All language subtitles for Indian.Predator.The.Butcher.of.Delhi.S01E02.HINDI.WEBRip.NF.eng

This is Chandrakant Jha, a serial killer.

Fear spread among people
in the years 2006 and 2007

when headless bodies were found
one after the other near Tihar Jail.

The murderer was constantly
threatening the police over phone calls.

This turned out to be
Chandrakant's biggest mistake...

which eventually led to his arrest.

THE CASE OF DEAD BODIES
LEFT OUTSIDE TIHAR JAIL

SUSPECTED SERIAL KILLER ARRESTED

This man was really sly and clever...

from the beginning.

As time passed, he began
murdering the people who lied to him.

If he found out someone was lying to him,

he used to kill them.

He did not look nervous.

He did not look like
somebody who was shaken

or somebody who was disturbed at all.

Perhaps, if I would have
met him on the roadside,

I would have never known

that this man could be
involved in something like that.

People have been murdered,
the investigation is in process...

the culprit has been arrested,
yet we do not have any proof.

Calling someone a murderer
doesn't make him one.

Everything needs to be proved.

Chandrakant Jha was such
an experienced killer that he knew that

the information provided to the police
would not be admissible in court.

Now, let me tell you
the actual story that he told me.

I was shocked during the interrogation.

When I asked him his name
during the interrogation,

he said, "Are you Inspector Sunder Singh?"

I asked him how he knew that.

He said to me,
"We'd spoken on the phone that day."

He said I had called him a wicked man,
and he had challenged me to get to him.

He admitted that he lost
the challenge by getting caught

and asked us to spare him.

He said if we beat him
for information, he wouldn't say a word,

but if we spared him,
he'd confess all details willingly.

I told him to speak up
and that we wouldn't beat him up.

Now, let's begin with the story
and all of the details revealed by him.

My name is Chandrakant Jha.

I am from a village named Ghosai

which is in Madhepura, Bihar.

My mother was a teacher and my father
worked in the irrigation department.

This was not his birthplace.

He had moved here with his family.

My name is Devnarayan Paswan.

I've known Chandrakant
for quite a few years now.

Since we were around six years old.

We were childhood friends.

I knew him since the time he moved here.

GHOSAI VILLAGE

His mother's name was Champadevi.

Champadevi had six sons.

The eldest son was Nityanand,
then came Indranand,

Chandranand,

Kalanand, Sadanand,
and the last one was Deepak Kumar.

My name is Akhilesh Sharma.

I was Nityanand's friend.

We studied in the same school.

We grew up together
and so, we were really close.

All of Champadevi's children were tall,

brawny,

and well-built.

I found them selfish.

My parents never
looked after me or my studies.

So I developed hatred towards them.

Later, I decided
to move out of the village

and came to Delhi.

Out of 50% of the homes in Bihar,

there's at least one member
in each family who's a migrant.

When someone migrates to a new place,
be it from Bihar or anywhere else...

But right now, let's talk about Bihar.

They always migrate
through someone's reference.

There's always someone they know
at the place they have moved to.

Someone who offered them
to migrate and work along with them.

And once they're here,

they stay with the people who have
already migrated here from their village.

And that's why

you see that people
from the same village or district

move into the same area.

Generally, they are the ones
who get them employment.

When I moved here, I saw some known faces
working in Azadpur Mandi, Delhi.

I began to work there
as a laborer and a vegetable seller.

The judge called me up and appointed me
as the amicus curiae for this case.

He asked me to meet Chandrakant
and take a brief from him.

I was given the duty
of defending him in this case.

He told me he has a family
which includes his wife and five children.

How was it possible
for him to murder someone

and dispose of their body parts
without his family knowing?

He earned a livelihood as a laborer.

He took up different jobs.

First, he worked as a vegetable seller.

But the police posed problems for him.

He alleged that the police
demanded money from him.

From the time he began selling vegetables,

the police harassed him and never
let him sell vegetables peacefully.

If he didn't sell any vegetables that day,

he wouldn't be able to feed his family.

The police start
to demand protection money

from a person who is settled
and whose business is doing well.

The lowest category of people

is the Bihari migrants.

The people of Bihar
were not equipped with local skills.

So, they used to work as rickshaw pullers,

work as laborers
for loading and unloading goods,

because these jobs
didn't require any expertise.

And hence, the attitude
of the police towards them was worse.

Chandrakant claimed that

the police had demanded
a new motorcycle from him for Diwali.

And that made him despise the police

and bear grudges against the system.

Chandrakant Jha used
to work in Azadpur Mandi.

The people who worked there

formed an association of their own
that was led by a man known as Pandit.

Chandrakant mentioned that their leader

used to take some money
from their wages every month

by telling them that it was the share that

had to be given to the police,
the MCD, and the contractor.

He even spent some of it on himself.

He felt that it was not right,
so he refused to pay money to the leader.

This enraged Pandit

and he began fighting with Chandrakant.

In the ensuing fight, the knife that
Chandrakant used for chopping vegetables

sliced Pandit's hand by mistake.

He filed a police complaint
against Chandrakant

and the police filed
a false case against him.

Chandrakant said that
his wife was also arrested along with him

even though she had nothing to do with it.

That was the moment Chandrakant decided

to murder Pandit for revenge.

And he was the same victim named "Mangal"
who was murdered in the year 1998.

I have five children.

No one in my family is educated.

I live with my family in Alipur.

Chandrakant owned a house in Alipur,

where his wife
and his kids resided permanently.

On the other hand, he lived in Haiderpur,
where he went on a murdering spree.

He told us about his pattern of killing

after we asked him a few questions
as a part of our interrogation.

Chandrakant mentioned that initially,
he used to befriend his victims,

treat them as family,

take them into confidence
and get every detail from them.

The first murder that took place
on October 20, 2006,

was that of Anil Mandal.

Anil used to spend my money.

One day, he took my daughter
outdoors even though I asked him not to.

And that made me furious.

Chandrakant tied his hands and legs

and told him that he was going
to discipline him and slapped him.

But it turned out
to be much more than that.

The next morning, he placed
the dead body on his vegetable cart

after packing it in a basket.

Later, he took the cart
with the dead body on it

and went to Outer Ring Road in Haiderpur.

He got on a DTC bus on Outer Ring Road.

The buses from Outer Ring Road
go up to Tilak Nagar.

When he reached the flyover,
he got down from the bus

and got into an auto-rickshaw.

He confirmed if Constable Balbir was there
before dropping off the dead body.

He then left the dead body
at gate number three of Tihar Jail

where Balbir was posted on duty.

TIHAR JAIL, GATE NUMBER 3

He then went to a payphone
in Nangal Raya and made a phone call.

He said that he punished people
based on their actions.

And he did this for purging their sins.

And for that reason,
Chandrakant claimed to have

severed their heads
and thrown them into River Yamuna.

The second murder
took place on 25th April 2007.

The victim was Upender.

This guy was dismissed
from the service where he was working.

So, he had a problem.
Now Chandrakant helps him.

He helps him by letting him stay
with him, and sharing his food with him.

But he said his habits were not good.

He quarreled
with Chandrakant over the phone.

I didn't like his character in general.

I took Upender with me
to my room in Haiderpur.

He used to give his victims two chances.

He'd say to them,
"Repent, or your file gets closed."

These were his exact words.
It was a pattern.

And once he told someone
their file was closed, they'd be dead.

I cut off the victim's hands,
legs, and genitals with a big knife.

I dumped one of his legs
outside Shalimar Bagh Mandir...

and the other leg in Swaroop Nagar.

I tossed one of his hands
outside Tis Hazari Court...

and dumped his head in the River Yamuna.

And the victim's torso was disposed of

outside gate number three of Tihar Jail.

GATE NUMBER 3

Chandrakant then said that he was there

when the police needed help
with unwrapping the victim's body.

He said that he would
never fail to recognize my voice,

but I failed at recognizing his.

And I asked him why he was disposing
of dead bodies outside Tihar Jail.

Chandrakant answered that
there was a head constable named Balbir

who was posted on duty at Tihar Jail

at gate number three before 2003.

He said that Balbir tortured him
when he was arrested back then.

He also cut down a portion of his meals

and stripped him naked
in front of the other prisoners.

And hence,
Chandrakant wanted him to suffer.

So, he used to drop off a body

exactly where Head Constable Balbir
was posted on duty.

Chandrakant held a lot of grudges
against the police.

He not only wanted to prove

that the police are liars

but also wanted to prove his prowess.

And that being a criminal,
he did his work perfectly,

but the police can't do their job right

and can't work sincerely.

He wanted to prove he was better.

He wanted to show
the police in a bad light

as they couldn't catch him even though
he left dead bodies in broad daylight.

And the last one was a boy named Dalip.

He was staying
with Chandrakant for 15-16 days.

But he says

his faith was completely shattered
in those days because he started lying.

And all of this resulted in him

getting invited over
to Chandrakant's place.

The third murder was of a man named Dalip,

and Chandrakant threw
his torso outside Tihar Jail.

His hands and genitals were dumped
near the gate of Tis Hazari Court.

His legs were dumped in Kishan Ganj Nala.

And lastly, he threw
his head in Ghaziabad.

He says that he draped
a small skirt of his own daughter

and wrapped a red cloth over it.

He kept it in a polythene bag and threw it

and let it flow towards the south
of River Yamuna near ISBT.

He describes the way
he handled the body parts,

and the way he killed them,

and then says
he would repeat it in the future.

So, the experience
of killing the past victims

must evoke these
sensorimotor imageries in his mind,

which is really disturbing.

It gets converted
into a rage and makes him say,

"You are responsible for me doing this."

"It is because of you I have done this."

Now, how does he address the bad feeling?

Because he also knows that
you're a very competent authority.

If I tell you, "You have treated me
like a second-grade citizen,"

you'll think, "You deserve it."

That's what you would tell me.

Though I know I deserve it, I still
expect you to treat me with humility.

If you've not done so,
my anger there is justified.

But I also can't be
continuing without doing it,

and that's the reason he says
he would do it in the future also.

I will send the next gift on time.

Your daddy, C.C.

During the interrogation process,
I questioned him

about his sign, "C.C." in the letter.

YOUR DADDY, C.C.

He said he thought of himself as the moon,

and C.C. is short
for "Chandra" which means moon.

The main purpose of him addressing
to develop his own identity

to challenge us, to see that
the law authorities would recognize

his competence and skill
in doing what he was doing

in such an efficient manner,

had failed.

So that is the time
he felt the need to prove it.

I have dropped off a dead body

right in front
of gate number 3 of Tihar Jail.

All these small clues are an indirect

way of telling,
"I failed to control myself."

Now, you're supposed to be
the competent authority from the lot

who can help me in controlling myself.

So, please control me.

"Your daddy, C.C."

He also comes from
a very deprived emotional environment,

deprived social environment,

and he has got very less cohesion

in his family relationship
with his parents.

Chandrakant's mother was a teacher.

She too was mischievous but in a bad way.

She always had the urge to start fights.

Even if you're willing to help her,

you're not going to be spared.

Sooner or later, she would blame you too.

This was how she really was.

She was always up to something.

She would threaten people
and get into conflicts.

She was always making plans.

The kids fended for themselves.

She hardly cared for them.

They were on their own,

and they managed to fill
their stomachs one way or another.

Then Chandrakant moved...

to Delhi.

So that he could earn a living.

He started acting out there as well.

He even killed a criminal in Delhi.

That man was the gangster of that area.

It was his turf,

and he was its leader.

Once, Chandrakant had a fight with him.

There was a wood stove there

which was used
by street vendors for cooking.

The goons began to kick it.

Chandrakant went up
and asked why they were doing that.

The gangster had a criminal mind,
so he couldn't think straight

and stabbed Chandrakant with a knife.

His entire chest was ripped open.

I asked him,
"Partner, how did you survive?"

He said his innards were falling out.

"I picked them up with my bare hands

and used my scarf to stop the bleeding."

"I wrapped myself up
and went to the doctor."

"The doctor treated the wound

and operated on me."

When he recovered,
he decided to learn karate.

He wanted to specialize in karate,
so he got trained in it.

He hunted the people down
who attacked him and killed them.

And that was the reason he started
torturing people and committing murders.

Before that incident, his only motive
was to work and earn a living.

He used to stay in Delhi.

And there, he worked as a laborer.

The place he worked at
was almost about four kilometers long.

And the entire place
was lined with trucks carrying goods.

Chandrakant always stopped

near the vehicle that had
the most expensive vegetables.

The rest of the people working there

used to unload the stock
and move them to the warehouse.

Chandrakant, on the other hand,

used to steal the sacks
loaded with vegetables.

He had someone helping him out.

He used to pass
the stolen sacks to his associate.

Later, at night,
he used to sell it at a high price.

His associate was responsible
for selling the vegetables at night.

Once the vegetables were sold,
Chandrakant used to take all the profit.

He'd always buy food for his associates,

but would never give them money.

So, obviously, we wanted
to know his motive.

Because all of his victims

were either from his native place,

or they met him during the course
of his journey and stay in Delhi,

or they met him in Tihar Jail,

or they met him during his judicial days
when he was produced in court.

Some of them were really needy,
and some were totally destitute

in the sense,
that they didn't even have meals to eat.

So, he would invite them over,
he would befriend them.

The unique part is that it never started
with the motive that he will murder them.

It was essentially during his

acquaintance with them,
association with them,

that he'd take offense
to certain mannerisms of these victims.

And that, of course, conflagrates
into some other small missteps

the victim makes which degenerates,

and where he has a very strong opinion
against these people.

Where he starts feeling that the person is

just a dead load
on the planet or something like that

when he reaches that stage.

So, it is very extreme.

The way he transported
the bodies is quite remarkable.

Transporting bodies 15 kilometers away
on Delhi roads is not an easy job.

Even though it was early morning hours...

There is no set pattern.
As to any season, any particular month.

But it was risky as he could be checked.

Chandrakant threw
the bodies outside Tihar Jail

because he wanted
to make this case sensational.

A press conference was held
for this case by the Joint Commissioner.

In the press conference,
the police claimed

to have solved
the cases of the dead bodies

found outside Tihar Jail.

The same killer had also
committed a murder in 1998,

but he was acquitted of that charge.

It was a great morale booster
for the police at the time

to have finally caught Chandrakant.

We had found three dead bodies,

out of which,
the first victim was Anil Mandal,

who was murdered on 20th October 2006.

The second victim was Upender,
whose body was found on 25th April 2007.

And the third victim was Dalip,
whose body was found on 18th May 2007.

Chandrakant also confessed that

in 1998, he had murdered
a man named Pandit alias Mangal.

In 2003, he had murdered
a man named Shekhar.

And in the same year, he had
murdered another man named Umesh.

And later, in 2005,
he murdered a man named Guddu.

When we cross-checked
the period, the date, the time,

and the place, we figured out
that all of these were done by him.

We solved the case
that took place in 2003.

But the other two cases,

Mukhmelpur Nala
and Mangolpuri public toilet,

were untraced as per
what we found in the records.

No investigation happened
as no arrests had been made,

but he confessed about them later.

We'd merely arrested him, and he'd
already started confessing everything.

But his words do not prove
that he is the one behind the murders.

Proper proof is also needed.

Statements given before the police
are not admissible

unless those statements lead
to the discovery of a particular object.

Then it becomes admissible.
Only that part does.

This is the law of evidence...

Of disclosures.

That something which is not

in the knowledge
of the investigating officer

which comes to the knowledge
of the investigating officer

only on the disclosure of...

This information was
privy to the accused only.

Only he could have known.

Now, the thing was
that the murders had taken place,

the investigation was in process,
and the murderer had been arrested,

but we did not have
any evidence against him.

Until there is no evidence, no action
can be taken against the accused.

Chandrakant could change
his statements at any time.

He could say that the police
beat him into a confession.

The court will believe us

only if we present conclusive evidence.

Now, the thing is that

all the parts of the dead bodies were
recovered, but their heads were missing.

He had mentioned that he threw
the victims' heads in River Yamuna.

And we had to find them at any cost.

So, we made arrangements to find it.

We had to hire boats
and divers to do the work.

We put in a lot of effort
to find those heads.

Chandrakant took us to a place

from where he tossed
the heads into the river.

So, then...

We tossed a stone into the river
of the same dimension and weight

to predict how far
the heads could have gone.

We started rowing
from that particular point.

I can say one thing for sure.

During the course of the interrogation,

I realized that he was crafty.

He gave us
every single detail of what he had done.

With that information,
we had to find evidence,

but he also intended
on misleading me with it.

We searched that entire area
for two to three days continuously.

We scoured every inch of the place,

but we failed to find any evidence.

That place was unhygienic
and surrounded by flies and mosquitoes.

The water level had dropped too.

Later, we saw two dogs
swimming in the river.

They got out of the water
on the other end.

That made me wonder...

What if the dogs have
dragged the heads out of the water

and thrown them someplace else?

We began investigating
the area around the river.

We started searching the bushes there.

Snakes were coming out
of the bushes, but we kept going.

And all of a sudden, someone said
that they had found something.

We all rushed to the spot
where the evidence was found

and found all the things
he had described in his statement.

I still had a gut feeling

that Chandrakant was misleading us
and this was all part of his plan.

Chandrakant claimed that
the head that was found

was of Dalip,
whom he had murdered on May 18th.

I was still confused

because the skull
was completely dried out.

The skull had no traces
of flesh, blood, or hair.

It couldn't have been Dalip's skull

because he was
freshly murdered on May 18th.

Had dogs scavenged on the skulls,

some amount of blood or flesh
ought to have been there.

But that skull was dry as a bone.

When we were not able to find
the heads of the other victims,

I came up with a suggestion.

I decided to put in a request.

All of the limbs

of the dead bodies as well as their skulls
should be sent to the lab for DNA tests.

We decided to carry out
a joint investigation on all three cases.

So, we sent the bodies
for the DNA test to the forensic lab.

DNA matching sounds pretty cool, but...

If you find an unclaimed body,

you will know the DNA of that person.

You will store it in the future.

Let's assume you find a body.

But you don't have
a national database of DNA

where you can just match it
and find out the identity of the person.

But it was only
when Chandrakant Jha was eventually caught

and when he was interrogated,

we could tally everything
that he was telling.

There is one more technique

where we force the accused
to prove what he's confessing.

We used that technique on Chandrakant.

After that,

Chandrakant started confessing
to every single crime with proof.

But I knew that although he's
confessing it in front of us,

he may not
necessarily confess it in court.

As even in the past,
he was acquitted for lack of evidence.

So, Chandrakant started leading us

and took our entire team
to Haiderpur Colony.

The place he took us to
had around 20-30 rooms.

And no one was living there at the moment.

Some laborers may have been staying there,

but at that time,
they had gone to the factory to work.

RAM SITA

SITA RAM

When we went inside,

there was a weird smell
coming out of that place.

The place was really messy and smelly.

And we found three knives there.

WEAPON
(KNIFE)

When we went to pick up those knives,

we noticed some bloodstains there.

We shot the video
and took photos of that area.

The forensic lab confiscated the knives
and sealed them for further investigation.

Samples of blood
from the floor were taken for testing.

The forensic lab had to scrape the floor

to retrieve the blood samples
for further investigation.

Later, he said that he had
kept a cell phone in a cupboard,

so we confiscated it
and sealed the cell phone.

Then we noticed
some names scribbled on a wall.

We asked him whose names they were.

He said that they were
contact numbers of his acquaintances.

The cell phone that we found
was his personal number

and that was the same cell phone
that we were tracking all this time.

Now we had gathered

a lot of values
of evidence to arrest him legally.

Before filing a First Information Report
against him,

we have to look
for the ingredients for the FIR.

We need to have...

We cannot just arrest anyone.

We need to have
solid grounds for arresting a person.

And now, after the interrogation,
we have grounds to arrest him

as we also had evidentiary values
that the cell phone belonged to him.

Another proof was the three knives
and the blood samples found at that place.

The things that we had found were similar
to the things that he had told us about.

At the time, we had
the grounds for his arrest.

-Come here.
-Move back.

-We wanted to ask...
-Mic!

-I want...
-Tell us.

I want to know why the media
publishes false statements?

-Answer our question. Tell us the truth!
-You answer my question first!

-I've always been telling the truth.
-What's the truth?

First, answer the question
that I asked you!

If you think that we published false news
then you might be the one lying!

Did you ask me before publishing it?

How would you know
where I have been arrested from?

-What's the truth?
-Only I know the truth.

-Why did you murder those four people?
-What?

I may have murdered more.
How would you know there were only four?

Tell us the details then.

I'll speak directly in court.