Indian Predator The Diary of a Serial Killer is a 3 part true-crime documentary series made by India Today Originals Production and released on Netflix. It investigates the case of a young, well-loved journalist who goes missing in Allahabad, and in the process, they find an unlikely suspect — a small-time local politician’s husband and 13 other victims.
The synopsis of the series reads, “When a suspect is found in a journalist’s murder, the case is considered closed until a secret diary suggests 13 more victims — and possible cannibalism.”
How Many People Did Raja Kolander Kill?
His publicly known victim is the journalist Dheerender Singh whom he killed because had become aware of Raja’s criminal activities, including murdering the Tata Sumo drivers and stealing the cars and had threatened to expose him. They had called the journalist at their pig farm and then Vakshraj had shot dead Singh from behind.
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They dumped his headless body in the woods and dumped the severed parts at a pond in the Rewa district of MP. And with this case, the other two victims, drivers of Tata Sumo come to light, whom he had killed while coming back from a family event. In the investigation, police had found two skulls at his pig farm, out of which one belonged to his colleague.
Raja Kolander had lent 50 thousand rupees to Kali Prasad Srivastava, his colleague while working in COD. However, Kali Prasad did not return the money and would look down on Kolander for belonging to the Kol tribe and tell him that he can get away with his money, due to his smart brain.
Kolander was also enamoured of Kali Prasad’s intellect and when he felt that he might get his money back, his colleague also met with the same fate. He went to Shankargarh with Kali Prasad and killed him by slitting his throat near the forest. He brought his skull to Pig’s farm and consumed his brain after boiling it because his intellect was very sharp and Kolander had to sharpen his intellect too.
He even painted his skull red as it meant special to him. Along with the red skull another skull was found and it belonged to Mohd Moin. He had also taken 25 thousand rupees and wouldn’t return back by making excuses. Moin had told Kolander that he knew hypnosis and that intrigued him, leading to the deadly fate.
He took Moin to Yamuna bridge where he cut off his head and threw the body in the river. Kolander later confessed that since Moin was a Muslim, he didn’t want him to get peace after death, thus he threw his body in water and consumed his boiled brain to get the hypnosis powers.
Apart from these the names found in his ‘Raja ki Diary’ included Pawan Kumar Yadav, Hatiya Naseem, Rati Srivastava, Tribhuvan Pandey, Pappu Pasi and Sultana. The investigating police officer SN Tripathi also tells about 2 more victims which belonged to the Pandit caste and a lower caste. Apparently, they were killed so that he could get his hand on their car.
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But Kolander also believed that Pandits eat more, so they must have big intestines and after killing the Pandit, he compared his intestines to the ones of a lower caste person, to confirm. Currently, Raja Kolander and his accomplice brother-in-law Vakshraj are serving life imprisonment in Unnao jail.
In the documentary, the inmates and the guard tag him as a very religious person who is always praying, especially a devotee of goddess Baglamukhi. While the psychologist tag him as a person with Antisocial personality disorder or sociopathy, which is a mental disorder in which a person consistently shows no regard for right and wrong and lacks regard for their own safety or the safety of others.
They often hallucinate or live in their imaginary delusions, like Ram Niranjan wanted to live a life of power like a King. Therefore, the name Raja Kolander (he comes from the Kol Tribe so the name suggests, King of Kol people). He was certainly fascinated with power and knowledge, as he wanted to run for the MLA seat, the next year and Dheerendra’s expose would have shattered his dreams.
Indian Predator The Diary of a Serial Killer is streaming on Netflix.
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