Hi All,
Here is a real life story of Raman Raghav( in brief), a serial killer. Is he an Abharhamic visionary dispensing justice or a Norman Bates or a bit of both.Comments welcome.


Raman Raghav (1929–1995) was a psychopathic serial killer who operated in the city of Mumbai (then Bombay), India in the mid-1960s. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia after his arrest. Very little is known about Raghav's early life or circumstances that led him to commit the crimes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raman_Raghav

He admitted that he had killed 23 people in 1966 along the GIP (Great Indian Peninsular Railway as the Central Railway (India) was then known) line and almost a dozen in 1968 in the suburbs. However, it is likely that he killed many more. It was his casual approach to killing that led the police to suspect that he did not remember the exact number of people he had killed.

The suspect gave his name as Raman Raghav, but old records disclosed that he had several aliases like "Sindhi Dalwai", "Talwai", "Anna", "Thambi" and "Veluswami". The suspect carried, on his person, a pair of spectacles, two combs, a pair of scissors, a stand for burning incense, soap, garlic, tea dust and two pieces of paper with some mathematical figures.

"Throughout the five interviews he showed ideas of reference and fixed and systematized delusions of persecution and grandeur. The delusions which the accused experienced were as follows:

That there are two distinct worlds, the world of 'Kanoon'( Law) and this world in which he lived. 

A fixed and unshakable belief that people were trying to change his sex, but that they are not successful, because he was a representative of 'Kanoon'(Law). 

A fixed and unshakable belief that he is a power or 'Shakti'(personification of the divine feminine aspect in Hinduism). 

A firm belief that other people are trying to put homosexual temptations in his way so that he may succumb and get converted to a woman. 

That homosexual intercourse would convert him into a woman. That he was "101 percent man"

A belief that the government brought him to Mumbai to commit thefts and made him commit criminal acts. 

An unshakable belief that there are three governments in the country - the Akbar Government, the British Government, and the Congress Government and that these Governments are trying to persecute him and put temptations before him." 

Raman Raghav is thought to be India's worst and most horrific serial killer.An Indian filmmaker Sriram Raghavan produced a 45-minute short film on Raman Raghav, starring Raghuvir Yadav in the lead role.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriram_Raghavan

regards,
Indrakaran.


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