From a s@x worker to India’s first female serial killer. Story of a Brahmin wife Trikolya alias Tikolya
In the dark chapters of crime history, Kolkata’s, then Calcutta, Troilokya Tarini Devi, better known as Tikolya, loomed long before even the notorious Jack the Ripper terrorised the world.
Troilokya, a Brahmin widow turned sex worker, rose to prominence through con games before escalating to murder. Her crime career spanning over three years, she drowned at least five women in Calcutta to steal their jewellery, abducted minors to sell them to influential people, did political murders in the lieu of her “services” caught just before killing the next target and was hanged in 1884 by British Raj Administration.
Troilokya was very young when h. Ni. Ie became a widow. To meet her daily needs, she took pr@stitution as the “best shortcut” to earn money. She became very popular in Calcutta because of her beauty and being super active and dominant in her “services”,
But her income became nothing as her beauty faded over the years. Turning desperate, she partnered with her lover Kali Babu, devising schemes to entrap wealthy men, including faux weddings and drugged orgies, to rob them. When these cons lost yield, she escalated to murders promoted by political agendas and to rob jewelleries.
Her tip to police was given by her lover kali Babu only as she refused to marry him. She was hanged openly in public and the entire Calcutta witnessed.