The complete case study of criminal activity of the serial killer named Pyscho Shankar. The Criminal activities are like brutal rape, murder, and robber.

1. CRIMINOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY
CASE ANALYSIS
Psycho Shankar- The Serial Killer
By
Dharmaraj N
Dharmaraj1703@gmail.com
Bachelor of Engineering
In
Telecommunication Engineering

2. CONTENTS
 Introduction
 Background
 Early Life
 Criminal Life
 First Phase of crime
 Police Constable missing
 Second Phase of crime
 First Arrest
 Court Judgement
 First Escape
 Third Phase of Crime
 Police Investigation 1
 Second Arrest
 Court Justice
 Prison Life
 Second Escape
 Role of Staff
 Police Investigation 2
 Third Arrest
 Death
 Conclusion
 Photo Gallery

3. Introduction:
Fig 1. Traits of the Serial Killer
A Serial killer is a person who murders two or more people either in the separate events or at
the same time for a particular period. There are gaps between each event of killings, which may
range from days to months. Many Psychiatric experts believe that serial psycho killers become
what they are because they have a brain abnormality or genetic disposition while other
psychiatrists believe that a serial killer is created by childhood abuse. A few among them are
extremely dangerous that entire cities fell in fear of them. The blood pumping through the veins
and the heartthrobs of people concealing themselves at their homes to protect their families
when a serial killer is on the prowl can never be forgotten. Psychopathy also was known as
Antisocial Personality Disorder, is a psychological personality disorder. They have common
traits like lack of empathy, guilt, conscience, remorse, shallow experiences of feelings,
uncontrolled emotions, impulsivity, and a weak ability to gratify and control behavior. Making
struggle to others like torture, rape, kill, and brutal based on their thoughts. There are different
kinds of Serial killers based on their views and thoughts where some killers like to brutal rape
and some other killers like to brutal torture the victims and murder them. The term trophy in
the psychopath determines that the killer hunts the people like an animal then abducts and kills
them. As soon as the hunt is over the killer cut and take the likely part of the victim. The killer
plays a fantasy play with their feral creature because of psychopathically affected within
themselves. Alexander Pichushkin also is known as The Chessboard killer is a Russian killer
who killed 48 people between 1992 and 2006 where a number of the victim’s bodies were
found in 2006. He had an aim to kill 64 people to represent the number of squares on a
chessboard. Serhiy Tkach a former Ukrainian police criminal investigator, abounded girls aged
between 8 and 18 and performed sexual acts on their bodies after they were dead. Kampatimar
Shankariya a mysterious Indian serial killer used a hammer to kill over 70 men and women
between 1978 and 1979. Similarly, Raman Raghav, Charles Sobhraj - the Bikini Killer, Mohan
Kumar, Surinder Koli, Umesh Reddy, Darbara Singh (at age 8), first women serial killer named
Mallika, and Ravinder Kumar is the Indian serial killers murdered almost 30 to 50 victims
between 1970 and 2000. In this 21st century, the law enforced severely against the serial killers
and the rapist. There are some of the phrases for women repeatedly hear from their parents and
family members because the world is truly not safe, especially for women. But there was a man
named Psycho Shankar who involved in about 30 brutal rape, murder, and robbery cases across
Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. He was an Indian criminal notorious for a series
of rapes and murders between 2008 and 2011. He subsequently committed suicide by slitting
his throat with a shaving blade because of the unsuccessful prison escape attempt.

4. Background:
Fig 2. Jaishankar photo
Early Life: Jaishankar, a son of Maari Muthu born in 1977 at Kanniyanpatti village, Edapadi
Town of Salem district, Tamil Nadu. During childhood, Jaishankar was studied in the
Government Higher Secondary School, Edapadi. Jaishankar completed his 12th standard
education at the age of 17 and discontinued the studies because of a lack of interest. After that
he worked as a cleaner in the Shanumuga bus travels, the bus travels around the Edapadi Town.
He learned and practiced driving the vehicle and started his career as a Truck Driver. He travels
around the South India states like Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamilnadu by
transporting the vegetables, fruits, and food items in the truck as a driver. He learned the
regional Languages like Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, and Telugu to survive in those states.
Jaishankar got married to a 15 age girl named Parameshwari daughter of Palaniswamy in 2000.
The life of the Jaishankar was good enough because of a good income as a driver and better
family support with 3 daughters.
Criminal life: The life of Jaishankar became a mystery once after he became the truck driver.
Shankar practiced sex with the sex workers available on the Tamil Nadu highway and got
addicted by enjoying it in the truck itself. Once after the practice, the Jaishankar
psychologically affected and changed himself from addiction into the brutal rape around 2006.
Once Jaishankar tried to have sex with the worker, he didn’t pay the respective amount to her.
So that she started to avoid him, hence Jaishankar got angry and brutally killed her. A manhunt
was launched after he gruesomely raped and unleased his brutality. This was the first incident
where the Jaishankar psychopathic life got started around 2008. Jaishankar started to kidnap
the sex workers near Dhabas on Highways then tortured and brutally raped them.
First Phase of Crime: Jaishankar’s first crime to be reported happened on 3 July 2009, Where
he attempted to rape and murder-year old P. Shyamala in Perandahalli. He always carried a
black Handbag with a machete with it and killed whoever resist him. The women in farmhouses
in rural areas also became his target.
Police Constable missing: On 23 August 2009, M. Jayamani a 39-year-old police constable
originally stationed at the Kangeyam all-women police station. She was on temporary duty at
Perumanallur, during the visit of deputy chief minister M.K Stalin. She suddenly got missed
during the duty work and the police officers filed a missing case on her. After 27 days, police
recovered Jayamani’s body a month later, on 19 September. The police officer sentenced the
post-Morten report that says that Jayamani has brutally raped multiple times and killed by
someone with a hard weapon.

5. Second Phase of Crime: Jaishankar and his partner in crime P Mohan Selvam were charged
with the murder of 50-year old woman K Thangammal, of Thillaipuram in Namakkal Town on
10 September 2009, when she was watering plants in her farm located at Kolathuthottam.
Jaishankar and Selvam allegedly hacked the woman using a sickle and severed one of her limbs
before robbing her thali that weighed around 8.5 sovereigns.
First Arrest: Paramathi police registered a case and held inquiries then without identifying the
culprits. The blood samples of the victim and killer have been collected near the dead body and
sent to the forensic department at Namakkal. The forensic department found a similar match
between the two different cases through the Presumptive Semen test. The investigation was
started around the Namakkal town and at last, the valid evidence has been got to the police
officer against the Jayashankar. The Kangeyam police officer got to know that Jaishankar is
the person who raped and killed the constable Jayamani and Thangammal. But the involvement
of the serial rapist Jaishankar came to the light when he confessed to the Tirupur police, who
arrested him on 19 October 2009 in connection with the sensational rape and murder of a
woman police constable M Jayamani. While remanded in custody, Jaishankar revealed that he
enjoyed torturing women before he raped and killed them. It was only after his arrest that police
realized that more than two dozen such complaints were already filed against him.
Court Judgement: A local court acquitted serial rapist M Jaishankar, who was involved in
about 13 cases of rape, murder and robbery spread over Tirupur, Salem, and Dharmapuri, along
with an accomplice in a murder case within August 2009. The psycho rapist got the reprieve
from the court as the prosecution failed to prove the charges. Sources noted that lapses in
investigations and the failure to substantiate the charges with evidence had led to the acquittal.
Passing the judgment, S Manvizhi, the Additional District Judge, Namakkal, acquitted
Jaishankar, stating that the benefit of doubts goes in favor of the accused. Then he was
sentenced to jail at the Coimbatore Central Prison for 2 years.
First Escape: On 17 March 2011, the police took Jaishankar to a fast-track court in
Dharmapuri, for a murder case trial. On the next day, armed reserve police constables Rajavelu
and M Chinnasamy were assigned to escort him back to Coimbatore Jail. The police officer
with Jaishankar was waiting near the Salem bus stand for the government bus to travel
Coimbatore. Jaishankar requested the police officers to travel on a luxury bus and he refused
to travel on the local bus. At that time, Constable Chinnasamy was with Jaishankar and
Rajavelu went to discuss an available luxury bus with Bus stand officer. On that instant of time,
Jaishankar suddenly managed to escape around 9:30 p.m. On 19 March 2011, the police
constable Chinnasamy shot himself out of a sheer sense of shame.
Third Phase of Crime: After the escape, Jaishankar was also accused of killing a male and a
child in the Dharmapuri district. Then he escaped to Karnataka and once again started his
psychopath activities. He raped and murdered 6 women in Bellary over the next month of
escape over the last 40 days. A special team went to Bangalore to nab him but he gave the slip
and escaped to New Delhi. On the month of April 2011, the police traced his mobile phone to
Delhi. After reaching Delhi, Jaishankar reportedly threw away the mobile phone while he was
using on his way from Salem to Bellary. The police initially believed that he had discarded his
mobile phone in Delhi. In May 2011, the police traced his mobile calls to Mumbai, but he
stopped using his mobile phone. A special team, comprising two sub-inspectors and 15 other
police personnel, was assigned to find and arrest him.

6. Police Investigation 1: The Chitradurga district police in Karnataka have posted pictures of
the rape accused in key public places including railway stations and bus stands across
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. A special police team from Coimbatore which has launched a
nation-wide manhunt for Jaishankar has traced his recent mobile calls to Mumbai where he
stopped making calls from his mobile when he realized that police were after him. The special
team, led by the Race Course police inspector (Crime), P Periyasamy, has two sub-inspectors
and 15 police personnel. The Chitradurga district police officer have also formed 4 special
teams to arrest the serial killer Jaishankar. The Tamil Nadu Police had announced Rs 10 lakh
reward to whoever disclosed his location.
Second Arrest: The police on the night of 4 May 2011 arrested an alleged serial killer near
Jhalki Check post, Bijapur in Karnataka. Jaishankar reached Elagi village, Bijapur in
Karnataka, through a stolen motorcycle. He approached a woman, Chandrakala Hotagi, who
was working alone in a field, and asked her for water and food has a beg. Then he tried to
molest her, but Chandrakala shouted. Her husband, Prakash Hotagi, and a friend came to rescue
her. Jaishankar tried to flee the women but was caught by Prakash and villagers. People who
gathered recognized him as they had seen his photograph on posters near Hotels and Bus stand.
The villagers brought him to the Zalaki police station. He was handed over to the Chitradurga
police officers on 5 May 2011. A special team from Coimbatore came to Karnataka to confirm
the identity of the person arrested.
Court Justice: He gained notoriety by allegedly committing a series of rapes followed by
brutal killing in Salem, Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri, Tirupur, Erode and Namakkal districts of
Tamil Nadu. He also allegedly raped and killed women in Bijapur, Davangere, Chitradurga
and Tumkur districts of Karnataka. A total of 11 rapes and three murder cases are pending
against him in the state. He was brought to the court amid tight security and was kept inside a
police vehicle until the judgment was passed in the afternoon. Jaishankar’s accomplice P
Mohan Selvam (35), of Anna Nagar, Kalingarayanpalayam, Erode, whom he had befriended
while serving a term in Omalur Prison, was also acquitted of murder and robbery. At last, the
judgment announced by saying that Jaishankar has sentenced to 27 years in prison. Later, he
was taken to the Parappana Agrahara Jail, Bangalore.
Prison Life: The Bangalore Central Jail located on the city's outskirts in Parappana Agrahara,
is heavily fortified. The prison currently has 4,000 plus prisoners against the limit of 2,100
inmates, making their continuous monitoring a task. Out of the 4,000 inmates, 2,750 are under-
trials, while 1,250 are convicts serving their sentence. The prison staff is roughly 250 strong
enough to manage the prisoners.
Fig 3. Central Jail Parappana Agrahara, Bangalore

7. The government is pleased to sanction the issue of different varieties of breakfast on all days
of the week. The quantity of breakfast to be issued is increased from 180 grams to 250 grams.
The prison calls daily payment incentives, not wages. This is because only those convicted of
a crime can be asked to work. At most about 1,100 of Central jail’s 4,600 inmates are convicted
prisoners. Jaishankar spent the time and became friendly with the staff of the prison and
discussed the complete details with the staff. At the Bangalore jail, he underwent treatment for
psychiatric problems for 2 years with the special psychiatrist.
Second Escape: The police have issued a 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. 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. The entire state was got isolated just because Jaishankar
escaped from the Parappana Agrahara Central Jail. On 31 August 2013, the police took
Jaishankar to the court in Tumkur, about 80km from Bangalore. After returning, Jaishankar
feigned uneasiness and was admitted to the hospital within the prison premises. He was kept
in the jail hospital itself located on the ground floor of the jail.
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Fig 4. Sketching Jaishankar escape at Central Jail, Bangalore
He managed to secure 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 time gap to
escape. Once a round of inspection was over midnight, Jaishankar opened his cell door with a
duplicate key at 2 AM on 1 September 2013 and went to the ground floor, where some high-
profile convicts like Abdul Nasser Madani had been lodged. On that time, jail guards were
careless and left open two gates leading from the hospital to the garden. He climbed a 20-foot
(6.1 m) wall through bamboo stick, then walked on a 15-foot (4.6 m) wall and at last scaled the
30-foot (9.1 m) high compound wall. He used a belt and a bedsheet stolen from the hospital to
lower himself and to push himself away from the wall and land on the muddy terrain near the
wall. He managed to cross the electric fence safely because it was not functional on that night.
He reportedly carried with him a bamboo pole balancing on the walls and a bedsheet to serve
as a cushion over the glass pieces on the wall top and directly jumped to the ground. Jaishankar
had fractured his left leg and spinal cord while jumping from the 30- foot high wall of the
prison compound. Where drops of bloodstains were found outside the outer wall. This left him
partially immobile.

8. Fig 5. 30-foot wall of Central Jail, jumped and escaped by Jaishankar
Role of Staff: The role of the prison staff is under the scanner as this is the first time an inmate
has managed to escape from the high-security jail. As many as 11 prison officials, including an
assistant superintendent, three wardens, two jailors, and six security guards, were suspended
for alleged dereliction of duty, and an inquiry has been ordered into the incident. Various
theories are surrounding the escape of the notorious criminal. Some investigator said that he
wore a police uniform to avoid detection of identity before reaching the walls. There were 4
guards on the ground floor near the jail hospital, 2 guards’ walk opposite for every 30 minutes
with the high secured weapon. During the guard shift change at 2 AM, Jaishankar got escaped.
Fig 6. Graphical sketch of Cell gate and lock
The police suspected that an insider helped him get the duplicate key and used it to open the
cell gate. The cell lock was reachable by hand. The key could have been made by him or with
the help of someone. So that the police confirmed that some insider has helped him with
providing duplicate keys and the bamboo stick. They recovered the key from the garden and
on inspection, found that the key can only open the lock but not close it. It was not a power cut
but the electric fencing itself that wasn't functional that night. There was an officer for an ASP
rank in-charge of this infrastructure where he didn't check the system and report it to officials.

9. Police Investigation 2: The police issued a red alert to all police stations in Karnataka, and
urged women to be careful in isolated places. They announced a reward of 500,000 Rs for any
information leading to his arrest. Besides this, the police printed 10,000 wanted posters and
75,000 pamphlets with different photographic profiles of Jaishankar, in five languages like
Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. Besides Karnataka, these posters and pamphlets
were distributed across Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, and Maharashtra. To predict his
next action, the police analyzed his psychology and life history.
Fig 7. Different Jaishankar posters in Kannada and Tamil Language
Once again 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, which also led to the suspension of
11 prison officials for alleged dereliction of duty.
Third Arrest: Soon after his escape, he was caught five days later on September 6. A police
informant managed to get in touch with him. The informant lured him to a building near the
Kudlu gate in Bangalore, with the promise of a motorbike for his escape outside the city.
Jaishankar waited from 9 AM, 6 September 2013 near the small hut house at the Kudlu gate.
Vijay Kumar a stranger helped him by giving food and Rs 100 for travel. The police officers
covered the house and arrested him at noon. The Police officials released Jaishankar’s photo
through the press meet at 6 AM. The Police official spent over 75,000 Rs treating his fractured
left leg at the Victoria Hospital, where he was operated on 23 September 2013. The surgery on
his left leg have been completed, Jaishankar was sent to Parappana Agrahara Jail, Bangalore
to begin serving his sentence. He was kept in a high-security cell, with 24/7 CCTV monitoring
and extra lights. The lock of his cell was designed to be out of his reach. It was decided that in
cause of an illness, he would be treated inside the cell, rather than taking him to hospital. The
police also decided to deploy extra security while escorting him to trials to minimize the
likelihood of an escape.
Death: Jaishankar was serving his term in solitary confinement after he unsuccessfully tried to
orchestrate an escape from the Bangalore Central prison on 25 February 2018. After this plot
failed, he was held in solitary confinement. Subsequently, on 27 February, he committed
suicide by slitting his own throat with a shaving blade, which he had acquired from a barber
the day before. The jail staff found him lying in a pool of blood at around 2:30 AM, during
their daily rounds. Then Jaishankar was immediately rushed to the jail hospital and provided
him first aid. However, He was later moved to Victoria Hospital, where he was declared dead
on the way in the ambulance itself at 5:10 a.m.

10. Fig 8. Jaishankar spouse Parameshwari at the left in Victoria Hospital, Bangalore
The Bangalore Central jail authorities conducted a preliminary probe into his death and
registered a case of suicide on him. Jaishankar was serving his 10 years term in solitary
confinement. The jail authorities have rejected the possibility of an attack by some jail inmates.
The police have said that Jaishankar was kept in a separate cell after he was arrested after
escaping from prison in 2013. After the official post mortem, Jaishankar's body was
surrendered to his family. Where Jaishankar's spouse Parameshwari refused to collect it
because to know the reason behind Jaishankar's death. At last Jaishankar's body was a funeral
in his hometown itself. Where the local villagers refused to allow it into the village, then the
police officials helped his family to burn out the dead body at Electric crematorium near
Edapadi, Salem, Tamil Nadu.
Conclusion:
Rape is among the highest forms of crime experienced by women in all sectors of society. In
recent years, there has been an alarming rise in the ratio of rape in India. Serial killers commit
some of the most horrifying acts of violence around society. Many serial killers are survivors
of early childhood trauma of some kind – physical or sexual abuse, family dysfunction,
emotionally distant, or absent parents. Here Jaishankar also called has Psycho Shankar was
been gentle from his childhood up to the first incidence. The practice of Sex with the sex
workers on the highway started to be brutal with the surrounding people. The family
relationship of Jaishankar has left after the first arrest by Tirupur Police. Those kinds of people
in this society make problems for others and within their families. The court judgment was
declared has sentenced to prison 27 years just because of not valid evidence. Jaishankar should
be sentenced to hang out death so that getting an escape from the jail and killing others can be
avoided. The Special psychiatrist was allowed to the Jaishankar cell at Bangalore Central jail
to cure his mental illness for almost 2 years between 2011 and 2013. The Bangalore Central
jail is one of the high secure jails of South India where most of the high class criminals are kept
there. But Jaishankar easily escaped from the jail within 30 minutes itself like a filmy style.
The entire Karnataka and Tamil Nadu states were isolated just because of his escape. The
peoples in the rural areas are panic to work alone on their farm due to this kind of Serial killer.
Due to insufficient evidence, the pyscho killers are free to be with society to survive. Those
kinds of Serial killers should sentence to death so that women's safety ratio of Nation increases.
In India, women facing different kinds of problems like women's inequality, rape, harassment,
and kill. To secure the nation from those criminal activities, the law should enforce strictly and
punishment should sentence to death if anyone harasses and rape the women.

11. Photo Gallery:
Fig 9. The Indian Express Newspaper Fig 10. The Hindu Newspaper
Fig 11. Jaishankar home at Kanniyanpatti village, Edapadi Town of Salem district, Tamil Nadu.
Fig 12. M Jayamani 39-year-old Fig 13. The Escape information
Police Constable

12. Fig 14. Jaishankar caught by Tirupur Police,19/10/2009 Fig 15. Jaishankar after caught at Bijapur
Fig 16. Jaishankar at Bellary Fig 17. After the rescue of health at 23 Sept 2013
Fig 18. Picture of House where Jaishankar stayed at 6 September 2013

13. Graphical Representation of Jaishankar escaped at Bangalore Central jail at 1 September 2013:
Fig 1. Jaishankar climbed 20 feet height wall using the Bamboo Stick.
Fig 2. Walking on 15 feet height wall.
Fig 3. Jumping to the ground from 30 feet hight wall across electric fensing.