30 Facts About Akku Yadav

Bharat Kalicharan Yadav, known as Akku Yadav, was an Indian gangster, robber, home invader, kidnapper, serial rapist, serial killer, and extortionist.

Akku Yadav lived and did business in the slum which housed a number of criminals and two rival gangs.

Akku Yadav tried to create a small business empire; he extorted money, harming and threatening those who resisted him.

Akku Yadav bribed police, giving them money and buying them drinks to convince them to let him continue committing crimes.

Akku Yadav had chili powder thrown in his face, and his penis was hacked off.

Akku Yadav grew up in the Kasturba Nagar slum outside the central Indian city of Nagpur, Maharashtra.

Akku Yadav lived and did business in the slum, which housed some criminals and, according to police, two rival gangs who worked the area.

Akku Yadav was a deplorable man who had turned an apprenticeship as a small-time thug into a role as a mobster and king of the slum.

Akku Yadav committed crimes for several years as he created a small business empire.

Pratibha Urkude and her husband Dattu ran a small grocery shop and Akku Yadav harassed them for years.

Akku Yadav would pick up goods from the shop and refuse to pay or would simply pay much less than was owed.

Akku Yadav made sure young boys did not play together, and if they did, Akku would break up their games.

The women who killed Akku Yadav claimed that he had been raping and abusing local women with impunity for over a decade.

Akku Yadav sometimes wanted a motorcycle or would grab a mobile phone or extort money.

Akku Yadav murdered a woman named Asha Bai, a daughter of Anjana Bai Borkar, in front of her 16-year-old granddaughter.

Akku Yadav then cut off her ears for her earrings and her fingers because he could not get her rings.

Akku Yadav knocked aggressively on their door saying he was a police official, and asked them to open it.

Akku Yadav allowed her to return after three or four hours.

In January 2004, Akku Yadav was banned from entering Nagpur city.

Akku Yadav stripped a man naked and burned him with a cigarette, then forced him to dance in front of his 16-year-old daughter.

Akku Yadav took a woman named Asha Bhagat and tortured her in front of her daughter and several neighbours by cutting off her breasts.

Akku Yadav then sliced Bhagat into pieces on the street, killing her.

Akku Yadav's gang pulled another woman from her house when she was seven months pregnant.

The police worked with Akku Yadav, protected him and supported him; he gave them bribes and drinks.

Since Dungiri refused to file a police report, Usha Narayane filed one herself, but Akku Yadav surrounded Narayane's house with his men after the police informed him of the complaint.

Akku Yadav threatened Narayane with a bottle of acid, while she called the police, who never arrived.

Akku Yadav threatened to return and teach every woman in the slum a lesson.

Akku Yadav's blood was on the floors and walls of the courtroom.

In 2011, a documentary about Akku Yadav called Candles in the Wind was released.

In 2015, a movie inspired by Akku Yadav called Keechaka was released.