The arrest of a 40-year-old man who allegedly killed two persons sleeping on the pavement here in a span of 15 minutes for no apparent reason has prompted the Mumbai Police to take another look at undetected killings with similar circumstances since 2016. Suresh Shankar Gauda, the accused, was nabbed within an hour of the cold-blooded killings on October 23.

The case invariably evoked the memory of Raman Raghav, a serial killer who was arrested in the city in 1968 and whose story inspired the 2016 film "Raman Raghav 2.0", starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui. When police caught up with Gauda, he was having a meal. "He showed no remorse, no emotion whatsoever when we nabbed him," said a police officer. According to police, Gauda, who hails from Hassan district of neighbouring Karnataka, made his living in Mumbai by collecting scrap material from garbage dumps. The murders took place during evening hours when the streets in central Mumbai are far from deserted.