Major Singh

Victims
7
Years active
1971 - 2005
Location
Punjab/Uttar Pradesh, India
Method
Several
Status
Not recorded.

The account is that in November 2005 a man named Major Singh, born around 1950, was arrested in Punjab after thirty-four years as a fugitive, and was accused of seven murders of men, of cannibalism, and of long-running opium smuggling. The victims are unnamed and the methods are given as several. He was known as Jagga.

The source is one report in an Indian newspaper of November 30, 2005. Nothing else has been located: no charge sheet, no trial, no verdict, no sentence. This roster's status field says "unknown," which is accurate.

Cannibalism allegations in Indian arrest reporting of this period were frequently made at the point of arrest and frequently did not survive into the charges, which is a caution to apply here rather than a conclusion about this case.

The entry is retained as a record of an arrest and an allegation. It should not be cited for seven murders, and it belongs with Schultz, Furuya Sokichi and Peter Kulaxides in this archive as an entry whose whole source base is one paragraph.