Madhya Pradesh teen 'serial killer' was inspired by KGF movie?

Police in Madhya Pradesh have arrested a 19-year-old who allegedly killed four security guards in the state.

Three of the murders were in Sagar city, and the the last one, just before the arrests, was in Bhopal.

The accused - whose name is Shiv Prasad as per his Aadhaar card - was arrested early Friday morning after police traced the location of the mobile phone he had picked up from one of his victims.


Police said he lives under Kesli police station limits in Sagar district.

In all the killings, all the victims were found with their head smashed in with a stone or hammer. The killer struck in the dead of the night.

The apparent serial killing began in Sagar on the intervening night of August 28-29, and on the next two nights, two more security guards were killed in the same city.

Police said Prasad confessed committing the final murder, of a security guard in Bhopal, on Thursday night.

He said he was inspired by 'Rocky bhai' in the movie KGF - a Kannada action film about an assassin, which was dubbed and became a pan-India blockbuster - NDTV and other news organisations reported quoting police sources.

The killings, which happened while the victims were asleep, struck fear among security guards in the area and sparked fears of a "stoneman".

None of the victims were looted, and since the killings were blind, police had a tough time trying to locate the killer.