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killing 33 people - all drivers and cleaners of trucks - and stealing the vehicles
The police said Aadesh Khambra was a contract killer, who made Rs 50,000 per murder
The arrest was made from Mandideep following a tip-off from another arrested robber.Initially a tailor, Aadesh Khambra, the police said,
took up a life in crime after struggling with his finances for years
In 2007, he looted a truck with some friends and then joined a 9-members gang.Over the last 13 years, the man - originally from Mandideep
near Bhopal -- targetted trucks on highways across Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh
The police said he would develop a rapport with the men and then offer them drugged food
After killing them, he would dump the bodies in isolated spots and sell the truck and the goods it carried across Bihar and Uttar
Pradesh.Police said their code for murder was "kachra saaf karo (clean up the garbage)"
The direction went to gang members on phone whenever a 'job' came up
The target would first be drugged, the code for which was "kuch mitha ho jaaye (how about some dessert)"."The gang members befriended the
targets and then called Khambra, who would turn up at the spot with sweets, liquor and other eatables laced with drugs," said Dharmendra
strike up a conversation after asking for a cellphone charger.The government's flagship Goods and Services Tax caused a slight hiccup in the
The drug that Aadesh Khambra used, dubbed "tablet 24" was withdrawn from the market and he had to find something equally effective, the
He had been buying the drug from a medical store in Karera, Shivpuri.Aadesh Khambra committed a murder for the first time in 2008, the
police said, running over a man in Raghogarh
Two years later, he got arrested by the Amravati police in Maharashtra and was convicted on charge of killing 8 murders.Released on bail in
2015, he restarted the tailoring business again
But when his son met with an accident in 2016, he turned to crime again to pay the hospital bills
This time, he turned a contact killer.He was arrested after the police solved a double murder that took place in Bilkhiria, barely 20 km
from the state capital Bhopal, on August 13.One of the men arrested in the case, Jaykaran Prajapati, told the police that Aadesh Khambra was
Catching him would hav4 been difficult else
The man changed his mobile phone and sim card after each murder
The police have received the details of 43 IMEI numbers used for more than 50 sim cards.The gang initially confessed to 14 highway murders
But investigation revealed there was much more
Khambra revealed the gang works on Guru-Chela (teacher-disciple) format, where the gang leader trained the new entrants and they then formed
The police are trying to nab the "Saheb Ji" who is said to be the boss of Adesh Khambra.The police have also recovered a diary from Adesh
Khambra, which, sources said contained names indicating possible political patronage to the accused
But state police chief Rishi Kumar Shukla refused to reveal details, saying, "I will not say anything about the findings of the
