Nagendra Reddy, the son of Madana Mohan Reddy, hailed from Andhra Pradesh’s Nizamabad district. An excellent pupil all through his faculty days, he enrolled at IIT, Madras and accomplished engineering in 2001. Reddy began working in Hyderabad however later moved to Bengaluru the place he began a agency. The firm didn’t do nicely however it didn’t deter Reddy, who moved to the United Kingdom in 2003 after he secured a job.

Reddy reportedly did nicely in his job however suffered from a borderline character dysfunction, in accordance with a veteran Karnataka police officer. “Reddy had a younger sister and he was very possessive about her. He did not like anyone talking to her or showing interest in her. His family was aware of this and they had taken him for counselling multiple times,” retired superintendent of police (SP) S Ok Umesh mentioned.

According to the police, it was this possessiveness that noticed Reddy commit his first homicide that led to his entry into the world of crime.

A homicide in London

In the UK, Reddy had a good friend, Radha Krishna Chepoor, additionally from Andhra Pradesh. The colleagues, who used to remain collectively, began an organization however it bumped into bother on account of alleged belief points between the duo. This was when Reddy’s sister allegedly wrote to Chepoor, thanking him for serving to her brother, in accordance with a police officer. “He did not take it positively…instead, he thought that Chepoor was trying to take his sister away,” the officer added.

On October 29, 2004, Chepoor’s physique was discovered at their residence in Hounslow, a London suburb. To forestall identification of the physique, the top, torso and thumbs had been chopped off. The physique components had been reportedly wrapped in a blanket, taken to an remoted place and set on hearth.

Even as Scotland Yard was zeroing in on suspects, Reddy caught a flight and returned to Bengaluru. He quickly emerged as the important thing suspect within the Chepoor homicide case. With Scotland Yard on his lookout, Reddy maintained a low profile in Bengaluru. “The search for Reddy was focussed on Hyderabad, not Bengaluru, and this helped him evade the police,” a police officer mentioned.

A collection of crimes in Karnataka

Reddy’s title first cropped up in reference to against the law in Bengaluru in 2005. A useless physique was discovered inside Mahalaxmi lodge at Upparpet within the coronary heart of the town. The thumbs of each arms had been lower off and the top was taken away by the killer. With the police but to ascertain the id of the sufferer, a lacking grievance was filed in Bengaluru.

S Ok Malthesh, who was a police inspector in Bengaluru then, remembers the case. Reddy, he says, had purchased surgical knives from medical shops posing as a physician.

Subsequently, the sufferer’s trousers led to his identification. The physique was that of Rajesh Artham, a software program engineer working with Satyam. The police, nonetheless, didn’t have any suspects.

When Artham’s dad and mom took his physique again to Hyderabad, Reddy was amongst Artham’s shut buddies who took half within the funeral. “Then Reddy used Rajesh’s debit card to buy some shoes and other things in Vijayawada. It helped us identify him as a suspect. During the probe, we were shocked,” a senior police officer mentioned.

S Ok Malthesh, who was a police inspector in Bengaluru then, remembers the case. Reddy, he says, had purchased surgical knives from medical shops posing as a physician. He allegedly entered the lodge sporting a lawyer’s gown and dedicated the crime. Nobody suspected him. “When we asked him about the body parts he had chopped off, he said that they were thrown into the Vrishabhavathi River,” says Malthesh.

As the information hit the headlines, a Scotland Yard group got here to Bengaluru and questioned Reddy in reference to the Chepoor homicide case.

Meanwhile, the Bengaluru police probe revealed that Reddy had killed Artham pondering that he was in a relationship together with his sister, a police officer mentioned. Reddy was arrested and after preliminary police custody, he was despatched to Parappana Agrahara Central Prison in Bengaluru.

Retired SP Umesh says it was a time when a number of underworld dons of Bengaluru had been housed within the jail. Several criminals had been being killed in encounters then, and plenty of, like D D Ravi, Silent Sunil, Cycle Ravi, Bettanagere Seena and so forth, selected to remain in jail fearing for his or her lives.

“Reddy befriended some robbers and built a gang. Shabbir and Babu alias Malayali Babu worked for Reddy and were arrested. Meanwhile, on August 7, 2006, Reddy, who was shifted to Victoria Hospital for some treatment, managed to escape from the police,” says retired SP B N Nyamagouda, who was then a police inspector with the Central Crime Branch (CCB).

According to Umesh, when the police had been on the lookout for Reddy in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, he was in Tirupati the place he had began working as a lecturer in a personal faculty. According to police data, Reddy fell in love with a lady, married her and later fled to Vijayawada. He allegedly took contracts to kill folks and was accountable for the deaths of a businessman and a younger couple. Reddy was even arrested in Visakhapatnam, solely to be launched on bail.

Reddy returned to Karnataka and was arrested on costs of theft and theft in 2009. As gang rivalries intensified, gangsters Jadeja Ravi and Imthiyaz Ahmed had been murdered. The police perceived a menace to Reddy’s life contained in the jail and shifted him to Hindalaga Central Jail in Belagavi. Here, Reddy’s ties with D D Ravi grew sturdy. They started concentrating on wealthy undertrial prisoners who had been lodged in jail in instances like dowry harassment. They would gather the prisoners’ checking account numbers and cross them to their associates outdoors to siphon funds, as per the police.

On May 10, 2009, Reddy, who was admitted to a hospital, escaped after killing Chandrakanth Shankar Kamble, a District Armed Reserve (DAR) constable who was at work on the Belagavi hospital. According to police reviews, an individual named Uttam Singh visited Reddy and secretly handed him a knife which was then used to kill Kamble.

Reddy remained untraceable for years. He had allegedly travelled to Odisha, Assam and Nepal however Karnataka police groups despatched to those areas returned empty-handed.

An encounter in Bengaluru

Though Reddy’s whereabouts had been unknown, the Bengaluru police believed that his gang was nonetheless lively within the metropolis. On February 1, 2011, the police obtained a tip-off that Reddy was in Bengaluru to fulfill an individual at a location close to Ramamurthy Nagar.

Malthesh, who performed a vital function in monitoring Reddy, remembers the day’s occasions. “Shankar Bidari was the city police commissioner. After we received the information, CCB police officers Nyamagouda, H Bale Gowda and I were at the spot. As Reddy arrived in an SUV, we blocked the roads. Sensing danger, he opened fire at us using a country revolver. Bale Gowda fired at him and a bullet hit his neck. He died on the spot,” says Malthesh.

Looking again at Reddy’s crimes, Malthesh, who’s a deputy superintendent of police (Lokayukta) in Mysuru, says, “He was just 30 years old when he was shot. He was well educated and talented but he used it to commit crimes. He gave a hard time to the Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka police. His family members refused to receive his dead body and eventually, we had to perform final rites.”

At the time of his loss of life, Reddy was dealing with 13 instances, together with homicide and theft, says Malthesh. All the instances had been within the trial stage. Reddy was not convicted of any crime.