Two thousand cops fanned out in the city on patrol duty. Frenzied fear had gripped the suburbs and vigilante groups, often armed with lathis, kept watch at nights, sometimes battering wandering fakirs and homeless beggars on mere suspicion. IPS officer Ramakant Sheshagirirao Kulkarni had just taken over as the DCP, CID, (Crime) in Bombay when he was handed this red-hot case. There seemed to be no discernible motive. They were clearly the work of a serial killer: almost all the victims were miserably poor men, women and children and they had been bludgeoned to death by a hard, blunt object. And it was in these squalid suburbs that a terrifying wave of murders took place in 1968. The Bombay of the swinging Sixties with its glamorous nightclubs and jazz music was also home to another world: distant suburbs dotted with ramshackle shanties and huts, mostly peopled by migrant workers.
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