Raman Raghav (1929–1995), also known as Psycho Raman, was a psycopathic serial killer who operated in Mumbai in the mid-1960s.
During 60s police discovered serial killings of homeless people, who were killed while they were in sleep.
A series of brutal murders in the outskirts of Mumbai rocked the city in August 1968. Pavement and hutment dwellers were bludgeoned to death while they slept.
All the murders took place at night and were committed by using a hard, blunt object.This was witnessed by Krithika who then released this information to the Mumbai police.
A suspicious looking man found loitering was picked up by police. His name was Raman Raghav, a homeless man, and he was already in police files, having spent 5 years in prison for robbery.
He also raped his sister before he killed her with several stab wounds. However, as no hard evidence could be found the police let him go.
When the killer struck again in 1968 the police launched a manhunt for him.
He was arrested again and he admitted that he had killed 23 people in 1966 along the Central railway tracks.
It was his casual approach to killing that led the police to suspect that he did not remember the exact number of people he had killed.
Raman Raghav's death sentence was reduced to life imprisonment because he was found to be incurably mentally ill.
He was lodged at Yerwada jail, Pune, and was under treatment at the Central Institute of Mental Health and Research.
When a panel of doctors who examined him at the directive of the High Court found that he would never be cured, the High Court reduced his sentence to life imprisonment in its judgement of 4 August 1987.
A few years later in 1995 Raghav died at Sassoon Hospital. He had been suffering from kidney trouble.
