isolation should be the criteria to decide
whether he should be released or should not be released.
If you ask legally, then yes, it is his right and he should be released.
to free him and let him go, he's free.
[music intensifies]
[music ends]