November 4, 1974 - Santosh Pol
Operating without medical credentials in a small Maharashtra town, Pol exploited the trust placed in healthcare workers to carry out killings spanning more than a decade. The use of succinylcholine — a paralytic agent that can mimic natural death — made the crimes difficult to detect and allowed him to continue undetected across six victims. His case sits within a broader pattern of medical imposture turned lethal, where the social authority of the doctor role provided both access and cover.
From Wikipedia
Santosh Pol (born 4 November 1974) is an Indian quack doctor who confessed to killing six people from 2003 to 2016 in the town of Dhom, Maharashtra, allegedly by injecting them with succinylcholine, a neuro-muscular paralytic drug. He was dubbed Dr. Death by the media for the incident.
The names of his victims are Mangala Jedhe, Salma Shaikh, Jagabai Pol, Surekha Chikane, Vanita Gaikwad and Nathmal Bhandari.
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