Chandrakant Jha is an Indian greengrocer, plastic seller and serial killer. He is known as ‘The Butcher of Delhi’ for brutally killing his friends.
Wiki/Biography
Chandrakant Jha was born in 1967 (age 55 years; in 2022) in Ghosai, Madhepura, Bihar. He studied up to class 8.
Physical appearance
Height: 5′ 10″
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Family
Parents & Siblings
His father, Radhey Kant Jha, worked in the irrigation department. His mother, Champadevi, was a school teacher. He has five brothers named Nityanand, Indranand, Kalanand, Sadanand, and Deepak Kumar out of which one works in the Central Reserve Police Force and the other works in the Bihar State Police.
Wife & Children
During his teenage years, he married a girl from his village, and within a year of his marriage, he broke up with her. In 1997, when he was in Delhi, he met a girl named Mamata in his area. They both fell in love with each other and got married. The couple has five daughters. In an interview, while talking about Jha, Mamata said,
We have a love marriage. He is tall and handsome and very intelligent. He is 13 years older than me. His parents were big people whose father retired from the government, and his mother was a school teacher. I don’t know how much he studies, but he likes to read newspapers.”
Greengrocer becomes Serial Killer
After passing class 8, he decided to stop studying and start earning. In search of a job, he moved to Delhi from his village. He then started doing some odd jobs like selling vegetables and plastics. His early years in Delhi were not very welcoming. He was once attacked by miscreants from Delhi, who stabbed him in the chest. His friend helped him, and he took him to a nearby hospital after tying a cloth around his chest. Jha then decides to take a Karate class to defend himself, and later, he kills the bad guy who attacked him. According to sources, the local police at the time used to demand money from the poor vegetable sellers in mandi vegetable, and the union leaders in the vegetable market used to unfairly cut the sellers’ wages. In 1998, Chandrakant protested against the actions of the union leaders, who unfairly treated the poor vendors. Jha’s verbal fight with the union leader ‘Pandit’ (well-known in the area) turned into a physical fight, and during the fight, Pandit was injured. Pandit took it as an insult and filed a complaint against Jha at the local police station. He even dragged Jha’s wife in the incident and filed a complaint against her. Jha and his wife were arrested and sent to jail. In the jail, a havaldar named Balbir Singh brutally abused him and ignored his confession. Jha was even stripped in front of other prisoners.
Old photo of Chandrakant Jha
The incident shocks Jha, and he later develops the belief that violence is the only answer to injustice. This belief completely changed him, and soon he began to develop aggressive & angry traits. Reportedly, after the incident, he shifted his wife and daughter to another place, and he started living alone in JJ Colony, Haiderpur, Delhi. By then, Jha had started earning a decent income, and he used to help migrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar get jobs and accommodation in Delhi. He used to feed them in his house and take care of them like his own children, but he watched them closely and monitored their activities. He used to get angry about small things like eating non-vegetarian food, smoking, drinking, and having an affair. He lost his temper over such issues and ended up killing the person (the person doing such activities). His first murder was in 1998 when he killed Mangal, alias Aurangzeb, in Adarsh Nagar. He was also arrested for the same, but due to lack of evidence, he was released in 2002. A year later, he killed his friend Shekhar for consuming alcohol. After the murder, he dumped the body somewhere in Alipur, Delhi. In November 2003, he killed another friend named Umesh. Jha thinks that Umesh is lying and betraying and for this he kills him. He dumped Umesh’s body near gate number 1 of Tihar Jail, Delhi.
Photograph of the victim killed by Chandrakant Jha
According to Jha, he wanted to challenge the Delhi Police and therefore, he did so. In November 2005, he killed Guddu for smoking ganja and dumped her body near Sulabh Sauchalya in Mongol Puri, North West Delhi. In October 2006, he killed Amit (one of his allies) for being a woman. He dumped his body in front of Tihar Jail. In 2007, he committed two more murders of Upender (for having an affair with Jha’s daughter) and Dalip (for eating non-vegetarian food). According to media sources, he used to cut off the heads, limbs, and private parts of victims and dump them in various parts of Delhi, just to confuse the Delhi Police. He also put a note with the dead body to challenge the Delhi police. The note read,
Until now I have faced cases of invalidity, but this time I really committed murder. You people won’t be able to catch me, I’m not afraid to open the case. If you can catch me in this murder, then catch me and show me, your father and brother-in-law, CC.”
Chandrakant Jha’s note to Delhi Police
One of Chandrakant Jha’s notes to the Delhi Police
Reportedly, he follows the same pattern in all his murders. He once killed his friends after 8pm and ate in the same place where the bodies were kept with blood spilled on the floor. He used to throw victims’ heads in the river Yamuna because he thought it would give them moksha. Chandrakant was arrested by the local police several times from 1998 to 2002, but due to lack of evidence, he was released. After almost 6 years, after his last murder, he was arrested by Delhi Police with relevant evidence. He was found guilty of three murders for which he was fined Rs 20,000 and sentenced to death by the Rohini Court, Delhi. During his trial in court, Jha said that he did not regret the murder, and that his revenge on the Delhi Police, who persecuted and punished him for the crime, he never did. He also said that he had become a master of body shredding. In 2016, the Rohini Court, Delhi, reduced the death sentence to life imprisonment.
Chandrakant Jha while going to the court for the hearing
During an interview, while talking to the report, a Delhi Police official said,
Jha has some psychological problems that lead him to commit heinous crimes. Jha’s first mistake was sending a letter to the police after leaving the body of his fourth victim (Amit) in front of Tihar on October 20. Jha had blamed former Additional Deputy Commissioner Manish Agarwal and Head Constable Balbir Singh in the letter for forcing him to resort to the massacre. In the letter, Jha also confessed to having committed a murder in November 2003 and dumped the body near Tihar. It proved that he had already left Tihar in November 2003, so we had to find someone who had been deposited before 2003.”
They further shared how Jha was arrested,
Jha made another mistake by contacting the Hari Nagar SHO immediately after disposing of the body on October 20. We made sure the SHO talked to the killer as long as possible and got more leads. The conversation lasted for seven minutes. Our next clue is to compare the handwriting on the note found with the corpse and the externes handwritten statement. We suspect Jha is the killer but the difficult part is identifying his hideout as he changes his address every two weeks. We know of at least four hideouts: Yamuna Vihar, Alipur, Badola village and Haidarpur. Our last clue is that he drives a rickshaw attached to a scooter. We combed all four places and finally found him in Alipur when he was eating halwa with his children.”
Facts/Trivia
- Chandrakant Jha was born in a wealthy family. His parents were working, and they could not pay much attention to their children. Jha always felt the absence of his parents. He also used to hate his parents for not taking care of his food and studies. Her mother’s nature was very aggressive, and their neighbors used to fear her. As a child, Jha made a belief that aggression could make him strong.
- In July 2022, the Netflix series ‘Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi’ was released about the brutal crimes committed by Chandrakant Jha. According to the series, Jha was granted parole in 2022.
Predators of India-Butchers of Delhi
Categories: Biography
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