Delhi police probe 28 murders by highway cabbies

NEW DELHI: Police were investigating highway murders allegedly committed by nine cab drivers, who reportedly killed at least 28 people, an official said on Saturday. 

"The investigations are on. The men are under arrest. It is the biggest crime case we have got," said a police official, who asked for anonymity. 

He would not confirm the number of people allegedly killed by the cab drivers.   

Media reports said police claim to have solved at least 28 murders with the arrests made last week. The accused have confessed to the killings, but lost count of their victims.   

The men would allegedly offer to drop a person home, strangle him in the vehicle, take valuables and dump the body in a drain or a manhole in the industrial city of Gurgaon which neighbours New Delhi. 

Repenting their crimes, the men now want to be hanged, some of them told the Times of India.  "We don't want to live anymore. We can neither return to our families nor to our village," gang leader Rohtas, who uses only one name, was quoted as saying. 

Relatives of the accused and residents of Bohda Kalan village in Gurgaon, where the men came from, also said that the men should be hanged. 

"I don't want to see my son's face ... He should be hanged," said Onkar, father of Mukesh, one of the accused.