CHANDRAKANT JHA: Serial killer who challenged Delhi police by throwing bodies outside jails

Chandrakant Jha is a 46-year-old man who basically belongs to Madhepura in Bihar.

Jha was the man who brutally killed the victims, then dismembered them and threw the bodies outside the Tihar jail in Delhi.

He left handwritten notes with bodies and also made phone calls. This was his style, an attempt to throw challenge at the police.

Jha finally landed in the police custody and is now facing trial in several cases. In two cases, the court has so far given him death penalty, 'to hanged by his neck till death' while he has got life imprisonment in one case.

The serial killer had committed the acts with such brutality that he even felt no sympathy for those close to him.

Jha killed Upendra, 19, a UP native, who lived with him. After killing him, Jha cut Upendera's head, limbs and even genitals. The remaining body (torso) was thrown outside the Tihar jail. The remaining body parts were placed in cartons and thrown at different places in Delhi.

One arm of the victim was found outside Tis Hazari court, a leg and genitals at Loni while another body part at Pitampura. Apart from Upendra Singh, Jha killed two other persons in the same period 2006-2007. They were Dalip and Anil Mandal alias Amit.

Jha was so over-confident that he wrote letters to police, promising that he would send more such gifts (dead bodies) every 15 days. When the body parts were found, the DNA tests showed that they belonged to same person. During investigation police found that when Upendra's relative asked Jha about the missing youths whereabouts, Jha had said, 'He went, where he should have been sent to'.

Jha faces four other murder cases against him. Court held that his actions clearly suggested that he was a threat to society and beyond possibility of reform. The defence lawyer's had pleaded that he had five daughters and was an asthmatic who was behind bars for five years.

In fact, Chandrakant Jha would invite people after befriending them. He would initially care for them. But later he would get annoyed with them. The annoyance levels reached such heights that he would kill them in the most barbaric fashion.

The court considered the murder of Upendra as a rarest of rare case and held him guilty. Jha's mind needs to be studied by psychologists and criminologists, so as to understand the mind of such killers who simply kill human beings, almost as if they do it for fun.