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Darbara Singh (born 1952) is an alleged Indian serial killer, who has been convicted for two murders. During April–October 2004, 23 children of non-Punjabi migrants were kidnapped in the Jalandhar city of Punjab, India. Many of these children were sexually assaulted, and 17 of them were killed. In October, the police apprehended Darbara Singh, who had earlier been jailed for nearly a decade in another case involving sexual assault and attempted murder on a child. Singh allegedly confessed that he was behind all these abductions, sexual asasults and murders in 2004. He was convicted for 2 of the murders, and sentenced to life. He was also convicted for 2 more murders; in this case, he had led the police to dead bodies after his arrest. He was awarded a death sentence in this case, but was later acquitted by the High Court because of insufficient evidence. He was also acquitted in 4 more cases because of insufficient evidence. He is currently serving a life sentence, with some of the cases pending for trial. == Early life == Darbara Singh is a native of Jallupur Khera village of Amritsar district.〔 He joined the Indian Armed Forces, and was posted at the Air Force Station at Pathankot. In 1975, he was accused of lobbing a hand grenade at the house of his senior officer Major V K Sharma, after having an altercation with him. The wife and teenaged son of the officer were seriously injured in the attack. Singh was dismissed and arrested; however, he was acquitted after a trial.〔 Singh had three children; his wife expelled him from their house, because of his "bad habits".〔 In 1996, Darbara Singh raped and attempted to murder the daughter of a migrant labourer in Kapurthala. In 1997, he was convicted in three cases of rape and attempt to murder, and sentenced to prison for 30 years. From Kapurthala he was shifted to the Jalandhar Central Jail, and then to the Ludhiana Central Jail. On 3 December 2003, his mercy petition was accepted on the basis of his good conduct, and he was released from the jail. By this time, he had developed a grudge against migrants, holding them responsible for wasting many years of his life. After his release, he came to Jalandhar, where he started working in a factory in the Leather Complex area. He lived in a rented room in the Model House locality. To take his 'revenge' against the migrants, he started targeting their children.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Darbara Singh (murderer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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