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Alleged serial killer taken to Pune

BANGALORE: A police team from Bangalore on Saturday took Chandrakanth S. Sharma (46) to Pune to ascertain the claims made by him that he murdered 21 people in Maharashtra between 1978 and 1981.

According to the police, Sharma confessed to these killings after the Kempe Gowda Nagar police arrested him, his wife and son on charges of murdering a retired Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM) engineer S.V. Raghavan here on January 10, 2008.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Alok Kumar told The Hindu on Saturday that it would take them at least three days to verify the claims made by Sharma as these murders had taken place over two decades ago.

With the assistance of the Pune police, Sharma would be taken to those places where the murders were reportedly committed. As Sharma had said that he murdered a few people at Hotel Amarapali and Delhi Durbar in Pune, the police would question the proprietors of these hotels to verify his claims. Though there was a hotel called Amarapali in Pune, it was not located at the place claimed by Sharma. It needed to be ascertained if the hotel had been shifted, Mr. Kumar said.

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