Patna: Police in Bihar have arrested an IT professional-turned-serial killer, Avinash Kumar Srivastava alias Amit, who claims to have killed 20 people. He also murdered his father’s killer by pumping 32 bullets into his body.
Srivastava, who worked for reputed IT company Infosys before entering into the world of crime, was arrested from Vaishali district in Bihar on Saturday while he was planning to commit another crime. He also said he was under contract to kill six more people, but before he could, he was arrested by police.
Such was his brazenness that when the media inquired about his criminal history after his arrest, Amit said: “Why are you wasting my time? Just type ‘Avinash psycho killer’ on Google and you will get all the details about me.”
Reports said when the police reminded him how he had broken his earlier promise to undergo reformation, he retorted, “I can’t change myself, sir! Till then I am alive I will go on killing people.”
Police said Amit killed his victims in a brutal, meryless manner. “He has confessed to have eliminated at least 20 people so far since 2003,” Vaishali district superintendent of police Rakesh Kumar said on Sunday.
As per the report, the serial killer, who had a Master’s degree in computer application from the prestigious Jamia Milia Islamia University in New Delhi, decided to kill in order to avenge the murder of his father, former lawmaker Lalan Srivastava, who was killed in 2002.
In 2003, he killed his father’s alleged killer, Pappu Khan, by shooting 32 bullets into his body. It is said the popular Bollywood film Gangs of Wasseypur-II, where one of the characters empties his gun into his father’s killer is inspired by the life of this man, who now claims to have killed five out of the six people involved in the killing of his father. As per reports, Amit also murdered the lawyer who was fighting the case of his father’s killers.
He told the media that his life as an IT professional was running smoothly until his father was killed by gangsters in Kankarbagh locality in Patna.
