Daijiworld Media Network – New Delhi

New Delhi, May 20: Notorious serial killer Devender Sharma, infamously known as ‘Doctor Death’, was arrested by the Delhi Police after he absconded during parole in August 2023. He was nabbed from an ashram in Rajasthan’s Dausa, where he had been posing as a priest under a fake identity, officials said on Tuesday.

Sharma, a 67-year-old Ayurveda practitioner, had been convicted in multiple murder cases and had been serving life imprisonment in Tihar Jail. His grisly crimes include dumping bodies in the crocodile-infested Hazara Canal in Uttar Pradesh’s Kasganj to eliminate evidence.

“Between 2002 and 2004, Sharma and his aides lured taxi and truck drivers with fake trips, killed them, and sold their vehicles. Over 50 such killings are suspected,” said DCP Aditya Gautam. A Gurugram court had also sentenced him to death in one of the cases.

Sharma first came into the spotlight in the late '90s for his role in an illegal kidney transplant racket, having arranged more than 125 illegal transplants across multiple states. His descent into crime began after financial losses in a gas dealership deal in 1994.

Police said Sharma had a history of parole violations. After jumping parole in 2020, he stayed missing for seven months before being caught. He again vanished after being granted parole in June 2023.

Following a six-month manhunt across cities including Delhi, Jaipur, and Agra, police finally tracked him down to the Dausa ashram.

Sharma has at least 27 criminal cases to his name, involving murder, robbery, and kidnapping, and remains one of India’s most chilling serial killers.