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Hunt on for serial rapist who gave cops a slip

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Bangalore:The escapade of serial rapist and killer M Jaishanker from the Parappana Agrahara prison here  has brought more head ache for the cops who have launched a manhunt for him.

Senior police officials who point out that the last time he was out of prison for 45 days, he had allegedly raped five women and murdered three. Moreover Jaishanker not using mobile phones making it difficult for the cops to track him down.

Jaishanker, a truck driver turned psychopath hails from Idappadi in Tamil Nadu’s Salem district,  used to sleep on footpaths. He used to take his victims into confidence and then commit the brutal act, say police.

He is even facing the charges of raping and murdering Jayamani, a woman constable of the  Kangayam all women police station in Tamil Nadu in August 2009. Though he was arrested in October and lodged in Coimbatore Central Prison, he managed to escape at the Salem bus stand while being escorted to the court in Dharmapuri on March 17, 2011. One of the constables named Chinnaswamy who was accompanying him while he escaped, later shot himself out of embarrassment..

 Since then  Jaishanker had been on the prowl for women  and had reportedly raped and murdered three women on a single day in March 2011 at Nelahal in Tumkur. He had even burnt alive a farm worker at Yaradakatte in Tumkur and later raped and murdered the former’s wife. Jaishanker is also facing charges of raping and murdering women in Tammenahalli in Chitradurga, Guilal in Hiriyar and Seebar village of Chitradurga.

He was eventually arrested on May 4, 2011, 48 days after he fled, at Zalki in Bijapur district when a woman whom he tried to molest raised an alarm and neighbours caught hold of him. He was then lodged at the Parappana Agrahara  on May 5,2011 from where he has now once again escaped.

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