India, Oct. 1 -- In June 2018, driver Rajesh Panwar and cleaner Noor Khan were reported missing after they went to park their truck in Bhopal. It soon emerged that the vehicle was also missing. As the probe widened, police seized two trucks from Bihar and found that Aadesh Khambra and Jaykaran Prajapati had stolen the truck from Bhopal, murdered Panwar and Khan, and dumped their bodies at separate locations.

Further investigation showed Khambra and Prajapati had been stealing trucks, murdering drivers and cleaners, and selling the trucks and their cargo. Khambra was arrested in August 2018 in connection with the robbery of 50 tonnes of iron rods from a truck. But the investigation revealed that he had committed 15 murders in Madhya Prade...