House of death raises fears over 38 missing children

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Just when you think you have heard it all......and people couldn't possibly get any more evil, you read an article like this......

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House of death raises fears over 38 missing children
Jeremy Page, South Asia Correspondent
# Hunt for victims as six bodies found
# Organ transplant trade suspected
Police found the decomposed remains of at least six children in the backyard of a house near Delhi yesterday and are investigating whether they were murdered to harvest their organs.

The search for corpses is due to continue today amid reports that at least 38 children have gone missing in the past 18 months around the house in Noida, a newly developed township just outside Delhi.

Hundreds of relatives of the missing gathered outside the property yesterday, with many accusing the police of ignoring their cases because they were mostly poor migrant workers.

Police denied that and said that they had arrested the businessman who owned the house, identified as Mohinder Singh, and Satish, a 30-year-old man who worked there as a domestic servant.

The latter was “mentally ill”, according to the police, and had confessed to using sweets and toys to lure at least seven children to the house to sexually abuse and murder them.

K.S. Rathore, the local police chief, told reporters: “He says he kidnapped the children for sex.” But he added that a pharmacist in the area was also being questioned. “We suspect that he was also involved in the crime. He has a past record and he was arrested in 1999 for being involved in an organ transplant racket,” he said.

full article:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25689-2523512,00.html

[MsVada]

 
 



How truly sad this story is  

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Those poor innocent babies. I can't stand to read any more about this one. It's too horrible for words.

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Terrible, if you were to read it in a fiction book...it might be something you would say is not believable. This sad article also brings to mind what a horrible reality it is in a country as poor as India, that it is not against the law to sell your own body parts. Infact it is not  uncommon for groups of populations there to infact have only one kidney....having sold the other for a couple of hundred dollars.    

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Theories and the missing links

Vidya Krishnan
New Delhi, January 2, 2007         
The Nithari murders are turning out to be a jigsaw puzzle where the pieces are just not falling in place. Four days of investigations have yielded precious little except theories.

Doctors nix organ trade angle

Missing torsos might have triggered speculation about organ trade but transplant specialists from hospitals in Noida are sceptical. “A person cannot murder someone and take the torso to the doctor within a few minutes and ensure a successful transplant. This can only be possible if the kidnapped child was killed after proper testing. And that is possible only if an entire hospital connives in murdering a person for his organs, which is again highly unlikely. This is a case of sexual perversion and killings,” said Dr Anil Goyal, Noida chapter of Indian Medical Association.

The doctors, however, do concede that it is too much of a coincidence that two psychopath killers, both with similar mental disorders, got together and started killing. It rarely happens, but that does not mean that the two killed with the motive of selling organs,” said Dr Vijay Khare, nephrologist, Fortis Hospitals.  The police are noncommittal. “We are investigating this angle, although at present we have not found any evidence which points to that. We had raided Dr Naveen Chowdhury’s residence and Noida Medical Centre. But nothing was found,” said SSP RKS Rathore.

complete article.....

http://tinyurl.com/yfpetw

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India orders high-level probe into child killings
03 Jan 2007 12:38:31 GMT
Source: Reuters
NEW DELHI, Jan 3 (Reuters) - India ordered a high-level probe on Wednesday into the discovery of skulls and bones of at least 17 people, many of them children, at a house outside New Delhi which police say is a gruesome case of serial killing.

The remains were dug up last week from the backyard of a house in Noida, an industrial town on the outskirts of the Indian capital. The incident has shocked the country and continues to make national headlines.

The victims had been reported missing by their relatives, some for as long as two years.

Police have arrested the businessman who owns the house and his domestic servant in connection with the case. There has been no word from the pair, and it was not immediately known if they had legal representation.

The high-level panel, comprising officials of the federal home and women and child development ministries, has been asked to report within a fortnight, a government statement said.

The panel will also look into alleged lapses by the police in investigating complaints about the missing children. Five policemen have been suspended for negligence, an official said.

full article
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DEL165641.htm

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Last Updated: Thursday, 4 January 2007, 10:31 GMT

Grisly secrets of Delhi suburb sewer

Noida parents wait for news of their missing children
One of the most shocking things about the killings in the Delhi satellite town of Noida is how close the 17 young victims lived to the foul drain where their remains were stashed in sacks.

Most were the children of poor migrants from other parts of India, who share rooms in a maze of thatched huts and brick shanties known as Nithari village.

The grisly discovery of their skeletons on Friday was made in one of the streets of smart suburban villas that edge the slum.

The distance between where the children used to play, and where the police say they were raped, murdered, and hacked to pieces, is no more than 100 metres.

The owner of house D5, Mohinder Singh Pandher, and his servant Satish Kohli have been charged with the killings, but investigations are continuing.

The police have not yet established their motive, the total number of victims or whether they had any accomplices.
complete article.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6228941.stm

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Another government forced to "do-the-right-thing" after the story makes headlines, and the world is watching.............to little to late.

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India police fired over missing children
2007/1

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE, Associated Press Writer Thu Jan 4, 3:21 PM ET

LUCKNOW, India - Authorities fired six policemen for failing to investigate dozens of missing children and women, a government official said Thursday, after 17 of their dismembered bodies turned up at a house in an affluent New Delhi suburb.

"More action may be taken against them and, if need be, cases can be lodged against them," Bajpai told The Associated Press in Lucknow, the state capital.

On Wednesday, a court ordered the state government to provide details of the children reported missing in the past year and the action taken by police to trace them.

The federal government on Wednesday ordered an inquiry into the response of local authorities to the disappearances.

full article........
http://www.onelocalnews.com/chandlernews-dispatch/ViewArticle.aspx?id=40157&source=2

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Mothers of dismembered children demand answers
POSTED: 12:43 p.m. EST, January 5, 2007

NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Sonia Bibi was devastated when she learned that her missing 9-year-old son was among 17 skeletal remains found in buried bags around a home in Noida, in suburban New Delhi -- a finding that shocked residents and raised heated accusations of police negligence.

Bibi said when she first told police two years ago that her son, Raja, was missing, they told her she "shouldn't have had so many children."

"Is your son in my pocket? I don't know where your son is," she quoted police as saying.

Bibi is like dozens of people in the slum village of Nithari who have claimed their children or spouses disappeared, but received little or no help from police.

Residents say as many as 38 people, many of them children, are missing and many are now believed to be dead -- murdered and preyed upon by a serial killer or killers.

Of the 17 remains found so far, initial autopsy reports from the Noida government hospital indicate the victims were killed as recently as three months ago and as far back as three years ago. The house where the remains were found is in an affluent area adjacent to Nithari.

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/01/05/india.bodies/

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6 more missing in Noida in last one week
Rahul Tripathi

New Delhi, January 6: People are still going missing in Noida. In the last one week, after the Nithari killings came to lights, as many as six missing persons complaints have been reported in the area.

However, senior officers of the Noida Police said they had become more cautious. Every complaint is being looked into, and a case is being registered wherever necessary, they said.

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“My son Amit Kumar, 18, has been missing since January 2,” said Madan Gopal, a resident of Raipur Khadar near Sector 39 in Noida. “I searched for him in the neighbourhood, but all in vain, Finally, I went to the police station and lodged a missing complaint. The police were very proactive this time and immediately registered my complaint,” he added.

full article.....
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=216401

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Noidakillings
Police failed to probe missing Noida girls
Sunday, January 7, 2007 (Noida):

Police in Noida say they did not have any case against the two serial killers arrested last Friday.

But police had registered a FIR against them - Moninder Singh and Surinder Kohli in November 2006 for kidnapping a girl.

NDTV has the information that on May 6 when the girl, Payal, went missing, Surinder had made a call from his mobile phone to her.

The girl had gone to their house that day but never returned.

The next day, her father went to police with a complaint against Moninder and Surinder but the police refused to register his complaint.

Later he went to Noida's Chief Judicial Magistrate requesting him to get the police to register his complaint.

The CJM ordered the police to register a case of kidnapping against Moninder and Surinder.

full article....
http://tinyurl.com/wcqfv

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Noida prompts city police to look into cases of 550 missing kids

 Tuesday, January 09, 2007 8:48:10 IST
The police are shocked at the number of cases registered at the Missing Persons Bureau and have taken up investigations seriously

article..........
http://tinyurl.com/yx3d5u

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More bones recovered

Ashok Kumar

NOIDA: A forensic experts' team from Agra, which collected samples from near the house of Moninder Singh Pandher, prime accused in the Noida case, has recovered 30 more bones during an inspection of the scene of killings. The bones have been sent to Noida Civil Hospital for examination.

"The findings are being analysed. Preliminary findings indicate that bones from the torsos are missing, but it might take a couple of days before any inference can be drawn. One more bone was sent to us today for post-mortem," said a senior doctor at the hospital on Wednesday. Only forensic tests could establish whether they belonged to the earlier bunch.

Blood samples of three more family members of missing children were taken on Wednesday and sent for DNA matching. Earlier, the hospital authorities collected blood samples of 29 individuals related to 14 victims.

Meanwhile, a local court extended the police custody of Moninder and his domestic servant Surender alias Satish till January 12.

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2007011112100100.htm&date=2007/01/11/&prd=th&

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Nithari: CBI to quiz missing help’s husband today
Amandeep Shukla

New Delhi, January 24: While Moninder Singh Pandher’s long time domestic help, Maya, is undergoing tests the CBI is preparing to delve into the secret disappearance of his other help—Nanda Devi. According to sources, Nanda Devi’s husband, Dilbahadur Shahi, would be questioned by CBI sleuths in Delhi on Thursday.

Newsline had first reported the story of Nanda Devi, who had worked in Pandher’s house D-5 for around six months. Nanda had been reported missing on October 31, 2006. Dilbahadur had, at that time, told Newsline that Nanda Devi had worked in 2005 for Pandher.

He had also said that she would often come home with tales about Moninder Singh “activities”. “When she told me that Moninder had been asking for a female masseur, I was angry. I already suspected them and told her to quit at that time,” Dilbahadur had said.
Nithari: CBI to quiz missing help’s husband today
Amandeep Shukla

New Delhi, January 24: While Moninder Singh Pandher’s long time domestic help, Maya, is undergoing tests the CBI is preparing to delve into the secret disappearance of his other help—Nanda Devi. According to sources, Nanda Devi’s husband, Dilbahadur Shahi, would be questioned by CBI sleuths in Delhi on Thursday.

Newsline had first reported the story of Nanda Devi, who had worked in Pandher’s house D-5 for around six months. Nanda had been reported missing on October 31, 2006. Dilbahadur had, at that time, told Newsline that Nanda Devi had worked in 2005 for Pandher.

He had also said that she would often come home with tales about Moninder Singh “activities”. “When she told me that Moninder had been asking for a female masseur, I was angry. I already suspected them and told her to quit at that time,” Dilbahadur had said.
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=219193

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No organ trade in Noida killings
Published: Sunday, 28 January, 2007, 08:24 AM Doha Time

NEW DELHI: Putting to rest speculations of organ trade being a motive behind the macabre serial killings of children in Noida by a psychopath duo, investigative agencies yesterday said that the autopsy done on nearly 42 bags of human remains had found intact livers, intestines and other organs.
According to sources in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi that carried out the post mortem had ruled out an organ trade racket.
“The autopsy report is not indicating towards any organ trade racket,” a CBI official told IANS on condition of anonymity.
The official said the post mortem report had not indicated any such involvement as several torsos and internal organs were present in the plastic packets found in the ditches behind the house of prime accused businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his servant Surendra Koli.
The Uttar Pradesh Police were exploring the organ trade theory after the Noida Civil Hospital in its autopsy report said that organ trade could be one of the motives behind the crime.
A central enquiry committee set up by the Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury too had said in its report that the organ trade angle should be probed thoroughly.
It was on December 29 last year that the first skeletal remains were found from the Noida house of Pandher. In the next few days, the nation was riveted with horror as 17 skulls and several bones were discovered from the drains.
Pandher and Surendra were arrested for sexually abusing and killing at least 20 children, mainly from Nithari village that is barely 100m from the businessman’s bungalow.
Over the last two years, 38 children have gone missing from Nithari, home to over 25,000 people, mostly migrants from West Bengal, who earn their livelihood by pulling rickshaws, working as daily-wage labourers or as domestic help in the nearby residential colonies.
The missing person complaints lodged by parents had, however, gone unheard until the remains were found.
After the CBI took over the investigation from Uttar Pradesh Police, it unearthed three more skulls and around 42 bags of human remains from two drains near Pandher’s house. All the human remains were send to AIIMS for post mortem.
The master-servant duo is currently in CBI custody. Indo-Asian News Service.

http://tinyurl.com/ytfkzt

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Rajeev Sabharwal is new SSP Noida

Kapil Datta

Noida, February 8, 2007
The newly-appointed senior superintendent of Police of Noida, Rajeev Sabharwal, who took charge of the district on Thursday said redressal of public grievances and improving the image of Noida Police that was tarnished after the Nithari episode would be his priority.

Sabarwal replaces RKS Rathore who was transferred out of Noida after a high-level enquiry committee of Uttar Pradesh government indicted him for ignoring the complains of the parents of Nithari victims who had gone missing.

The victims' skeletal remains were recovered from a drain outside accused Mohinder Singh Pandher's house in Sector 31. Pandher's servant, Surinder Koli, is the second accused in the case.

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1923148,000900010004.htm

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BB, thanks for updating this thread.  What a truly weird case.  I'm pleased that due to a little publicity, officials are at least trying to do the right thing.  An actual investigation!  What a novelty!  
Will keep following this story with your help.

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Monday , March 19, 2007

60 families on way to Nithari for their own missing kids

Bulandshahar, March 18: The heat over the Nithari killings might be fading in the background but 100 poor people from as many as 60 families hailing from Eastern UP are doing a novel gesture by marching 800 kilometres on foot from Varanasi to reach Nithari this Monday.

The families, each of whom have a missing child, say they are coming to show solidarity with the affected Nithari families. Newsline met the family members, including many women, near Bulandshahar — they had started the foot-march on February 20 from Varanasi.

“We come from five districts of Eastern UP — Varanasi, Jaunpur, Azamgarh, Mau and Ghazipur. Each family here has lost a child or a family member but the police have treated it as a routine case and have done nothing. We read about Nithari and always wanted to go there and share the grief but never had the funds to take the trip. Now we decided to walk till Nithari,” says Mahant Singh, holding a banner.

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http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=227325

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9-7-07
A new twist to Nithari killings case

Key witness in trial against Pandher found dead 

BEHRAMPUR/GHAZIABAD: The ongoing trial in the Pinki Sarkar murder case as part of the Nithari serial killings has suffered a setback now with the victim’s father, who was also a complainant, being found dead in West Bengal.

The body of Jatin Sarkar, a key witness in the bizarre case, was recovered from the Bhagirathi river in Murshidabad district over the weekend. His wife Vandana said the mishap took place while Sarkar was taking a bath in the river. She, however, did not rule out that her husband might have been murdered.

“He was an important witness in the Nithari killings case and there is every possibility that he was murdered,” she said. Sarkar was a key witness against the then Police Circle Officer Dinesh Yadav and prime accused Moninder Singh Pandher. According to Baharampur SP Rahul Srivastava, post-mortem reports said Sarkar had died of drowning.

Neighbours said Sarkar was swept away by strong water currents and they recovered him and rushed him to hospital where he was declared brought dead.

Sarkar’s daughter Pinki was one of the victims of the ghastly Nithari killings in which scores of little children, mostly girls, were allegedly raped and killed by Pandher and his domestic help Surendra Koli. The CBI had given a clean chit to Pandher in most of the cases while charging Koli with rape and murder.

Sarkar had filed a petition, along with the parents of two other Nithari victims, in the court of Special CBI Judge Sapna Mishra in Ghaziabad on April 28 seeking a re-investigation of the case. At least 17 human skulls and bones were dug up from near Pandher’s bungalow in Noida’s Sector 31 last December.

Sarkar’s counsel Khalid Khan said the death would benefit Pandher in a big way.“Nothing can be done to Pandher in the Pinki Sarkar murder now and only Surender Koli will be prosecuted,” he said. - PTI

http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/07/stories/2007090757050100.htm

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Nithari Killings: The Roar of a Cannibal

A year goes by and two psychopaths smirk in the aftermath of sin. What screams for justice is a heinous slaying, a nerve raking cold-blooded murder in the name of fate: 19 killings seem to have withered in the fog of time..

31 Dec 2007   

THE NARROW dwindling lanes of an impoverished neighborhood in Noida stand overlooking a sophisticated colony. Who cold have known that kothi number D-5 was the house of several corpses? Owned by Noida-based businessman Moninder Singh Pandher, the kothi was nothing less than a slaughterhouse for innocent children and women who stepped out of their homes not knowing that they were never going to return.
 
If we rewind the time a year back, we cannot forget that gory day when the gruesome Nithari killings came to light from a dirty drain in Noida. There was a sense of overwhelming evil at the crime scene as bits of bone, plastic bags full of entrails, children’s body parts, skulls, shoes, tiffin boxes and bits of clothing were dug out.
 
The ghoulish killings were carried out by Surendra Koli, Pandher’s domestic help allegedly a cannibal and a necrophiliac. For several months the decomposed remains of the chilling murders were dug from the hellish pit. The raped and murdered children and women screamed for justice. The moments when they were being tortured and cast into a living hell cannot be expressed in words but they certainly cannot go unnoticed in the name of a weak administration, careless system and greedy investigation.
 
According to the alleged, Surender Koli, “I used to kill only women and children —mostly girls. It was as if I’d go out of my senses. I couldn’t even recall anything later. I’d call the victim and ask her if she was looking for work or lure a kid with a smile or some nice words. Then I’d kill my victim and try to have sex with them. Then I’d take them to the bathroom and cut their body in pieces and throw them behind the house. I’d even cook the flesh at times and eat it.”
 
Anita Mehra, a psychiatrist says, “A deep rooted scar or a certain incident in the past can trigger such instances. We are living in a society where cannibalism is considered to be abnormal. People like Koli are potentially dangerous to the society. What he did is a gruesome act and no one in their right mind would even think about such a thing.”
 
Leela Rai, a housewife, opines, “I am really scared for my children after the Nithari killings came to light. I dismissed both my male domestic helps and have now settled in for a lady who was known to my mother in the village. It is very difficult for one to say anything about anyone these days. I am so scared that I don’ let my children step out of the house after 5:30 in the evening.”
 
It has been a year since the Nithari killings were revealed. The incident seemed to have taken the country by shock. But our authorities that seem to be sleeping most of the time are lazing around weary of hearing the pleas for help by grieving parents and relatives of those who were victimized.
 
According to a report, out of 19 cases registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for the Nithari serial rapes and killings, the agency has only completed 11. Pandher has been given a clean chit in 10 cases having been indicted only for one— soliciting women for sex.   
 
In an interview, Koli had mentioned that Moninder often brought call girls home and that was what had triggered these killings. He had also stated that a couple of times he had given the coked human flesh to Pandher as well.
 
The judiciary might have given hope of justice to the mourning parents of the victims by framing charges of rape and murder against Pandher but on the other hand the CBI is facing charges that it was devastating the prosecution.
 
The enraged parents brought to light the reality of our good old police force stating that even after visiting the police station a number of times, no complaint was registered about the missing children and women. This leads us to think what kind of system are we following as citizens and when will the time come for the authorities to wake up?
 
A grieving father says, “I went to the police station to get my complaint filed. They did not entertain me. They said that if they found my child they would get back to me.”
 
The police seem to have treated the matter rather lightly. This has further triggered discontent in the minds of the people of Nithari.
 
In Payal’s case (victim), the CBI had filed its first charge sheet in Ghaziabad releasing Pandher and charging Koli with the crime despite being aware of the confessions given by Pandher and Koli in the initial probe by the Noida police that both of them were equal partners in the crime.
 
Arjun Khetripal, businessman says, “ If Pandher is one of the criminals and the CBI defends him for money or anything else, how safe will it be for a serial killer to be on the lose? It might happen that a few years down the line when everybody forgets about the Nithari killings, he ends up murdering few more innocent children.”
 
Neharika Modi, ombudsperson, says, “The Nithari killings should be an eye opener for our government and authorities. The murderer is on the prowl and no one is ready to do anything about it. The grieving parents want justice. They what the two to be hanged and why not? How safe would it be for two cannibals to be defended? If a tiger becomes a man-eater, we shoot it. Here we are talking about the psychology of the human brain that can think, plan and conduct.”
 
There was sufficient evidence to prosecute Pandher on charges of rape and murder in four cases — Payal.

Pinki Sarkar’s father drowned in the Ganges in Behrampur in Murshidabad district in West Bengal under mysterious circumstances. His wife moved the Supreme Court alleging that the CBI was behind this and that her husband was getting constant threats to withdraw his charges against Pandher. 
 
The nation watches on, as the parents of the murdered await justice. What will be the final outcome of Nithari killings? This is one question that has been boggling the minds of thousands of parents and children all across the country. Every time I cross the road leading to the dreadful D-5 a chill races up my spine at the thought of what might have happened there.  A bloodthirsty pair of eyes might be following a child somewhere, the next moment there would be an empty swing creaking in an isolated playground with boiled body parts being served on someone’s dining table.
http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=128954