Auto Shankar During a period of six months in 1988, Auto Shankar abducted and murdered 9 teenage girls from Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai

Though initially he blamed all of it on the influence of cinema, a month before his execution, he confessed to committing the murders for some politicians who had raped the abducted teenage girls

Cyanide Mohan Cyanide Mohan used to lure unmarried girls into having sex with him and then trick them into taking contraceptives which were actually cyanide pills, throughout 2005-2009, he killed 20 women

Devendra Sharma From 2002-2004, he stole cars and killed car drivers from many areas in and around UP, Gurgaon and Rajasthan. According to his own confession, he killed about 30-40 men, all drivers

Cyanide Mallika Mallika, a woman living in Bangalore, killed 6 women from 1999 to 2007. Her modus operandi was quite twisted

She used to pretend to console lower middle-class women who were facing domestic issues and then killed them through cyanide poisoning. She used to then rob them of their belongings

Thug Behram Thug Behram is one of the most prolific killers in history. He is often cited as having killed over 931 people from 1790 to 1840, but he only confessed to have only killed about 125 people 

Rajendra Jakkal, Dilip Sutar, Shantaram Kanhoji Jagtap and Munawar Harun Shah From 1976 to 1977, these four friends and batchmates from Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya killed over 10 people which is now known as the Joshi-Abhyankar serial murders

They were eventually arrested and all four of them were hanged in 1983. The cult film, Paanch , by Anuraag Kashyap was loosely based on these characters

Amardeep Sada Amardeep Sada is India’s youngest serial killer. He was 8 when he was arrested in Begusarai, Bihar for the murder of three young children – his six-month old cousin, his own eight-month-old sister and six-month old Khushboo, a neighbour’s daughter