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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1991}} | | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1991}} | ||
| birth_place = [[Badaun]], [[Uttar Pradesh]] | | birth_place = [[Badaun]], [[Uttar Pradesh]] | ||
| years_active = | | years_active = 2008–2015 | ||
| known_for = Rape and murder of more than 20 children in and around outer Delhi. | | known_for = Rape and murder of more than 20 children in and around outer Delhi. | ||
| victims = | | victims = 15–30 | ||
| country = [[India]] | | country = [[India]] | ||
| states = [[Delhi]], [[Haryana]], [[Uttar Pradesh]] | | states = [[Delhi]], [[Haryana]], [[Uttar Pradesh]] | ||
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'''Ravinder Kumar''' (born 1991) is | '''Ravinder Kumar''' (born 1991) is an Indian [[serial killer]], [[Rape|rapist]], [[Child molestation|child molester]], and [[necrophile]] who committed the abduction, rape, and [[murder]] of a minimum of fifteen children between 2008 and 2015. He was apprehended on 19 July 2015, and confessed to murdering thirty children in total. He targeted the children of poor families in [[New Delhi|Delhi]], [[Mundka]], [[Samaypur]], Badli, Begampur and Vijay Vihar and confessed to killing more than 30.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.firstpost.com/india/delhi-serial-rapist-ravinder-kumar-admits-killing-30-children-2355078.html|title=Delhi serial rapist Ravinder Kumar admits to killing more than 30 children|date=21 July 2015|work=First Post}}</ref> His victims were primarily aged 4–6 years old. Police were able to link him with 15 of his confessed crimes.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-33621711|title=Has this Indian man really killed 30 children?|date=22 July 2015|work=BBC News}}</ref> His crimes commenced with the rape and murder of a labourer’s child from Samaypur Badli in 2008.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.livemint.com/Politics/WC5Ey3efB2xcZ7XMeW6X5K/The-badlands-of-Delhi.html|title=The badlands of Delhi|last=Sengupta|first=Rudraneil|date=23 July 2017|work=Live Mint}}</ref> Some media reports mention accomplices in some of Kumar's crimes.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/serial-rapistmurderer-ravinder-kumar-was-drawn-only-to-children/article7448526.ece|title=I targeted children, none of them hit back: Delhi serial rapist|last=Sunny|first=Shiv|date=21 July 2015|work=The Hindu}}</ref> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||