Psycho killer Singh Raj in Faridabad police custody.
A Faridabad courtroom has convicted 58-year-old Singh Raj of murdering a younger lady from Bhupani. The case, heard by Extra District and Classes Choose Purushottam Kumar, will see him sentenced on 21 January. The sufferer was killed after Singh Raj molested her; when she threatened to tell her household, he strangled her and dumped her physique within the Agra Canal. He’s accused of murdering six folks, together with three minor ladies who resisted molestation.
Younger lady goes lacking
On 2 January 2022, a lacking individual report was filed at Outdated Faridabad police station relating to the younger lady. Her relative, Poonam, knowledgeable the police that her niece had gone to the Outdated Faridabad market however didn’t return house. Police registered a lacking grievance and started an investigation, which revealed that the final name within the lady’s name historical past had been made to Singh Raj.
Extra District Classes Choose Purushottam Kumar’s courtroom heard this case.
Arrest and confession
Primarily based on the cell quantity, police detained Singh Raj, a resident of Jasana, for questioning. Throughout interrogation, he confessed to killing the younger lady, admitting that he had molested her and panicked when she threatened to tell her household. Fearing publicity, he had known as her on 31 December 2022 and requested her to fulfill close to Sector-17, the place he strangled her to loss of life and dumped her physique into the Agra Canal. Police later recovered the physique from bushes close to the canal in Sector-17 primarily based on Singh Raj’s identification.
Trial and proof
The case was prosecuted by Deputy District Legal professional (DDA) Rekha JS Jangra, representing the sufferer’s household. Through the four-year-long trial, 26 witnesses have been offered. Nonetheless, there was no eyewitness to the act of homicide or disposal of the physique. A cellphone name recording turned the important thing piece of proof, through which Singh Raj despatched an audio message to the sufferer’s grandmother, admitting to killing her granddaughter. The courtroom relied closely on this recording to convict Singh Raj. The Outdated Faridabad police station performed the investigation.
Outdated Faridabad police station was investigating this case.
Singh Raj: from safety guard to serial killer
Singh Raj, who labored as a safety guard at a non-public hospital in Sector-16, got here underneath police suspicion in the course of the investigation of different lacking individual instances. Throughout interrogation, his involvement in 5 further murders got here to mild, together with the killing of three minor ladies. It was additionally revealed that he had killed his uncle and cousin, which led to him being labelled a serial killer.
Throughout remand interrogation, Singh Raj confessed to killing three minor ladies. In 2019, he molested the daughter of a tea vendor and killed her when she resisted. In August 2020, he killed a 12-year-old woman working within the hospital for resisting molestation, and in June 2021, he murdered one other minor woman employed as a cleaner within the hospital underneath related circumstances.
Whereas Singh Raj had additionally confessed to killing his uncle and cousin in 1987, police couldn’t discover any concrete proof, and he was subsequently acquitted in each instances. He’s at present going through three further POCSO instances in numerous courts.
