Ahmedabad Times

A 28-year-old man, arrested on Thursday for allegedly sodomising and killing a manufacturing facility employee, has claimed he compelled almost 50 folks into having intercourse with him over the previous few years regardless of being HIV-positive, Madhya Pradesh Police mentioned.

In line with investigators, the suspect mentioned he had evaded legislation enforcement for thus lengthy as a result of his victims, whom he focused late at evening on Bhopal’s streets, by no means filed police complaints in opposition to him.

The employee’s physique was discovered on Could 24. “Police discovered the lifeless physique of a person who used to work in a manufacturing facility at Mandideep,” Katara Hills police station City Inspector Sunil Dubey mentioned.

“We have been treating it as a homicide case, however throughout interrogation, the accused knowledgeable us that he had repeatedly sodomised the deceased on the pretext of serving to him discover a good resort. When the deceased threatened to file a police criticism, he hit him 3 times with a stone and killed him. He took the deceased’s cell phone and bought it to a different individual,” he mentioned.

The cell phone helped police hint and arrest the accused, Dubey added.

Police at the moment are tracing the survivors after the accused examined HIV-positive on Friday following a medical examination.

“He mentioned he was by no means caught as a result of folks have been too ashamed to report him to the police, whereas some engaged with him voluntarily. Police at the moment are making an attempt to establish them. He was additionally lively in an LGBTQ neighborhood group and focused males whereas concealing his illness. Police at the moment are tracing the people with whom he got here into contact,” Further Commissioner of Police Rajnish Kashyap mentioned.

A case underneath Part 103 (homicide) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) has been registered, however extra sections shall be added after the investigation, the officer mentioned.