Police arrest serial killer’s associate from Aligarh in U.P.

Rajender’s arrest came days after Delhi police arrested Sharma, an Ayurvedic practitioner who is suspected to have been involved in 50 murders.
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His criminal record includes 12 serious cases, including murder, robbery, and kidnapping. He is also wanted in four more murder cases in Delhi and Gurugram in which he had never been arrested.

“All concerned police stations have been informed about his arrest, and further legal proceedings are underway,” said the officer.

However, Rajender’s arrest came days after Delhi police arrested Sharma, an Ayurvedic practitioner who is suspected to have been involved in 50 murders, from Rajasthan’s Dausa on May 19. Sharma, during interrogation, revealed Rajender’s name to the police and stated that he was still at large. Sharma also alleged that the 59-year-old Kasimpur resident played a crucial role in their criminal operations, said a senior police officer.

A police team began tracking Rajender across Aligarh, Jaipur, and Delhi, following multiple leads. He was finally located in a remote area of Kasimpur, where he lived under a false identity and worked as a security guard at a local pump house.

Rajender, an integral part of Sharma’s crime syndicate in the early 2000s, targeted truck and taxi drivers. The gang was known for murdering people and dumping them in a crocodile-infested canal in Kasganj in Uttar Pradesh, said the police.

Police said Rajender joined Sharma’s gang in 2003. In 2007, he was arrested in Jaipur under a false name in connection with a murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. For 14 years, he served the jail term without revealing his involvement in other crimes, which are linked to Sharma.

59-year-old Rajender was declared a proclaimed offender in a 2004 case of murder, kidnapping, conspiracy, and destruction of evidence registered at the Sarita Vihar police station.