Satish (criminal)

Satish was sentenced to life imprisonment; the court did not find his crime the "rarest of the rare", which would have given him a death sentence. In 2008, the Punjab and Haryana High Court rejected the government of Haryana's request for a death sentence.

The police's inability to apprehend Satish led to protests and near-riots by local residents. Under pressure, police prosecuted three men in succession as the murders continued. Satish was finally arrested in 1998, when his final victim led police to him. He was convicted of twelve sexual assaults and ten murders, and is serving a life sentence.

Satish came to Bahadurgarh from Ghaziabad with his parents. He lived at the home of his father, Brij Pal, in Bahadurgarh's Netaji Nagar section. When Satish was arrested in 1998, he was 25 years old.

The murders continued, indicating that Babu was not the killer. On 16 August 1998, three months before Satish was caught and after spending thirty months in prison, 32-year-old Ram Babu was killed in prison. Om Prakash, another prisoner in the mental ward, hit him on the head with a brick and killed him.

After nearly a year of inactivity, in September 1998 Satish kidnapped a nine-year-old girl from her family's compound at night. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Suman Manjari organized a citizens' anti-crime committee to increase awareness and mobilize support for police efforts. She met with the local chamber of commerce, who posted a ₹10,000 reward for helping police catch the killer.

According to the police, Satish appeared to be a "mentally deranged sex pervert". From 10 to 23 December 1998, he was observed by Dr. Rajiv Gupta at the Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Rohtak. Gupta concluded that Satish was not psychotic, but had a "neurotic type of personality". Satish admitted committing 14 crimes, and on 22 December a magistrate determined that his confession was voluntary. Although Satish later recanted his confession, he was convicted on the basis of evidence; the details he provided of the kidnappings, rapes and murders were corroborated by other evidence. In the Aarti murder case (victim number 11), he was questioned with lie-detection expert Dr. Bibha Rani on 1 December 1998 and his description of the crime matched the existing evidence.

On 22 June 1997, Satish killed seven-year-old Manju. On 10 July the police arrested Shankar Kumar of Begusarai in Bihar, alleging that he had attempted to abduct Aarti (a young girl from Subhash Nagar in Bahadurgarh). According to Senior Superintendent of Police A. S. Chawla, Shankar admitted kidnapping and murdering Manju.

In January 1996, Satish kidnapped and raped two girls in five days. Local residents intensified their protests, organizing bandhs, so the deputy inspector general of police (DGP) and the district superintendent of police (SP) remained in Bahadurgarh to supervise the investigation. Police explored the possibility that the killer lived in neighbouring Delhi, and involved the Delhi Police in the investigation.

Satish's first victim was Pooja, who was killed in February 1995. Since her father was employed by the Union Home Ministry, the police were under pressure to apprehend the culprit quickly. They arrested Raj Kumar (also known as Raja), saying that he had confessed to the crime. Raja was cleared after being imprisoned for 18 months.

in July 1995, while Raja was still in police custody, Satish raped and killed a seven-year-old girl. After Satish's third crime in September 1995, the police began looking for a serial killer. When the fourth girl was murdered in October 1995, angry local residents organized dharnas. Authorities transferred the local police superintendent and intensified patrolling in the area. The police asked parents to keep an eye on their children (especially young girls) and report any suspicious persons, but there was no progress in the investigation.

Satish Kumar (born c. 1973), better known simply as Satish, is a convicted Indian pedophile and serial killer who was active in Bahadurgarh in Haryana from 1995 to 1998. He admitted kidnapping and attempting to rape fourteen girls, murdering ten. Police confirmed Satish's involvement in twelve cases, including the ten murders. Since his victims were all five to nine years of age, he is also known as the Bahadurgarh baby killer.