About the Book: Indias Most Dangerous Serial Killer: Shankaria Kanpatimar
Shankaria Kanpatimar was hanged in the Jaipur Central Jail on 15 May 1979. In
eighteen months, he murdered nearly 70 people across Rajasthan, Punjab and
Haryana-making him Indias first recorded serial killer. He committed crimes in
the most "brutal and dastardly fashion",while the motive of killings being
theft. He entered his victims house naked, killed with whatever object lay at
hand, eat, smoked bidis, bathed and left only with the cash he found. In one of
the murders, he managed to find only two rupees in the house. He came to be
known as Kanpatimar