[2] He lived at the home of his father, Brij Pal, in Bahadurgarh's Netaji Nagar section.
Since her father was employed by the Union Home Ministry, the police were under pressure to apprehend the culprit quickly.
[2] in July 1995, while Raja was still in police custody, Satish raped and killed a seven-year-old girl.
The police asked parents to keep an eye on their children (especially young girls) and report any suspicious persons, but there was no progress in the investigation.
[6][7] The senior superintendent of police (SSP) who interviewed Ram Babu later said: In his 30s, neither did he appear mentally deranged nor given to perversity.
On 10 July the police arrested Shankar Kumar of Begusarai in Bihar, alleging that he had attempted to abduct Aarti (a young girl from Subhash Nagar in Bahadurgarh).
[4] After nearly a year of inactivity, in September 1998 Satish kidnapped a nine-year-old girl from her family's compound at night.
She met with the local chamber of commerce, who posted a ₹10,000 reward for helping police catch the killer.
[4] Satish raped Somani twice in his home; when she lost consciousness, he assumed she was dead and threw her into a field near his house.
[2] Two days later, Umid Singh saw Somani weeping in a dry flood control channel near a bridge.
Somani told her that she had been kidnapped by a dark-skinned bicyclist with a thin beard, and led police to the house across the train tracks where she was kept overnight.
[4] From 10 to 23 December 1998, he was observed by Dr. Rajiv Gupta at the Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Rohtak.
[4] In the Aarti murder case (victim number 11), he was questioned with lie-detection expert Dr. Bibha Rani on 1 December 1998 and his description of the crime matched the existing evidence.
However, while affirming life imprisonment, we direct that the accused will not be released from custody before completion of 20 years of actual sentence.