Man confesses to five murders across India

A 40-year-old man from Bengaluru has been arrested in connection with a murder case from 2008 in Vasai. The man's name is Niranjankumar, but he is also known as Ranjan or Akshay Vijay Shukla. During questioning, he confessed to committing a shocking crime before this. According to his confession, Shukla killed four family members in West Bengal back in 2002. He said he was unhappy after his mother died and his father remarried. Shukla claimed his stepmother mistreated him, which led him to kill her, along with his two young step-sisters and step-brother. This tragic event happened in their home when Shukla was just 20 years old. After leaving West Bengal, Shukla moved to Karnataka and later to Maharashtra, where he settled in Vasai. There, he started a paint business with a friend named Manoj Saha. However, they had a fight over a shared wall while building a house. This argument escalated, leading Shukla to strangle Saha with a shoelace and strike his head against the wall, killing him in March 2008. Shukla was caught after he applied for a voter ID to sell property in Bihar, as advised by a friend. Authorities, looking into his background, tracked him down using technical evidence. He is currently in police custody for further investigation.