Overview

• Devender Sharma, known as 'Doctor Death,' was arrested from an ashram in Dausa, Rajasthan, where he was living under a false identity as a priest.
• Sharma, a former Ayurvedic doctor, has been convicted in seven murder cases and sentenced to life imprisonment, with a death penalty in one case by a Gurugram court.
• His crimes include over 50 suspected murders, primarily targeting taxi and truck drivers, whose bodies were disposed of in crocodile-infested waters to destroy evidence.
• Between 1998 and 2004, Sharma operated an illegal kidney transplant racket, facilitating over 125 transplants with accomplices across multiple states.
• Sharma had previously absconded on parole twice, in 2020 and 2023, exposing systemic gaps in India's parole monitoring and enforcement.