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M
JAISHANKAR
Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics:
Serial rapist
Number of victims: 19 - 21
Date of murders: 2006 - 2009 / 2011
Date of arrest:
October 2009 - Escaped March 18, 2011 - Arrested on May 5, 2011 -
Escaped on September 2, 2013 - Arrested on September 6, 2013
Date of birth: 1977
Victims profile:
Women
Method of murder:
Stabbing with a machete
Location: Tamil
Nadu/Karnataka, India
Status:
Sentenced to 10 years in prison on April 24, 2013.
The convict is facing trial in more than 20 cases
Serial rapist-killer Jaishankar's escape tale
still a mystery
The Times of India
September 9, 2013
BANGALORE: A week after he escaped from prison and
three days after he was arrested, police are still in the dark over
how serial rapist-killer Jaishankar, alias M Shankar, 36, scaled the
walls of Parappana Agrahara Central Jail.
Sources told TOI that Jaishankar was not remanded
to police custody on two counts: he was not medically fit to undergo
interrogation, and escaping from jail is a minor offence.
Investigation officers said when he was arrested,
there were wounds on his feet, his knees were swollen and he
complained of back pain.
Jaishankar had escaped from Parappana Agrahara jail
last Sunday after using duplicate keys and scaling two walls. There
were reports on an insider role in the escape. He was trapped by
police on Thursday night.
Addressing the media following the arrest, city
police commissioner Raghavendra H Auradkar had said more details on
how he managed the escape will come out once they interrogate him.
After being remanded to judicial custody,
Jaishankar has not returned to jail but has been admitted to Victoria
Hospital for medical treatment.
"We'll protest this decision and take legal course
to obtain his custody," said Kamal Pant, additional commissioner of
police, law and order. "We're yet to conduct a detailed interrogation
and are expecting some answers on how he managed the escape."
The commissioner also said police had not
completely believed his version of the escape as it was contradictory.
But with police custody denied, answers to these questions will be
delayed.
Serial rapist-killer Jaishankar planned escape
over two months
The Times of India
September 7, 2013
BANGALORE: The city police commissioner put his
engineering background to good use when he drew the escape route of
serial rapist-killer Jaishankar alias M Shankar, 36, from Parappana
Agrahara Central Prison. Jaishankar had planned his escape for two
months.
"He had a duplicate key to the hospital cell where
he was locked up. He had noticed that guards came to inspect his cell
every half hour and knew he had this 30-minute window to escape," the
commissioner said.
Once a round of inspection was over past Saturday
midnight, Jaishankar opened his cell door with a duplicate key and
went to the ground floor, where some high-profile convicts like Abdul
Nasser Madani had been lodged. To his good fortune, prison guards were
careless and left open two gates leading from the hospital to the
garden. He scaled a 20-foot wall, then walked atop a 15-foot wall and
then scaled the 30-foot high wall.
Auradkar said it's still not clear if he used a
steel pole or the gate to scale the first 20-foot wall.
ADGP (Prisons) KV Gagandeep said Jaishankar had
used a duplicate key to get out of the cell. "The cell lock was
reachable by hand. The key could have been made by him or with the
help of someone. We'll wait for the inquiry report to confirm it. We
recovered the key from the garden and on inspection, found that you
can only open the lock with the key but not close it. "
BK Singh, head of the special investigation teams
formed to nab Jaishankar, said on reaching the peripheral wall, he
used a belt and a bedsheet stolen from the hospital to lower himself.
"His idea was to come down halfway and push himself away from the wall
and land on the muddy terrain near the wall. He landed on his back and
that explains his backache. We suspect the blood spots found near the
wall are from his wounds," he said.
Gagandeep explained that it was not a power cut but
the electric fencing itself that wasn't functional that night. "We had
one officer of an ASP rank in-charge of this infrastructure and he
didn't check the system and report it to us. He is under suspension
now," he said.
Escaped serial rapist-killer Jaishankar arrested
The Times of India
September 6, 2013
BANGALORE: Notorious criminal and serial rapist
Jaishankar, who made a sensational escape from the high-security
central prison here on September 1, was arrested on Friday.
"Jaishankar was arrested from Kudligate in
Bangalore", city police commissioner Raghavendra Auradkar said.
Police had announced a reward of Rs five lakh for
information leading to his arrest, and issued a look-out notice after
the dare-devil act, that also led to suspension of 11 prison officials
for alleged dereliction of duty.
According to the official version, Jaishankar used
a bamboo pole and bedsheet to scale the high security inner and outer
northern periphery jail walls, in a filmy style stunning the police.
36-year-old Jaishankar, considered a psychopath,
who was recently sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in a trespass,
rape and murder case, hails from Kanyapattanam Konasamudra village in
Tamil Nadu's Salem district.
The convict is facing trial in more than 20 cases
in Chennai, Dharmpuri, Hosur, Salem, Tirupattur of Tamil Nadu and
Bangalore Rural, Chitradurga, Hiriyur, Kadur, Molakalmur and Tumkur in
Karnataka.
Bangalore: Watch out, there's a psycho on the
loose
Dnaindia.com
Tuesday, Sep 3, 2013
Police press panic button following escape of
maniac Jaishankar from Parappana Agrahara central prison.
Serial rapist-cum-killer Jaishankar’s escape from
the Parappana Agrahara jail has added panic to the embarrassment
suffered by state police, who now fear that the sex maniac on the
loose could target lonely women.
The police have issued red alert to all the police
stations across the state, directing them to take possible preventive
measures by safeguarding women at lonely and isolated places.
Jaishankar’s crime history reveals that he enjoyed raping and
torturing women. He even confessed to torturing women before
physically abusing them.
Senior police officers expressed their apprehension
that Jaishankar could even be holed up in the state capital, and they
have urged working women and those who travel alone at isolated places
to be careful.
Jaishankar always carried a black hand bag with
him. He trapped sex workers near dhabhas on highways, and killed many
of them brutally, after having sex with them. Besides, he targeted
women in farm houses. He kept a machete in his bag and killed whoever
resisted him.
Jaishankar also abducted, raped and killed women in
rural areas. As many as 12 cases of rape and murder, and seven rape
cases have been lodged against him in Tamil Nadu alone. He had also
kidnapped Jayamani, 39, a woman police constable on duty near
Perumallur, raped her several times and killed her. Though the
incident took place in August 2009, the police recovered her body only
a month later.
It was another month before the Tamil Nadu police
arrested Jaishankar in October 2009. He managed to give them the slip
on March 17, 2011, as he was being taken to the court.
Jaishankar was rearrested near Jhalki checkpost in
Bijapur district on May 5, 2011. He was subsequently lodged in
Parappana Agrahara jail, till he escaped in the early hours of Sunday.
Retired superintendent of the central prison,
Lakshminarayana, held senior officers of the jail directly responsible
for the escape.
“I had warned them about Jaishankar coming out of
his cell too often. The staff neglected my warnings and this led to
his escape,” he explained.
Serial killer held in Karnataka
A Subburaj - The Times of India
May 5, 2011
COIMBATORE: The police on Wednesday night arrested
an alleged serial killer who had escaped from police custody from
Salem two months ago, near Bijapur in Karnataka. M Jaishankar, 33, is
accused in 19 cases of murder and rape. A special team from Coimbatore
has left for Karnataka to confirm the identity of the person arrested.
The police in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka had put out
notices and issued posters seeking information to nab the accused.
Police sources said Jaishankar was nabbed when he tried to molest a
woman near Bijapur, who raised an alarm. People who gathered
recognised him as they had seen his photograph. Posters have been
stuck in hotels, railway stations and bus stands across various towns
in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, seeking information on Jaishankar.
According to Superintendent of police N Arivuselvam,
Jaishankar hails from Panangkatturai near Edapadi in Salem district.
He is married and has three daughters.
He is wanted in eight cases of rape, three cases of
murder, four cases of attempt to murder and one case of assault in
Salem, Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri, Tirupur, Erode and Namakkal.
He was kept under custody at the Coimbatore central
prison. He was taken to a fast track court in Dharmapuri in connection
with a case about two months ago. As he was being escorted back to
Coimbatore, he managed to escape from the police at the Salem bus
stand. One of the police constables who was escorting him committed
suicide as a result of this. Jaishankar is also accused in four cases
of murder and rape in Karnataka which he allegedly committed after his
escape.
Coimbatore serial killer traced to Mumbai
A Subburaj - The Times of India
May 3, 2011
COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore police are closing in on
the elusive serial rape accused M Jaishankar, who is on the run after
killing and raping 19 women in the last three years. The dreaded
criminal is now said to be holed up in Mumbai.
"The Chitradurga district police in Karnataka have
pasted pictures of the rape accused in key public places including
railway stations and bus stands. The accused has escaped from
Karnataka and is now in Mumbai," police commissioner C Sylendra Babu
said.
A special police team from Coimbatore which has
launched a nation-wide man hunt for 33-year-old Jaishankar, has traced
his recent mobile calls to Mumbai. The culprit, who escaped from
police custody in Salem on March 18, is said to have killed and raped
six women in Karnataka, over the last 40 days. In all, he is charged
with raping and murdering 19 women, besides raping six other women. He
is also accused of killing a man and a child in Dharmapuri district in
March.
The commissioner said that the accused had stopped
making calls from his mobile when he realised that police were after
him. "We are closing in on him. Our special team will nab him soon,"
said the commissioner. The special team, led by Race Course police
inspector (Crime), P Periyasamy, has two sub-inspectors and 15 police
personnel. The Chitradurga district police have also formed four
special teams to nab the serial killer.
M Sankar alias Jaishankar, 33, of Kanniampatty near
Kattu Valasu in Salem district, was arrested on October 19, 2009, in a
murder case, and lodged in Coimbatore central prison on October 20. He
escaped from city police custody on March 18, 2011 at Salem bus stand
when he was being escorted to Coimbatore after being produced in the
Dharmapuri Court.
Criminal rapes, kills 6 women after escape from
Salem
The Times of India
April 28, 2011
COIMBATORE: In a shocking crime saga, a notorious
criminal from Salem, who escaped from police custody last month, has
in the intervening period raped and killed six women in Karnataka's
Bellary district and murdered two persons in Dharmapuri district of
Tamil Nadu, according to the police.
The police said Jaishankar, a truck driver who gave
the slip to an escorting police party at the Salem bus stand on March
18, is now in Delhi. He was being taken from Coimbatore to Dharmapuri
when he managed to escape. A constable escorting him later shot
himself in Coimbatore out of a sheer sense of shame.
Since his escape, Jayashankar allegedly raped and
murdered six women in Bellary and killed a man and a child in
Dharmpuri, the police said and added that special teams from
Coimbatore and Bellary were hunting for him. "We have received
specific information that the accused, Jaishankar, raped and murdered
six women in Bellary in Karnataka. A special team went to Bangalore to
nab him but he gave the slip. Then he escaped to New Delhi. Our team
followed him but is yet to find him," Coimbatore police commissioner C
Sylendra Babu said on Wednesday.
After reaching Delhi, Jaishankar reportedly threw
away the mobile phone he was using on his way from Salem to Bellary
and Bangalore.
"Jaishankar raped and murdered six women in Bellary
and then committed two murders in Dharmapuri district. We are trying
to nab him. Our team will nab him soon" said special team inspector P
Periyasamy.
Thirty-three-year-old M Sankar alias Jaishankar of
Kanniampatty near Kaattu Valasu in Salem district is accused of raping
and murdering woman police constable M Jayamani (39) of the Kangeyam
all-women police station on August 23, 2009. Jayamani was on bandobust
duty at Perumanallur during deputy chief minister M K Stalin's visit
to Tirupur when Jaishankar kidnapped and raped her before killing her.
Her body was found on September 19. The Tirupur police launched a
manhunt and finally nabbed Jaishankar on October 19 and landed in
Coimbatore central prison.
As many as 13 rape and murder cases and seven rape
cases were registered against Jaishankar in Tirupur, Salem and
Dharmapuri. On March 17, he was taken to Dharmapuri court in
connection with a murder case. The next day, armed reserve police
constables M Chinnasamy and Rajavelu were escorting him back to
Coimbatore hwen, around 9.30 pm, the accused escaped at the Salem bus
stand. On March 19, constableChinnasamy shot himself.
