Indian Serial Killers

[ramonmercado]

'Body trade' link to child deaths
By Mark Dummett
BBC News, Delhi



Police say their investigation is still continuing
Police in India are investigating whether the deaths of at least 17 people, most of them children, could be linked to the human body parts trade.

The victims' skulls and limbs were discovered in a sewer in a Delhi suburb on Friday but many torsos were missing.

The police say they are checking connections between two men they have arrested and a local doctor.

The find provoked fury among nearby slum dwellers, who said police ignored complaints about missing children.

Police 'responsible'

A local businessman and his servant have been arrested and questioned over multiple rape-murder and abduction allegations following protests by the victims' families.


The remains of the children were found hidden in bags

Police in the Delhi suburb of Noida are under intense pressure to find out what happened to the missing children.

Local people, the media and political parties are all closely watching where their investigations are leading.

Many people hold the police partially responsible for the deaths.

The first disappearances were reported two years ago but the victims' parents say they were simply ignored.

Grieving parents

Most are poor migrants who work as servants in the smart villas that surround their slums.

Police say that the arrested businessman, Mohinder Singh Pandher, and his helper, Satish, lured young girls and children.

Their corpses were discovered in a drain outside the house on Friday.

The people of the area say that many more of their children are still missing.

On Monday some of them attacked policemen and vandalised the businessman's house.

Now there is just a sad vigil of grieving parents.

They are holding photos of their missing children and asking why no-one listened to them earlier.



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[OldTimeRadio]

Ugly

Genuinely ugly stuff.

There was a Russian grandmother just two or three years back who sold her young grandson to be used for spare parts.

Fortunately for the kid, the "buyer" was an undercover Russian cop.

 

[ramonmercado]

Tests on India killings accused

The remains of the children were found hidden in bags

Two men accused of killing 17 young women and children in a suburb of the Indian capital, Delhi, are undergoing tests using a truth drug.
The businessman and his servant will also be subjected to brain mapping tests at a forensic laboratory in the western state of Gujarat.

The two were arrested last week after the remains of the victims were found in a sewer the suburb of Noida.

Several policemen have been sacked for alleged incompetence over the murders.

In a report, the Hindustan Times newspaper says the accused will be injected with sodium pentothal, also known as truth serum, in the hope they will lose their capacity to lie.

Not foolproof

The report quotes Dr JM Vyas, director of the laboratory based in Gujarat's capital, Gandhinagar, as saying: "Some individuals reveal much within half an hour while others may take hours."

Officials say the tests may take up to three days and it will be days before the results will be known. The Gandhinagar laboratory is one of the few in the country with the facilities for such tests.

Experts say the narco-analysis tests are not foolproof. Also, they are not admissible in court.


Police control angry crowds outside the house

But police say these tests will help them in their investigation and provide vital clues about how the men's minds work.

The crime has shocked the country and resulted in immense public anger in Noida, especially against the police whom many accuse of negligence and dereliction of duty.

Furious residents have accused police of failing to act over the abductions and murders because many of those reported missing came from impoverished families.

The residents say that as many as 40 children have disappeared in the area over the past two years.

Officials say that those accused of incompetence will be given an opportunity to explain their case, after which a panel will decide on further action.

On Monday, there was rioting around what the press has begun to refer to as the Noida "house of horrors", with police being pelted with stones.



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[Mighty_Emperor]

Grisly secrets of Delhi suburb sewer

By Mark Dummett
BBC News, Noida

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.

'Hushed up'

Jal Gopal helped dig the sacks out of the drain. He recognised his three-year-old nephew Harsh's sandals and clothes in one of them.

The big people can pay money to get their cases investigated properly. But they won't listen to us
Iti Vishwas,
Mother of missing girl

"He was playing near the house and disappeared all of a sudden. At the time we thought he must have just lost his way since he was such a young kid."

Harsh went missing nearly a year ago. Parents say that more than 30 children and young women from Nithari vanished in the past two years.

Like the others, Mr Gopal complains the police did not take his nephew's disappearance seriously, and is furious that they did not arrest the suspects earlier.

"We complained about those two men, who have now been arrested, six months back. A severed hand was discovered in that drain but the police wanted to hush up the case. They asked us not to tell anyone," he said.

Iti Vishwas's 11-year-old daughter Pushpa was also among the victims.

She went missing last May, but Mrs Vishwas believes the police did nothing to help because she is poor.

She comes originally from West Bengal in eastern India, and like most people in Nithari works as domestic servant for a rich neighbour.

"The big people can pay money to get their cases investigated properly. But they won't listen to us. They didn't listen to us," she says.

Phone clue

The people of Nithari's shock and grief boiled over into anger at the police earlier this week.

There was shocking inaction by the police in such an important case
Former police commissioner Ved Marwah

They also attacked Mr Pandher's house and that of his neighbour who is also being questioned.

Afterwards some policemen retaliated, and charged through the narrow alleys of the slum, beating men and women with their bamboo sticks, or lathis.

Senior officers deny they have mishandled the case because the victims were poor.

"This is not true. There were no clues, there was no suspicion regarding this person," superintendent of police for Noida city Saumitra Yadav said.

The investigation into the missing children took detectives to red light districts in Mumbai, Agra and other cities, he said, where it was suspected the children had been trafficked.

"Finally an adult girl went missing, and we got the clues through her mobile phone. Using electronic surveillance we caught the real culprit, and he spilled the beans."

Mr Yadav confirmed several policemen had been suspended following allegations they had accepted bribes, but said there was no proof this had happened.

According to a former commissioner of police, Ved Marwah, who is now a professor at New Delhi's Centre of Policy Research, it is more likely the police were careless rather than corrupt.

He believes they missed basic clues which allowed the crimes to go unchecked for two years.

"There was shocking inaction by the police in such an important case. The police in some states in our country are no longer functioning as a professional police force," he said.

Waiting for news

Children are once again playing in the streets near the house where their friends were killed.

But the atmosphere remains tense. There is a vigil of parents whose own children's fates are still unknown.

They hold scuffed photos of their loved ones and wait for news.

Noida is one of northern India's new boom towns, its economy driven by call centres and software companies.

But as the people of Nithari have discovered, it can be an awful place to be poor.
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Published: 2007/01/04 10:31:54 GMT

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Noida Killer ate liver of children to get heat

2007-01-06 15:53:42



Gujarat Global News Network, Ahmedabad

Some gory facts have come up during the interrogation of the Noida serial killers who are undergoing narco tests in the Forensic laboratory in Gandhinagar. According to sources one of the accused Surinder confessed to be a cannibal. He is the servant of the main accused Mohinder Singh.

Though the officers investigating in the case do not rule out the possibility of cannibalism and sex with the victims. After reports of Surinder eating liver of the victims appearing in a national daily today TV channels have started flashing the news of Surinder’s ghastly acts.

One remarkable thing that the investigators have observed is the stoic expression on the faces of both the accused signifying that they have no remorse of their action. Several teams of experts of DFS questioned the two about their social and financial background.

The police had arrested the two psychopathic killers after skeletons of children kept in bags were found near a water tank in the Nithari village in Noida. A total of 38 children, most of them minor girls, were missing in the area for the past two years.

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The Nithari Killings - Child Cannibalism in India

January 06, 2007
Rajen Nair

This is one of the most macabre tales of child cannibalism. The incident came to light when, by chance, human bones were discovered in the backyard drain running across the sprawling bungalow of the main accused, Mohinder Singh.

Mohinder Singh is a local businessman residing in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, North India. The finding of human bones had led to the police raiding his house and carrying out digging operation in his courtyard. Shockingly more human bones and skills were recovered.

Mohinder Singh and his Man Friday, Surendra Koli, were immediately taken into custody. In a shocking confession to the police Surendra Koli confessed to killing 17 persons, many of whom were children. The police said that Surendra, apart from supplying call girls to his master, would also lure innocent children passing outside the bungalow with the false pretext of offering sweets.

Once the victims were drawn inside the dingy rooms of the house, his master Mohinder would sexually assault the children. After fulfilling his lust, the children were either strangulated or hacked to death. It was left to his servant Surendra to dismember the bodies and dump them in the backyard drain.

Surprisingly this gruesome killing went on for two years without the local police having any clues. What is most baffling about the local police is their ineptitude and callousness, despite receiving many written complaints of missing persons from the victims' parents.

Now it has come to light that the paedophile Mohinder was arrested in the past, but he managed to walk out of the police station, allegedly by bribing the local police officer with Rs.2.5 lakhs. Unfortunately, many lives would have been saved had the police refused to be bribed and instead put Mohinder under arrest.

Another baffling mystery is that though the police have discovered many human bones and skulls, the torso is still missing from the bodies. Many theories are doing the rounds about the motives for killing, such as besides the sexual angle, the victims' vital organs were removed and traded in the market.

Just as the whole nation was coming to grips with this gruesome incident, the latest confession from Surendra has jolted the collective conscience of everyone. Surendra, having absolved his master Mohinder of committing any crime, has admitted to killing all the victims. He would cut up the bodies and then slit them down the middle to reach the organs, mainly the liver which he would then eat. This human flesh eating incident reminds us of the film The Silence of the Lambs.

In the political map of India, Uttar Pradesh is a very important state. It is about to go for assembly elections. The insensitive politicians cutting across all parties have given this ghastly incident a political colour by promising to make it their election plank in the coming election. This speaks of the rot that has set in the Indian political system.

http://desicritics.org/2007/01/06/104052.php

Cannibal claims in Delhi murders

* Bruce Loudon, South Asia correspondent
* January 08, 2007

NEW DELHI: Claims of cannibalism in the New Delhi "House of Horrors" child murder case emerged yesterday amid reports that the main suspect bribed police to thwart an investigation when parents first came forward.
Millionaire Moninder Singh Pandher, known as "Goldy", was arrested a year ago following complaints by parents who suspected he knew something about their missing children, The Times of India reported.

"But Moninder walked out of the police station the same night, allegedly after paying 250,000 rupees ($7200) to the police," the newspaper said.

"Had it not been for a few greedy police officers in Noida, lives of over a dozen victims of Nithari (village) could possibly have been saved."

No independent backing for the claims made by the newspaper was immediately available, and none was expected from police investigators defensive about their officers' actions.

But several police from Nithari have been suspended and are under investigation over failure to check the early complaints of missing children.

No less sensational yesterday were the claims of cannibalism involving Pandher's co-accused, his manservant Surendra Kohli, with reports he had admitted killing many of the children and eating parts of their bodies.

"This is probably the reason why torsos of the bodies have not been found," the paper said.

The pair are accused of kidnapping and abusing up to 40 children, mostly girls, before strangling them and cutting up their bodies, which were reportedly left in a drain outside his mansion in Noida, on the outskirts of Delhi.

An oven on the terrace of Pandher's house has been checked by investigators.

"Fragments of human flesh were found in the coal-fired oven," the newspaper said.

"Several large cans of acids and other chemicals, which could have been used to dissolve the bodies, are also learnt to have been found on the same terrace," it reported.

In the first statement from a member of Pander's family, his son, Karandeep Singh, 25, has defended his father as innocent, saying he loved children.

"Ever since my childhood he has showered me with love and affection. He has even taken care of some of our relatives' children," Singh said.

"Tell me, which psychopath or pedophile, as my father is being falsely projected, would show such qualities?"

Singh said he had been raised as a "king" and that good education was stressed.

The family had been "shocked and traumatised" by the allegations.

"He was and still is a good father," Singh said. "I firmly believe my father could not do this heinous crime. I think somebody is behind all this. The confessions are being made under pressure."

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Golden boy turns serial child-killer

* Bruce Loudon, South Asia correspondent
* January 06, 2007

HE is an alumnus of one of the subcontinent's most prestigious and expensive schools, Bishop Cotton at Bangalore, which dates back more than 100 years to the days of the British Raj and has as its motto the noble injunction "Overcome Evil with Good".
Today, however, there are only evil in perceptions of Moninder Singh Pandher, the millionaire New Delhi businessman at the centre of what is emerging as oneof the world's most horrendous cases of sexual depravity and pedophile serial killing.

The Indian media has dubbed him the Butcher of Noida -- in articles accompanied by Class of '73 pictures of a neatly dressed and turbaned Bishop Cotton student, known to his mates as Goldy.

He is accused with his manservant, Surendra Kohli, of as many as 40 cases of kidnapping young children, mainly little girls, raping and abusing them -- in some instances after they had died -- strangling them and then cutting up their bodies before disposing of the remains in a drain outside his house at Noida, on Delhi's outskirts.

Forensic experts said yesterday the bodies had been sliced precisely and systematically, as detailed in an autopsy report on the remains of 17 corpses dug out of the drain. The report said 11 of the victims were young girls.

"Post-mortem tests reveal the bodies were cut with butcher-like precision," said surgeon Vinod Kumar. "Whoever did it, they cut through the bones very systematically."

The case has exposed the dark underbelly of life in the teeming Indian capital, even as the country races towards record economic growth and projected superpower status.

Noida is not out in the sticks. It is one of Delhi's fastest-growing satellites, a place that is attracting much of the call-centre and IT investment pouring into the country, and the proposed site of what it is claimed will be the world's tallest building.

But the reality is that as Pandher and Kohli allegedly went about the gruesome business of raping and murdering dozens of small children and at least one woman over one or two years, the pleas of parents whose children had gone missing were treated with contempt by the police.

The parents say they went to police dozens of times, and the first missing-person reports were lodged in 2005.

But the police did nothing. For these were children of a lesser god -- the children of dirt-poor people with neither money nor influence, humble and impoverished migrants from rural areas of India, rickshaw pullers, street sweepers and labourers.

They are the people whose awful lot in life this week was to stand and watch as investigators dug up the fetid drain outside Pandher's house of horrors, uncovering cheap rubber sandals, little polka-dotted blouses, a faded blue shirt, plastic trinkets, even pieces of cloth from which they could identify their children as victims of the Butcher of Noida.

The parents believe that had the police acted on the first complaints, many lives could have been saved.

Reacting to the growing public anger, authorities in Uttar Pradesh yesterday sacked six of the local police and suspended three others.

Sunil Biswas, a rickshaw puller from West Bengal, who tried to file a complaint about his 10-year-old daughter Pushpa, who went missing from the local school in April last year, said: "Policemen were reluctant to take the complaint and also misbehaved with me and my wife and showered abuses on us.

"They told us: 'Why do you produce children if you cannot take care ofthem?"'

The impoverished world of Mr Biswas and his fellow mourners is light years away from Goldy Pandher's life of money, flash cars, power and influence -- a life in which he hunted tigers and leopards and collected fine spirits, boasting a well-stocked bar that included Goldschlager liqueur with flecks of real gold floating in it.

Pandher, now in his late 50s, grew up in an affluent family and built a fortune running a trucking company. According to reports yesterday. he has friends in high places and is well-known to a number of leading Punjabi politicians in India's dominant Congress party.

He is the sort of person who, in India in 2007, can get away with murder.

Friends spoke yesterday of "a highly intelligent man with a good sense of humour". Deepak Kumar Thakur, a lawyer who was at school with him, declared: "I have known Pandher since 1964 when we were in class. I have no reason to believe he could be involved in such a crime, until the court proves him guilty."

However, the police have no such reservations. They have charged Pandher and Kohli with offences ranging from kidnapping to rape and murder.

Only the number of offences is in doubt, according to police, with the search for human remains continuing. Parents say at least 38 children have gone missing in the area.

Both men are under interrogation, the police say. Kohli has reportedly admitted enticing the children into the house, using lollies as bait.

All the children were strangled. Their bodies were dismembered with a saw, and the remains dumped in the drain. Extraordinarily, the smell of decaying human flesh in the drain caused no suspicion. But that probably says as much as anything about what is taken for normal on some of India's streets.

Kohli admits his complicity, according to police, but says he was only obeying his master's orders. Under interrogation, Pandher gives little away. But investigators are sure of their case.

What remains a mystery, however, is just what led Pandher to face the allegations now made against him. According to reports, he has been living separately from his wife, but is a devoted father to an only son who has been studying in Canada.

Some friends talk of him going off the rails after a few drinks. Of dark moods. Of a penchant for prostitutes. But most find the odyssey from bright and shiny pupil at Bishop Cotton to accused serial killer hard to comprehend.

India is a country where, according to the National Human Rights Commission, more than 45,000 children go missing every year, and where the tragic helplessness of the Noida parents in the face of cruel police inaction is replicated many times over.

Too often, neglect such as that seen in the case of the Butcher of Noida proves the antithesis of the Bishop Cotton motto, and evil triumphs over good.

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[Anonymous]

Killed for body parts thats so disturbing.

 

[OldTimeRadio]

Killed for body parts thats so disturbing.

Indeed. But there are many things about it which make absolutely no sense to me.

Even the world's most unethical and criminal transplant surgeon is STILL a surgeon and as such has to maintain some quality-of-control.

What is ANY transplant surgeon supposed to do with an organ of unknown age, unknown medical history and most importantly unknown blood type?

If a heart or liver is of the incorrect blood type the recipient's likely to die right on the operating table. if not, within hours or days. Even an illegal surgeon has to perform SUCCESSFUL surgery, because like any other surgeon he (she) depends on repeat customers and recommendations.

A few years ago a 73-year-old alcoholic was found murdered in Phialadelphia. His heart, lungs, liver, kidneys had been removed. According to police and the newspapers the organs were intended for illegal transplantation.

Come again? What's the current market for the heart of a 73-year-old alcoholic? Or his liver, for the Good Lord's sake?

You put that 73-year-old heart into 47-year-old crime czar Trigger Mike and Mike's brothers are going to come looking for you real soon.

 

[ramonmercado]

Court hearing over India suspects

The remains of the children were found hidden in bags
A court in a suburb of the Indian capital, Delhi, has extended the remand period of two men accused of killing 17 young women and children by two days.
The businessman and his servant were sent to the western state of Gujarat for taking polygraph lie-detector tests. They are due in court on Friday.

The two were arrested 10 days ago after the remains of the victims were found in a sewer in the suburb of Noida.

They are being held on suspicion of multiple abduction, rape and murder.

'Co-operated'

A prosecution lawyer, appearing on behalf of the police, told a court in Noida that businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his servant Surender Koli could not be physically produced before the court.

He said the two men were undergoing more tests in a forensic laboratory in Gandhinagar, capital of the western state of Gujarat

The two accused have been put through five days of tests, including polygraph tests for lie detection and brain mapping.

They were also administered a chemical, known as "truth serum" which, experts say, leads to a state of semi-consciousness and affects a person's ability to lie.

The director of the laboratory, Dr JM Vyas, said the two men co-operated during the tests.


Police control angry crowds outside the house

He said they will undergo a medical examination before they return to Noida.

The results of the tests may not be known for some more time as experts at the laboratory say they will need a few days to interpret and analyse the results.

The laboratory in Gujarat capital, Gandhinagar, is one of the few in the country with the facilities for such tests.

Police say these tests will help them in their investigation and provide vital clues about how the men's minds work.

Incompetence

The crime has shocked the country and caused immense grief and public anger in Noida, especially against the police whom many accuse of negligence and dereliction of duty.

Furious residents say police failed to act over the abductions and murders because many of those reported missing came from impoverished families.

The residents say that as many as 40 children have disappeared in the area over the past two years.

Several Noida policemen have been sacked for alleged incompetence over the murders.

Officials say that those accused of incompetence will be given an opportunity to explain their case, after which a panel will decide on further action.

There has been rioting around what the press has begun to refer to as the Noida "house of horrors", with police being pelted with stones.


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[OldTimeRadio]

This is sounding less and less like murders-for-organs and more and more like the human sacrifices of children which have plagued sections of India for centuries, and which make the Western press every two or three months.

Or we may just have two exceptionally evil murderers akin to Illinois' John Wayne Gacy.

 

[ramonmercado]

This is sounding less and less like murders-for-organs and more and more like the human sacrifices of children which have plagued sections of India for centuries, and which make the Western press every two or three months.

Or we may just have two exceptionally evil murderers akin to Illinois' John Wayne Gacy.

I think one of your suggestions is probably correct. Theres no real evidence to suggest organ-legging was involved.

 

[ramonmercado]

Another case.

Punjab

Police in India are investigating the murders of four children, whose bodies were found at an abandoned rice mill in the northern state of Punjab. The children, all under the age of 13, were reported missing in November and have been identified by their parents.

Police said the hands and legs of the victims were tied and there were burn marks on the bodies.


The rice mill in Muktsar district is owned by a senior politician of Punjab's governing Congress party, Jagmeet Singh Brar, but police say there is no evidence to link the politician with the case.

Police say it appears that an attempt was made to burn the four bodies. They have registered a case of murder and destruction of evidence.

Foul smell

District police chief, G Nageshwar Rao, said the bodies were badly decomposed.


The killings in Noida have caused immense anger

Mr Rao said the parents had identified the bodies from the clothes of their children.

He said forensic teams from the state capital, Chandigarh, had also collected DNA samples from the bodies.

The dead children were discovered late on Tuesday by local police. The foul smell emanating from the mill led them to the corpses, said Mr Rao.

Police said the children - three boys and a girl - were reported missing from the area in November. They said their parents worked as migrant labourers on local farms.

Mr Rao said the police was trying to ascertain whether the children were sexually-abused as some blood stains were found on the bodies.

Speaking in Delhi, Mr Brar said he had asked police to investigate the deaths thoroughly. He said he had not visited the rice mill for the past five years.

"This mill belonged to me but since a very long time it has been locked," he told reporters.

"Yesterday, the district authorities of Muktsar called me and told me that this incident had taken place. I have offered all possible help from my side."



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it also reminds me of the rumours that surround the murders of women in Ciudad Juárez and Guatemala city. Reporters there claim that groups of rich men send out toughs to grab women and girls off the street to be abused and murdered then dumped in plastic bags on wasteground, etc. the police and important public officials are supposedly in on it.

Reading about Marc Dutroux recently i read something i don't remember from the news coverage at the time. he was a middle man in the trafficking of girls, not just an abuser and murderer. he held them in his basement until he could sell them on. he was jailed for a parking offence for a month and the girls he had at the time starved to death because his wife and accomplice wouldn't go near them. he murdered the accomplice when he found out.

 

[OldTimeRadio]

Marc Dutroux. Now there was Bad News. And some people still claim that Evil doesn't exist.

 

[Mighty_Emperor]

Indian serial killer suspect admits sex with dead bodies

by Elizabeth Roche Thu Jan 11, 7:01 AM ET

NEW DELHI (AFP) - A suspect in the gruesome murders of 17 people, mostly children, near the Indian capital has told investigators he had sex with the dead bodies and ate their organs, a report said.

The Times of India said Surender Koli admitted to carrying out the crimes alone and that his employer, businessman Moninder Singh Pandher, who has also been arrested and charged, was unaware of the killing spree.

The grisly revelations emerged after the two accused were subjected to "narco-analysis" -- including truth drugs, polygraph tests and brain mapping -- at a national forensic laboratory.

Results of the tests are not admissible as evidence in court, but are designed to help police with their investigation.

Residents say at least 38 people, mostly children, have disappeared from the area, and that police had ignored their complaints that the children were missing. The killings have dominated the front pages of all newspapers.

The two were arrested on December 29 in New Delhi's affluent Noida suburb after an overwhelming stench led to the discovery of carefully chopped-up body parts in a drain next to Pandher's home.

But Pandher was apparently unaware that his servant used sweets and chocolates to lure the victims to the house, before killing them and raping their bodies, the Times of India said.

Koli, who previously worked as a cook in a hotel, narrated how and when he killed his 17 victims with precision. He also remembered the names of 15 victims, the newspaper said, quoting unnamed investigators involved in the tests.

"Sahab (master) did not know," Koli was quoted as telling investigators, adding the murders were committed when Pandher was away.

Asked what he had done with the missing torsos of the victims, Koli disclosed that he ate some of the organs and cut up others and flushed them down the toilet. The dismembered parts were disposed of separately.

Koli said his first victim was a four-year-old girl. He admitted to trying to eat the child's liver, but said he vomited immediately.

His co-accused, meanwhile, emerged from the tests as a womaniser who used Koli as a pimp to find him prostitutes.

Pandher's family said the reports of the narco-analysis test results were a relief.

"I had always thought Surendra (Koli, the servant) was behind all this. My father used to be out of town for long periods on business," Pandher's 23-year-old son, Karan, told the newspaper.

Police in Noida had been investigating whether organ trade was a motive for the killings because the torsos of the victims were not found and only their skulls, limb bones and clothes were recovered from the sewer near Pandher's house.

But according to the Times of India, Koli might have been trying to cure his "impotency".

India's federal Central Bureau of Investigation said it would begin its probe into the case from Thursday.

"Our director Vijay Shanker has said that we received a notification from the federal government asking us to begin a probe into the killings," a spokesman for the agency told AFP.

"Our office received the notification yesterday (Wednesday) evening," he said, adding the agency will attach the "highest priority to the case" and "probe its entire ramifications."

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[OldTimeRadio]

Might it be time for a title change on this thread, since the original premise now seems defunct?

 

[Xanatico]

"Koli, who previously worked as a cook in a hotel, narrated how and when
he killed his 17 victims with precision"

I´m slightly worried about what he might have been serving in that hotel.

 

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so now it turns out that the servant did it all by himself while his boss was away on business? maybe so...or someone is throwing money around.

 

[ramonmercado]

Skulls found in Delhi murder case

Distraught relatives are maintaining a vigil
Three more skulls have been found near the home of an Indian businessman and servant arrested for alleged multiple rape and murder, Indian media say.
The discovery could bring the number of bodies found in Noida, a suburb of the capital Delhi, to 20.

Reports quoted Central Bureau of Investigation detective, who took over amid anger at local police inaction. The CBI has not confirmed the new find.

Angry locals are continuing to hold a vigil outside the suspect's home.

Businessman Maninder Singh Pandher and his servant Surendra Koli are being questioned over the murders.

Lie detector test

Local media quoted CBI detectives as saying they had found the three skulls while searching drains near the home on Saturday night.

However it was unclear if they belonged to the suspected 17 victims already discovered, or added to the number.

The Hindustan Times said a bag containing human body parts, bones and clothes was also pulled from the drain.

CBI spokesman G Mohanty refused to comment on developments when contacted by the BBC.

Residents say as many as 40 children have disappeared in the area over the past two years.

Parents of some of the missing children are holding a vigil at the home, shouting "killers, killers" and demanding those guilty be executed.

The two suspects were arrested two weeks ago and are being held on suspicion of multiple abduction, rape and murder.

The CBI was granted the custody of the accused on Thursday for 14 days. The accused have undertaken lie detector tests.

The crime has shocked the country with many people accusing the local police of negligence and dereliction of duty.

Many locals say police failed to act over the abductions and murders because many of those reported missing came from poor families.

Six Noida policemen have been sacked for alleged incompetence. Three senior officers are suspended.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6260867.stm

 

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A notorious Indian child-murderer convicted in a case dubbed "the house of horrors" has had his death penalty commuted to life in prison.

The Allahabad High Court ruled Surinder Koli had waited too long for his mercy plea to be heard, making his execution unconstitutional under Indian law.

He was convicted in 2009 of killing at least five children in the Delhi house where he worked as a servant.

Police suspect at least 19 people were raped, killed and dismembered.

Since January last year, Indian courts have granted reprieves to several prisoners on death row after a Supreme Court ruling said long delays in deciding mercy pleas were "inhuman". ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-31016066

 

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Police in the Indian capital Delhi are investigating whether a man recently arrested for the murder of a six-year-old girl is a serial child killer who may be involved in 30 such crimes. His family, however, alleges he is being framed, writes the BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi. Readers may find some of the details in this article disturbing.

Ravinder - who uses only one name - was arrested last week after the body of the six-year-old girl was recovered from an abandoned building just 50 yards from her home.

In the days since his arrest, he has confessed to dozens of sexual assaults and murders of children, giving "details of times and places of crimes".

At the Begumpur police station in West Delhi's Rohini area, Ravinder is brought in to talk to me. He is handcuffed and the metal leash is held by a policeman. He squats on the floor near me and starts to tell me how he picked up his six-year-old victim.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-33621711

 

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Indian serial killer confesses involvement in more than 50 murders. His gang allegedly dumped the bodies in crocodile-infested waters

An Indian serial killer who admitted his involvement in the murder of more than 50 taxi drivers whose bodies were dumped in a crocodile-infested canal has been caught by police after he fled to another state while out of prison on parole.

Between 2002 to 2004, Devender Sharma was convicted of murdering up to seven taxi drivers and sentenced to life in prison in Jaipur, a city in the northern state of Rajasthan.

After spending 16 years in jail, the 62-year-old was given a short parole in January. But when his 20 days on the outside were up, Sharma didn't return to prison, according to Indian police.

On Wednesday -- around six months after he went missing -- Indian police arrested Sharma in the country's capital Delhi, where he had been living with a widow who he had married since failing to return from parole.
When questioned, Sharma confessed that he had broken his parole conditions and didn't plan to return to jail, according to a news release Wednesday from Delhi police.

According to Delhi police, Sharma also went into detail about his criminal past. ...

After losing money in a scam, he became involved in a scheme selling fake gas canisters. He then took part in a scheme involving illegal kidney transplants, and was arrested in 2004 over the case. According to police, he admitted being involved with more than 125 such transplants, with each earning him between $6,680 and $9,350.

Sharma told police that he and others worked on another scheme in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. They hired taxis and then killed the drivers at secluded places, before dumping the bodies in a canal home to crocodiles -- meaning there was no chance that the remains could be retrieved.

After the bodies were dumped, Sharma sold the taxis -- either whole or in parts -- and made around $270 for each car.

Sharma eventually confessed to being the mastermind behind the murder of more than 50 taxi drivers. However, he has only been convicted of a handful of those killings ...

SOURCE: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/asia/delhi-murder-taxi-intl-hnk/index.html

 

[ramonmercado]

A notorious Indian child-murderer convicted in a case dubbed "the house of horrors" has had his death penalty commuted to life in prison.

The Allahabad High Court ruled Surinder Koli had waited too long for his mercy plea to be heard, making his execution unconstitutional under Indian law.

He was convicted in 2009 of killing at least five children in the Delhi house where he worked as a servant.

Police suspect at least 19 people were raped, killed and dismembered.

Since January last year, Indian courts have granted reprieves to several prisoners on death row after a Supreme Court ruling said long delays in deciding mercy pleas were "inhuman". ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-31016066

Update. A bizarre case. It doesn't look as if there will be a retrial.

A court in India has acquitted two men who spent years on death row for the rape and murder of 19 women and children in 2005.

Surinder Koli and his businessman employer Moninder Singh Pandher were convicted in 2009 in a gruesome case that shocked the country.
They were held in 2006 after body parts were found near their home near Delhi.

On Monday, the Allahabad High Court found Koli innocent in 12 cases in which he had been sentenced to death. The court also found Pandher not guilty in the two cases against him. The two men were acquitted due to "lack of evidence", their lawyer told the media. The full court judgement has not been released.

The murders came to light in 2006 after body parts and children's clothing were found inside a sewer in front of Moninder Singh Pandher's house in a wealthy suburb of the capital called Noida. At least 19 young women and children had been raped, killed and dismembered. Police alleged at the time that the murders took place inside Pandher's house, where Koli worked as a servant.

Police alleged that the children, remains of whom were found hidden in bags, were lured to their deaths by Koli, who offered them sweets and chocolate. They alleged that during the investigation, Koli had confessed to cannibalism and necrophilia. He later retracted his confession in court saying it had been beaten out of him. ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-67119737