Cannibal and necrophile kill, rape and dismember dozens of children in India
Pastor Dale Morgan
Cannibal and necrophile kill, rape and dismember dozens of children in
India*
25.01.2007
A government investigation into the gruesome murders of about 20 women
and children in India on Wednesday criticised police and local officials
for ignoring reports of missing children mainly because they were poor.
The case, which has shocked the entire nation, came to light last month
when human remains – including body parts and skulls, mostly of children
– were found in the backyard and drain of a rich businessman's house in
Noida, a satellite town of New Delhi.
The businessman and his domestic servant have been arrested.
In a statement, a special committee set up by the ministry of women and
child development to probe the case said it was 'evident' that there was
'apathy' and indifference' by local authorities and police to the
reports of missing children.
'The committee has observed that the victims' families did not receive
any support or cooperation from the administration of the community
until very recently,' said the statement.
'It was felt that reporting and investigating of case of children
missing are not necessary priority especially from poor families.'
The police, who apparently ignored complaints for more than two years,
is also under scrutiny by the country's top investigating agency, the
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which took over the case a week ago.
Authorities sacked six policemen and suspended four others for
negligence but accusations against the police continue, Reuters reports.
Federal detectives have issued a public appeal for information to help
unravel India’s most macabre serial killings in decades, officials said
yesterday.
The national notice was published late Tuesday as the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) broadened its search beyond Nithari, the village
where 42 bags packed with human body parts have been found so far.
Officially 19 people have been murdered, but the media says the toll
could exceed 40, gulf-times.com reports.
A six-year-old girl says she is ready to testify that she was stalked
for days by Nithari serial-killing suspect Surendra Koli, who allegedly
tried to walk her into the white mansion around which dozens of children
were killed and dumped. The girl says Maya, a maid at the house where
Koli and his co-accused Moninder Singh Pandher lived, too made a similar
attempt on one occasion.
Lawyers say schoolgirl Mehnaz Khan, whose friend Pooja was one of the
victims of the alleged serial killers, could become a key witness in the
investigation against Koli.
Mehnaz's mother Shamshad Begum said Mehnaz had shuddered when she saw
the white-coloured house and Koli's face on television last month,
hindustantimes.com reports.
Speeding up its investigations in the Nithari serial killings, the CBI
said that there were no evidence so far of Cannibalism on the part of
either of the main accused Moninder Singh Pandher and Surendra Koli.
Forensic experts of the CBI said on Wednesday that they have got enough
evidence to confirm that 22 killings took place in Nithari village of
Noida. However, as of yet Cannibalism is ruled out on the basis of
eveidence got so far.
The CBI will begin collecting the DNA samples of parents claiming to
have lost their offsprings in Nithari serial killings even as the agency
held consultations with forensic experts on solving the case.
Hence, the collection of DNA samples of those claiming that their kin
had been murdered by Koli in the infamous D-5 house of Pandher has been
given top priority, zeenews.com says.
Source: agencies
Prepared by Alexander Timoshik
Pravda.ru