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Nithari News



Jan 31 Dismissed SI went after father of Noida missing gi
URL: http://www.indianexpress.com/story/20056.html
New Delhi, January 3: On December 17, a police team drove into Pipalia village in Uttaranchal and asked for Nand Lal. And after half-an-hour, the team drove back, having convinced the village that Lal, the man who forced the police to investigate the Nithari killings, was lying and his daughter Payal was happily married and in Mumbai.
Less than two weeks later, Moninder Singh Pandher allegedly confessed that he had asked his servant Surender to kill Payal.

All the while that Lal was fighting to ensure that his daughter got justice, a large part of the probe was investigating him. On December 17, sub inspector Simranjit Kaur of the Nithari police, who took charge n 18 September 2006, went to investigate Lal in his village.

Simranjit Kaur visited us and even had tea in my house, says Ashish Kumar Bala, pradhan of Pipalia. In fact, I was busy with a nasbandi camp and was specially sent for. She said she was investigating Nand Lal and spent nearly 20 minutes in our house asking us about him.

Accompanied by four people dressed in civvies and one policeman in uniform, Kaur reportedly drove into the village in a Bolero.

During her visit to Pipalia, Kaur reportedly made queries about where Nand Lal lived and what he did. And when we asked her about Payal, she categorically told us that the girl had eloped and was in Mumbai, adds Bala. She even added that teams had gone to Mumbai and checked out her whereabouts.

After Kaurs visit, my entire reputation in the village was ruined, recalls Lal. Everyone believed what the police said and were convinced that my daughter was wrong. Only after Moninders arrest and the confessions the truth unfolded. And now the village wants to know why they were misled....

shishir Jan 31 [contd...]
Kaur was suspended two days ago and dismissed this evening. And nearly a week after the skeletons were found, officials at the Nithari police chowki are tight-lipped about their visit to Pipalia. There were many trips all over, is all officials are willing to say. However, officials at the sector 20 police station confirm Kaurs trip to Lals village.

The Pipalia trip came at a time when Nithari killings investigating officer Dinesh Yadav claims to have been looking at the case afresh.

When contacted, Simranjit was not available and a person claiming to be her sister said: She has been working very hard on the case and went to many places to check facts.

Chasing the Complainant

August 24, 2006: Nand Lal sought the intervention of the CJM Court Gautham Buddha Nagar to get an FIR against Moninder Singh and his servant Surendra under section 363 and 366 under the IPC. Lal charged them with kidnapping his daughter Dipika alias Payal. He alleged that Surendra dialled Payals mobile 981115404 from a nearby PCO on May 6. Surendra, according to Lal, asked Payal to meet Moninder on May 7 with the biodata of her brother Amit. Lal added that Moninder had assured Payal that he would offer Amit a job at his factory. Lal said Payal had not returned home since she visited Moninders house. Lal asked the police to register an FIR in vain. Sector 20 Police Station could only register a case of missing person on May 29.

October 6, 2006: The CJM court intervened and asked the police to file an FIR in Payals missing case. It is just that the police should examine the case, ruled the court.

shishir Jan 31 [contd...2]
October 6, 2006: Moninder filed an affidavit in the CJM court, stating that he did not have any role in Payals kidnapping because he was even not in Delhi when Payal went missing. He said he stayed in Chandigarh from May 5 to June 10 because of his fathers illness and subsequent death. To corroborate his statement he attached his father death certificate, a toll tax slip and a diesel voucher of a petrol pump on the GT Karnal Road.

December 6, 2006: In his affidavit in the Allahabad High Court, Nand Lals lawyer Pradeep Pandey stated: That the deponent Lal is a poor person and Moninder Singh is a very rich person and has political links. Therefore the deponent does not have any faith in the present investigation and hence prays that the investigation be handed over to CBI.

anuradha.nagarajexpressindia.com



shishir Jan 31 January 6, 2007: Police raid Noida doctor's home
[have to sort later]
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1890712,001302630000.htm

Suspecting an organ trade racket, police on Saturday raided the home of Naveen Chowdhury, a doctor and neighbour of Moninder Singh Pandher, the main accused in the killings of at least 20 children of nearby Nithari village.

Accompanied by a team of forensic experts, police entered the D-6 bungalow of Chowdhury in Sector 31 of Noida, yards away from the village.

"We searched the house of the doctor, a neighbour of Moninder, for our investigation. The search went on for nearly two hours," a senior police official said.

Police had raided Chowdhury's house on December 31 as well but the forensic experts were not part of their team then. Police said the forensic experts picked up some clues from the house for tests.

Chowdhury, managing director of the Noida Medical Centre, was accused in a case of organ trade in 1998. A patient from east Delhi had accused the doctor of removing a kidney from his body without his permission while he was undergoing treatment at the Centre.

However, Chowdhury was exonerated of the charge the same year.

Earlier in the day, Moninder's son Karan Pandher told reporters that he suspected Chowdhury had a hand in the killings of Nithari children.

He said since the autopsy report did not rule out the possibility of organ trade, police should take action against Chowdhury.

"The people of Nithari, children and my father need justice. But my father has not got a fair trial yet," a sentimental Karan said.

He said because of the case, their family business had suffered a lot.

"Now no one wants to do business with us. I appeal to all that we are not bad people."

shishir Jan 31 January 19, 2007: I see kids and I want to kill,
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1904946,001302630000.htm
"I see kids and I want to kill, says Nithari accused"
Tushar Srivastava

New Delhi, January 19, 2007

Handcuffed and surrounded by psychiatrists and armed guards, Nithari serial-killings suspect Surendra Koli has been telling his investigators that he wants to see children and commit murders — a chilling throwback to psychopath Hannibal Lecter's words in The Silence of the Lambs: "He covets. That's his nature."

Experts say it could be a ploy to have the investigators declare him insane.

Koli was a servant of Noida businessman Moninder Singh Pandher. Both are the suspects in the case. Koli allegedly sexually assaulted and killed many children.

Meanwhile, CBI officials on Friday discovered a weapon which they believe was used to kill some of the children — a blood-smeared axe hidden in a bush outside Pandher's mansion, CBI officials said.

Investigators said Koli had killed at least two of his victims using the axe.

"He says he is getting desperate and would like to kill someone," said a CBI official on condition of anonymity. "He speaks at length about children and says he has not seen a child for long. He would like to see children around him. He has often told us that he wants to have sex with someone and then murder the person." Psychiatrist Rajat Mitra said Koli could be feigning mental illness.

Email Tushar Srivastava: tushar@hindustantimes.com

shishir Jan 31 January 17, 2007: Six-yr-old could be key Nithari
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1903279,001302630000.htm

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.

When a Hindustan Times journalist showed the girl a picture of Koli, she stiffened and clenched her fists. She said "yes" when asked whether she was willing to go to the police station to identify Koli, and record her statement there.

Begum said she had no doubt the man her daughter had met was Koli and the woman she referred to was Maya. "When the pictures of Surendra and Maya appeared in the papers and on television, Mehnaz recognised them immediately," she said.

Social activist Usha Thakur, who campaigned on behalf of the missing children's families, said she knew of Mehnaz's story. "Luckily, both times, someone saved the little girl before she entered Pandher's home," said Thakur.

Email Meenal Dubey: meenal@hindustantimes.com

shishir Jan 31 January 21, 2007: CBI made me sign blank papers..
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1907041,001302630000.htm
CBI made me sign blank papers, says complainant

Abhishek Bhalla

Pipliya (Udham Singh Nagar), January 21, 2007
The man whose complaint about his missing daughter unravelled the Nithari killings alleged on Sunday that officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation had made him sign blank, undated papers. The CBI called the allegation “nonsensical”.

Nand Lal, 47, was the first person to name the main suspects — Moninder Singh Pandher and his servant Surendra Koli — in a May 2006 complaint about his daughter Payal having gone missing. (She has since been confirmed dead.) He has virtually been in hiding for weeks since the remains of people — mostly children — allegedly sexually assaulted and killed by the accused began turning up at Nithari.

HT tracked him down at Pipliya village, where he returned on Saturday after spending two days in Delhi being questioned by the CBI. “Of the three sheets of paper that I signed, two were blank and one had only my address on it. The officer told me that in an emergency they might need a statement, and since I am staying far away it would be difficult to get my signature,” he said.

In Delhi, CBI spokesman G Mohanty retorted, “This is absolutely nonsensical. The CBI officials never did such a thing.”

In his complaint to the police on May 8 last year, Lal said Payal had gone missing after going to Pandher’s house. The police had turned him away. He went to court, and it took a magistrate’s order to register an FIR five months later, on October 7.

Email Abhishek Bhalla: abhishek.bhalla@hindustantimes.com

shishir Jan 31 December 31, 2006: Noida killer's house ransacked,
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1884871,000600010001.htm
Noida killer's house ransacked, more skeletons found

Indo-Asian News Service

New Delhi, December 31, 2006

Hundreds of angry residents of Nithari village of Noida, a satellite
town of the national capital, vandalised the home of Moninder Singh Pandher who has been arrested for killing several children after sexually assaulting them.

The mob forcibly entered the compound of the sealed house of the businessman and broke some windows and doors to express their anger against the psychopath who along with his domestic help Satish had allegedly killed several children - mainly minor girls - missing from the village.

To disperse the unruly mob, police resorted to baton charge and deployed Provincial Armed Constabulary personnel to control the situation.

Both Singh and Satish were arrested on Friday.

Meanwhile, continuing their search for the third consecutive day Sunday, police recovered some more skeletons from a drain adjacent to Singh's D-5 bungalow in Sector 31 of Noida.

While assuring that all guilty police officials will be punished for the neglect, authorities suspended two more beat constables who used to do rounds of the village.

Seven police personnel including an inspector have so far been suspended after the remains of the missing children came to light on Friday.

shishir Jan 31 [contd..1]
"We are interrogating both the accused and hope to get further details of their activity. Some samples of the recovered skeletons have also been sent to the forensic labs in Agra and Hyderabad," said RKS Rathore, senior superintendent of Police, Gautam Budh Nagar.

He said the report from the labs would help them know the exact number of bodies recovered.

Police had recovered 17 bodies and identified nine of them by Saturday night.

During last two years, 38 children have been reported missing from the village.

On Sunday, Bahujan Samajwadi Party chief Mayawati visited the locality and demanded that the case should be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation.

"We will also write a letter to the Uttar Pradesh Governor and request the central government to impose the president's rule in the state," she said adding that Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav should resign on the ground of morality.
Jan 31 January 9, 2007: Narco-analysis of Pandher begins
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1893978,001302630000.htm
The narco-analysis test of the prime accused in the Noida serial murder case Moninder Singh Pandher began on Tuesday afternoon at the Directorate of Forensic Sciences (DFS), official sources said in Gandhinagar.

Pandher was brought to the DFS after he was discharged from the civil hospital in Gandhinagar late on Monday night.

The tests are expected to go on for approximately eight hours, sources said.

Being a diabetic, Pandher was taken to the hospital on Monday evening where insulin shots were administered on him.

The director of DFS had on Monday said that the medical condition of Pandher will be reviewed before he undergoes the narco-analysis (truth serum) test on Tuesday.

Narco-analysis is the final test that Pandher will be undergoing at DFS. Earlier, Polygraph and brain finger printing tests were conducted on him.

The Nodia police had brought Pandher and his servant Surendra Koli to DFS on January 5 for forensic tests.

Pandher and Koli have been accused of the serial killing of women and children in Nithari village, in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

All the three forensic tests on Koli was completed on Monday.

shishir Jan 31 January 6, 2007: Police not sure of cannibalism th
Police not sure of cannibalism theory
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1890629,001302630000.htm

The Uttar Pradesh Police said on Saturday they were not sure if it was true that the two men arrested for the killings of several children in Noida ate the flesh of their victims.

News reports claiming that one of the men had confessed to feasting on the liver of his victims after being brutally done to death seem to have left the police aghast.

"I fail to understand how the media has concluded this when the narco analysis test on the accused (Moninder Singh Pandher and his servant Surinder Kohli) has barely started," Noida Senior Superintendent of Police RKS Rathore said.

He, however, added: "It is rather early and premature to say anything right now. But considering the glaring perversion and brutalities, we do not rule out any possibility."

Moninder Singh and Surendra were flown to Ahmedabad on Friday for a special test at the Forensic Scientific Laboratory. Police from Noida are with them.

"Our team is in no position to say anything until the narco-analysis test is complete. In fact, the tests are to formally commence on Saturday," Rathore said....

shishir Jan 31 [contd...1]
"It appears that after a theory on cannibalism was floated by a TV channel, the print media too decided to lap it up without cross checking the authenticity of the TV report," he added.

Yet another angle that the police are trying to figure out is the possibility of the killings being a part of some organ-trading racket. However, a medical expert here has ruled out the possibility.

"Removal of the kidneys from a human body is a very delicate process and has to be necessarily done on a person with a beating heart, so that the blood circulation process is on. You cannot remove the kidney of a dead person," pointed out Diwakar Dalela, head of the urology department at the King George's Medical University in Lucknow.

"Well, unless the kids were first taken to a well-equipped operation theatre for removal of kidneys and then done to death, the question of organ transplant could not arise," he said.

"In any case, organ transplant requires so many pre-requisites like blood and kidney matching between the donor and recipient. Besides no Indian hospital so far has facilities to preserve a kidney for more than three to four hours."



shishir Jan 31 January 10, 2007: Accused duo back in Delhi
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1896057,001302630000.htm

Accused duo back in Delhi
Rathin Das, Sobhana K and Abhishek Bhalla
Gandhinagar/New Delhi, January 10, 2007

Moninder Singh Pandher and his servant Surender Koli were flown back to Delhi on Wednesday evening after a daylong medical check-up at the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Gandhinagar.

The two were driven directly to the airport late in the evening under heavy security, followed by television crews.

The duo, who underwent polygraph tests, brain-mapping and narco-analyses at the FSL here during the last five days, were under observation for the day to rule out any complications arising out of the narcoanalysis conducted under controlled sedation.

No psychological tests were conducted on them on Wednesday, FSL sources clarified. FSL director Dr JMVyas did not disclose any information about the results of the three tests conducted on the accused since Friday. He said the reports would be sent directly to the Noida court in a few days.

shishir Jan 31 [contd...1]
Meanwhile, a local Noida court on Wednesday extended the police remand of Pandher and Koli.

Chief judicial magistrate Shamsher Khan extended the police remand of the duo after the police moved an application stating that doctors at the Directorate of Forensic Science (DFS) in Gujarat's Gandhinagar had asked for more time to complete tests on them. Pandher and Koli are expected to be produced in court on January 12.

The 10-day remand of the two accused ended on Wednesday but they were not produced in court. “If there is a sound reason, remand can be extended without producing the accused in the court. The police has not decided as yet whether to ask for an extension beyond Friday,” said public prosecutor A.K. Sharma.

The court had earlier extended the police remand by 10 days on January 1 when the police had asked for more time to interrogate the two as none of the torso bones of the people killed had been found.

Email Abhishek Bhalla: abhishek.bhalla@hindustantimes.com

Email Sobhana K: sobhana.k@hindustantimes.com

Email Rathin Das: rathin.d@rediffmail.com

shishir Jan 31 January 6, 2007: 'My father loves children and can
'My father loves children and cannot be their killer'
Press Trust of India
Chandigarh, January 6, 2007
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1890245,001302630000.htm

Even as businessman Moninder Singh Pandher, the prime accused in the Noida serial killings case, has revealed vital information during psychological profiling and tests conducted on him, his Canada-educated son on Saturday said his father "loves children and could not be their killer".

Defending his father, Karandeep Singh, 25, said, "Ever since my childhood he has showered me with love and affection. He has even taken care of some of our relatives' children, who too love him. Tell me which psychopath or paedophile, as my father is being falsely projected, would show such qualities."

Karandeep, who lives with his mother Davinder Kaur at the family's Chandigarh house, said his father brought him up like a "king" and always stressed on good education, as that alone and not money would help progress in life.

"My father himself has a brilliant academic record. Not only did he study at prestigious educational institutions like St Stephens, but he even reached the interview stage of IAS examination, but left it to take responsibility of the family business," he said.

Karandeep said the entire family had been "shocked and traumatised" after his father's name figured as a prime suspect in the Nithari killings of children that have evoked a nationwide outrage.

shishir Jan 31 [contd...1]
"He was and still is a good father. I firmly believe that my father cannot do this heinous crime. I think somebody is behind all this. The confessions are being made under pressure, but I have full faith in the judiciary, which I regard as the best in the world," he said.

Asked about the unearthing of skeletons and body parts of children in a nullah behind their Noida residence, Karandeep said, "My father and servant Surendra are not surgeons. Look, how cleanly the work was done. In fact, the doctor living next-door should also be brought under the scanner."

"This (the killings) seems to be the handiwork of some professional people and should be thoroughly investigated. I have myself stayed in our Noida house on earlier occasions.

"In fact, my mother too was there on June 5, but had to come back to Chandigarh to attend to my ailing grandfather. If something fishy had been going on there, either of us would have got the wind of it," he said.

Karandeep said life has come to a "standstill" for him and his family. "People don't want to keep relations with us," he said.

"Someone is also trying to falsely project that relations between my mother and father are strained, which is not the case. We are firmly behind him in this hour of crisis," he said.

He said the family had deputed a private investigator to dig out the truth. "We are going through a trauma. Outside our Chandigarh house, people come and raise slogans. What wrong have we done? Why are they punishing us?" he asked.

He also said that political parties should not make this "sensitive issue" a "political propaganda".


shishir Jan 31 JAN 31 2007: CBI officials meet families in Nithar
http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=447562

CHILDREN-CBI PRINT EMAIL
CBI officials meet families in Nithari village
NOIDA (UP), JAN 31 (PTI)

CBI officials today went door-to-door in Nithari village, the site of gruesome serial killings of children and women, talking to the families of the victims as well as those whose kin are missing.

The CBI spent around three hours in the village, meeting the parents of victims and missing children and women as well as their neighbours as part of their investigation into the killings.

There were some tense moments during the CBI team's visit to Nithari, with a victim's relative losing his temper as the officials came to his house and complaining about his situation.

Dil Bahadur Sahi, husband of Nanda Devi, who has been identified as one of the victims of the serial killing, told the CBI officials, "Villagers are making fun of me that I am surviving on the compensation money given for my wife. I cannot take it anymore."

Sahi's neighbours explained he was mentally unstable after the tragedy he has gone through.

"He and his five children have gone through a very difficult period," Sahi's neighbour Nandini said.

The CBI officials asked the families of missing children and women about the sequence of events on the day they disappeared.

The investigating agency has also asked the families of missing children and women to submit blood samples at the CBI camp office in Noida for DNA tests.

Earlier, a CBI team visited the D-, Sector 31 residence of main accused Moninder Singh Pandher's house. They spent around half-an-hour inside the house.

shishir Jan 31 January 14, 2007: CBI finds bundles with parts of
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1899432,001302630000.htm
Nithari killings: CBI finds bundles with parts of torsos
Mayank Tewari
New Delhi, January 14, 2007

The Uttar Pradesh police, already under attack for bungling the investigation into the Nithari serial killings, are now being criticised for having taken the suspects, Mohinder Singh Pandher and his servant Surinder Koli, to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Gandhinagar for their narco analysis. The FSL Gandhinagar's techniques, experts maintain, are not tailormade for criminal investigation.

Meanwhile in Noida, 12 bags stuffed with human torsos were scooped out of the drains near the house where the suspects lived and allegedly killed children. The recovery discounted the theory that the children could have been killed to sell their body parts to the organ trade. But it did raise questions of why fresh evidence continued to turn up long after the UP Police had officially completed their investigation.
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shishir Jan 31 [contd...1]
Forensic officials said the suspects were not subjected to the most effective kind of narco-analysis in Gandhinagar, the kind which has been used on alleged fake stamp-paper racketeer Abdul Karim Telgi, suspected gangster Abu Salem and the accused in the Mumbai blasts.

This is only possible at FSL, Bangalore. A CBI officer told the Hindustan Times, "If we feel the need to explore the minds of the two suspects, we will definitely not go by the report of the Gandhinagar FSL." The official, who spoke on condition that he not be named, said if it was required, "we will go in for a fresh narco-analysis".

FSL, Gandhinagar conducts psychotherapeutic narco-analysis -- used primarily to assess psychiatric illness. "The psychotherapeutic method is not perfect for criminal investigations," said Dr S Malini of FSL, Bangalore. D Mohan, the laboratory’s director, added: "Psychotherapy under trance can possibly bring out the psychological truth but not the absolute and probative truth."

It was unclear why the UP Police chose to take Pandher and Koli to Gandhinagar. Senior Superintendent of Police RKS Rathore's mobile phone went unanswered on Sunday.

Email Mayank Tewari: mayank.tewari@hindustantimes.com

(With Rathin Das in Ahmedabad)

Jan 31 January 6, 2007: Ten facts a parent must keep in m
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1891110,001302630002.htm
Psychology: Knowledge to know
Ten facts a parent must keep in mind
January 6, 2007

1. All child sex abusers are not paedophiles: While paedophilia is a clinical disorder where adults are sexually attracted only to prepubescent children, majority of child sex abusers are situational abusers. These are people who use a child for sex because the child is accessible, most commonly from within the family or household.

2. It is not a western concept: Paedophiles are found all over the world and possibly in your own backyard. Though no official statistics are available for the country, it is estimated that 20 per cent of children will experience some form of sex abuse before they reach 15.

3. Both boys and girls can be molested: Though paedophiles are usually exclusive in their sexual preferences (only boys or only girls), situational abusers often pick the child who is easily available to them. There have been cases of bisexual perpetrators in both cases.

4. People you know and trust are the biggest threat: While paedophiles often take up jobs that allow access to children — working in schools, crèches and homes, a situational abuser is usually a family member, a teacher, a priest, a servant or driver. Across all religions, celibate priests are twice as likely to abuse a child, and among family members, weddings offer common opportunities for situational abuse by a relative.

shishir Jan 31 [contd...1]
5. No age is a safe age: While US statistics put 11 years as the age where children are most vulnerable to abuse, infants as young as three days have been victims.

6. A molester does not have to be physically present to abuse: Paedophile rings across the world pick out victims on the Internet and invent games and ‘dares’ to get young Internet users to strip and touch themselves in front of the webcam.

7. Child sex abusers rarely use force: They may take several months to win a child’s trust before attempting molestation. They use bribes; cajole children into participating in a ‘secret’ act, play touching games and often start with innocuous tickling and hugging before crossing the line to sexual abuse. The child is often too young or too confused to know that he or she is being violated.

8. Paedophiles pick their victims carefully: They don’t look for the prettiest child or the chubbiest cheeks, but seek out the one who is the most vulnerable. Shy children with domestic problems are easy targets as they quickly drop their defences in the face of support and validation from the abuser.

9. Paedophiles form a kinship with fellow abusers: They are not sad, lonely people but systematically seek out others like themselves. They enjoy safety in numbers and use each other as an alibi, a friend to confess in and also as a source of tips.

10. Parents need counselling too: Some experience feelings of guilt and shame much like the child and blame themselves for having missed obvious signs. These parents would need counselling to effectively deal with such trauma. Those in denial must also seek help to effectively understand their child better.

Information courtesy: Dr Dayal Mirchandani, Psychiatrist, Behavioural Science Network.


shishir Jan 31 January 6, 2007: Nightmares, hallucinations haunt
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1891106,001302630001.htm

Nightmares, hallucinations haunt Nithari villagers
Aditya Sinha, Neha Mehta and Arvin Vincent
January 6, 2007

Jennifer, a teacher, spends her time wondering which of her niece's limbs Moninder Singh and Surender chopped off first. Meera, a maid, finds herself in a panic every time she comes across a polythene bag while sweeping Nithari's drains.

No food, no sleep, nightmares, hallucinations, rage and fear... an entire community is suffering trauma that, psychologists say, could last a lifetime.

Over Thursday and Friday, 29 residents of Nithari village — 11 men, 13 women and six children — were given questionnaires and interviewed by psychologists Rajat Mitra, Nidhi Mitra, Paresh Shah, Mahima Nayar and Rajender Singh, assisted by HT.

They found Nithari's survivors in the highest level of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), more than what Swanchetan found in its work with victims of natural disasters (2001 Bhuj earthquake), riots (Gujarat 2002) and terrorism (post-1990 Kashmiri migrants).

How total is the disruption of life? Not only were most residents truant from work or school, they were too listless for even daily chores. No one could eat properly. As soon as they touched their food, they saw images of bones, the culprits' faces, and the drain where the remains were discovered. That would end their appetite.

No one could sleep properly. During the past week, they slept an average of two to three hours. About 90 per cent reported nightmares; the children said they often dreamed they were trying to protect the dead, telling them to stay away from "that house".

Many hallucinated. Some spoke of hearing the killers' voices, others spoke of imagining the killers lurking around the corner. If there was a night-time knock on the door, the first thought for many was that it was one of the killers....

shishir Jan 31 [contd....1/2]
The survivors said that like Jennifer above, they often visualised the victims' last moments. Everyone wanted to tear D-5 down with his or her own hands; all wanted a death for the culprits as terrible as was for the victims.

Everyone had an eerie fear that the culprits would somehow return and take revenge against the villagers for having exposed them.

The survey found all respondents showing sharply increased regressive behaviour. It was highest among children – even teens were bed-wetting. The women complained that the men had become child-like in behaviour.

Swanchetan felt PTSD in Nithari was high because no one could explain the incident. "They could not ascribe causation, unlike in Bhuj, where they blamed God, or after the riots, for which they blamed politicians," said Rajat Mitra.

The study found PTSD highest among children and lowest among women, perhaps because women are used to huddling and collectively coping.

For the men, the statement at the core of the trauma was "Life is unpredictable". For women, it was "We could not protect the children". The men resorted to alcohol and drugs ("to deaden oneself"), while the women and children fell deeper into silence, punctuated only by hallucination.

The dominating emotion for men was rage, for children it was "survival guilt", and for women it was depression.
...

shishir Jan 31 [contd...2/2]
Swanchetan predicts lifelong trauma for many – first because there are no support structures for therapy, and second because the community of Nithari and Noida's sector 31 is a mix of locals, migrants and illegal immigrants.

Psychologists say integrated communities deal with trauma better. The result would be increased morbidity — crimes and mental health issues – and more "negative scripting". A "script" is an individual's basic belief of self and others.

For instance, the children spoke of how adult society could not protect them. Fatalistic beliefs have already sprouted – residents said they would not be able to protect themselves, and predicted that rapes would become common.

The survey showed the locals dealing with the trauma better than the migrants. Yet they also blamed the migrants for creating an evil atmosphere that led to the grisly crimes.

These preliminary findings will not differ significantly from the final report, expected in the middle of next week. Swanchetan plans to continue the work on a long-term basis, picking up on the interviews when the din dies down.

Part of the reason is the police ordering residents to clam up, the opposite of what mental health professionals prescribe for trauma victims. The NGO plans to set up support structures for therapy, and Mitra was critical of the administration's announcement of compensation for the victims' families: "The government should set up supportive structures the way the US did post-9/11, and the money should supplement that."

Email authors: adityasinha@hindustantimes.com
neha.mehta@hindustantimes.com
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shishir Feb 2 1 February 2007:Nithari: Raid on dismissed lady SI
http://www.indlawnews.com/FBD027738E66166A06AED236A80C6B39
Nithari: Raid on dismissed lady SI's home yields money
1 February 2007

As a follow up to conducting polygraph tests on Nithari serial killings accused, the CBI has raided the Meerut premises of a woman Sub-Inspector posted at Nithari police 'chowki' and seized nearly rupees three lakh.

The raids were conducted this afternoon in Meerut at the residence of Simranjit Kaur, posted at Nithari police post for the last two years, ever since the children started 'disappearing', said a senior CBI official.

"Nearly three lakh rupees were recovered from her residence along with some incriminating documents." Simranjit, who is said to be close to Moninder Singh Pandher, was dismissed after initial investigations were conducted into the incident. Raids were conducted today after some additional information on her was received during ongoing investigations, he added.

The raid, which follows the polygraph tests on Pandher yesterday and a day before that, were a follow-up on the 'confessions' made during the 'tests', said sources.

It was Simranjit who told the father of Payal -- the girl whose mobile recovery led to the unravelling of the case -- that the case could not be registered as she had eloped, when he went to register his complaint on his daughter's disappearance naming Pandher and Surinder Koli, sources added.

(UNI)

shishir Feb 2 Jan 30, 2007: Moninder, Koli undergo more polygrap
http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/30/stories/2007013021580100.htm
Moninder, Koli undergo more polygraph tests

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI : Moninder Singh and Surender Koli, accused in the Nithari killings, were put through another round of polygraph tests at the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) headquarters here on Monday.

The agency reportedly found that the results of the first round of the lie-detector tests were not very conclusive. Moninder Singh and his servant Surender were taken to various places in Noida in the early hours of Monday for corroboration of the revelations made by them. Later, when Moninder Singh was being questioned at the CBI headquarters, his relatives came to meet him but were not allowed to do so.

Though he has not been forthcoming during interrogation, it is learnt that the agency has gathered evidence of Monider Singh's involvement in the killings.

Earlier in the day, some residents of Nithari and the parents of missing children from the nearby areas blocked traffic for about three hours on the road passing by the Noida residence of Moninder Singh, demanding that the investigation be expedited.

They expressed dissatisfaction at the manner in which the case was being handled. The protesters dispersed after senior police officers assured them that the guilty would be punished.

shishir Feb 2 January 30, 2007 :Nithari truth 'lost', CBI seethe
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/nithari-truth-lost-cbi-seeks-probe/32359-3.html
Nithari truth 'lost', CBI seethes

New Delhi: One month after the horror of the macabre Nithari killings began unfolding, the truth is still hidden in the dark dungeons of the minds of the two accused – Moninder Singh Pandher and Surendra Koli.

After the glaring lapses in the Noida police probe came to light, the case was handed over to the CBI.

But the investigating agency is simply not satisfied with the interrogation the two accused, neither have they much faith in the narco-analysis report released by the Gujarat Forensic Science Laboratory.

On Monday, the CBI put both the Nithari accused through a second round of lie-detection test as sources say that the first test conducted in Gujarat was incomplete.

Not just the CBI, the forensic experts from Gujarat also suggested that the tests were not done properly.

Not just the decision to put both the accused through another round of tests puts a big question mark over the narco-analysis conducted in Gujarat, it also means that CBI is not very confident that the evidence that they have so far will hold in the court of law.

Which is one of the reasons why CBI wants to know the facts that the two accused are concealing. Pandher, the owner of Noida's house of horror, has remained a tough nut to crack.

During the test, Pandher and Koli were subjected to questioning by scientists of Central for Forensic Sciences Laboratory pertaining to their role in the killings of women, especially Payal, sources said.

But the CBI has now found out that he had consistently paid money to Nodia police officials to avoid being arrested in the last two years, a truth which can now put a few police officers behind bars.

shishir Feb 2 February 01, 2007: Two more bones recovered from
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?rep=2&aid=351433&sid=NAT&ssid=
Two more bones recovered from Nithari
http://www.zeenews.com/pics/NAT/nithari_killing_100_011407.jpg

Noida, Feb 01: More than a month after the Nithari serial killings came to light, skeletal remains continue to surface in the area, with two more bones being recovered today.

The bones, portions of jaws, were discovered by the families of victims who have been holding protests in the area for the last three days.

The skeletal remains were handed over to police, which later gave them to the CBI that is investigating the serial killings, a police official said.

"The bones are not necessarily human remains. But we have handed over the bones to the CBI for further investigations," the official said.

The demonstrating families found the bones in the silt dug out of the drain outside D-5, Sector 31, the residence of main accused Moninder Singh Pandher, by the investigators earlier while looking for human remains.

Meanwhile, the families of the missing children continued their demonstration in the area although the road leading to Nithari was cleared for normal traffic.

Bureau Report

shishir Feb 2 TOI: Readerspeak: A blot on humanity
More: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/A_blot_on_humanity/articleshow/1064597.cms

UP is in a chaotic state courtesy lax cops and power hungry politicians.

Nitasha
Delhi
==

As you sow, so shall you reap. Pandher and Koli should be stoned to death publicly. They deserve this.

Ibrahim K B
Dubai
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Pandher is worst that an animal. Both Pandher and Koli should be fed live to hungry wild animals. They deserve a cruel punishment.

Shailendra Pagay
Pune
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As details tumble out, it is apparent that Pandher could easily carry out the animosity as the UP police was negligent and lax. The policemen involved should be considered a party to the crime and must be punished accordingly. The police department of the state must be be revamped.

Dhiraj Tyagi
Brunei Darussalam
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The Nithari killings are inhuman. All those who are at fault should be punished severely.

R S Joykutty
Kuwait

This incident should be an eye opener for the so-called educated and elite section of our country that doesn't use its voting right wisely. How can a lot of corrupt politicians lead our country on the road of progress?

Renjith
Dubai

It is rather a curse to be living in states like Bihar and UP. There is no law and order in these states. The politicians here are power hungry and selfish. There is zero economic development and unfortunately, there is no hope of any improvement in the coming years.

Indu Prakash
Kuwait
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Pandher and his cronies should be handed over to the victims' families. Let them decide his fate. This is the most monstrous criminal case I have ever heard. He is worse than Laden. Even terrorists spare women and children. He is an animal.

Jr
Mumbai
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I agree with Mr Virendra from Hong Kong. Being poor is indeed a curse in India.

Vishant
Pune
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The culprit and all the politicians who think this is a minor incident must be given death penalty.

Jack Mathews
Hong Kong
Feb 2 2007-02-02: Nithari fallout: Noida CO transferred
http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/newsarticle/stocksnews.php?cid=1&autono=32616&source=ibnlive.com
Nithari fallout: Noida CO transferred

New Delhi: Dinesh Yadav, the circle officer investigating the Nithari killings till recently, has been transferred to Agra. Yadav is accused of having close links with main accused Moninder Singh Pandher.

Yadav and his colleague reportedly travelled to Allahabad at Pandher's expense to appear for hearings on anticipatory bail application of the accused.

The Tehelka magazine spy cam probe also showed that Dinesh Yadav, who was in charge of Nithari investigation, called up Shivpal Singh Yadav, Chief Minister M Mulayam Singh's brother and the UP PWD Minister three times from his mobile phone.

This was just before Shivpal visited Nithari to describe the serial killings as "small, routine incidents".

shishir Feb 2 02 February 2007: Kin of Nithari victims visit CBI
http://www.saharasamay.com/samayhtml/articles.aspx?newsid=69544
Kin of Nithari victims visit CBI headquarters

New Delhi, Feb 2: It was an emotionally trying moment for parents of victims of the serial killings at Nithari's as they came face-to-face with the alleged murderers when they were brought to the CBI headquarters here today.

Ram Kishan, the father of three-year-old victim Harsh, said he felt a sudden rush of uncontrollable anger when he sighted Moninder Singh Pandher, accused of killing 17 women and children along with his servant Surender Koli.

"We were put face-to-face with Moninder but he avoided eye contact and did not talk," Kishan said.

Parents of some of the victims were brought to the CBI headquarters before being taken to AIIMS for obtaining DNA samples to be matched with those from skeletal remains found in a drain near Pandher's home at Nithari.

The parents and siblings of victims were taken to AIIMS by the Uttar Pradesh Police on the directions of the CBI, which is not satisfied with the results of DNA tests conducted earlier at a local hospital.

The DNA samples were taken after the families of victims consented to the CBI's demand, sources said. Police in Noida had taken blood samples from parents of the victims on January 6.

shishir Feb 2 02 February 2007: Nithari: Blood sampling of victi
http://www.saharasamay.com/samayhtml/articles.aspx?newsid=69528
Nithari: Blood sampling of victims' kin on

New Delhi, Feb 2: A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) took family members of those hapless children, who became victims of serial killers Surendra Koli and Moninder Singh Pandher in Nithari village of Noida over a period of time, to All India Institute of medical Sciences (AIIMS) for blood sampling today, Sahara Samay sources said.

According to the channel's reporter, these people were taken to the hospital in batches for the blood sampling so as to establish if the children killed by Koli and Pandher actually belonged to them.

A total of 18 people have been taken to AIIMS for the blood sampling and this process is likely to continue till Saturday.

Earlier on Thursday, CBI arrested one Nisha, who worked as a maid at Monider's place. She gave some important information regarding the hideous killings.

shishir Feb 5 February 04, 2007: Nithari top cop’s transfer spar
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1077988
Nithari top cop’s transfer sparks protests
Gyan Varma
Sunday, February 04, 2007 21:53 IST
(Media!!)

NEW DELHI: Angry protests against the transfer of top Noida cop continued for the second consecutive day outside the Nithari village on Sunday as family members of victims gathered at the village to show their support for R K S Rathore.

The state government had transferred senior superintendent of police R.K.S. Rathore on Saturday after accepting the recommendations of the high-level official committee that had carried out investigations in the events that lead to the abduction and murder of minors and women from the village. The committee had found Rathore guilty of not carrying out proper investigations in the case and asked the state government to take strict action against him.

“This is an unfair decision by the government. I think there is a conspiracy behind this transfer to delay the investigations because he was the one who had initially taken action against the killer duo,” said Sunil Vishwas, who has lost his 10-year-old daughter in April 2006. His daughter went missing when she was playing outside the house of Moninder Singh Pandher.

Amar Sarkar, whose 8-year-old daughter reportedly went missing in July last year, outside the village while coming back from school said, “We were planning to approach the government to allow Rathore to investigate the case. We believe that he is the one who would be able to get them punished by law,”

“We have met the CM and hope that our demands would be met,” he added.

shishir Feb 5 tehelka: COMMITTEE REPORT
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main26.asp?filename=ts021007Committee.asp
‘If Rathore had filed FIR on time and arrested Pandher, seven lives would have been saved’

Even the Uttar Pradesh government’s own report finds Noida police officialdom guilty of gross negligence and dereliction of duty, report Mihir Srivastava and Sanjay Dubey

A high-level two-member inquiry committee constituted by the UP government to look into how the police handled the complaints from parents of missing children, found two Senior Superintendents of Police, Noida, RKS Rathore and Piyush Mordia guilty of gross dereliction of duty.

The committee’s conclusions were contained in its final report, which was submitted to the government on January 5 by the two members — AC Sharma, adg (Crime and Law and Order) and AK Sinha, UP Home Secretary. They had submitted an interim report on January 3.

Compared to Mordia, the final report is more severe in its indictment of Rathore. However, while Mordia was suspended immediately after the interim report was submitted, Rathore has not been suspended yet.

The report states: “SSP RKS Rathore was unable to get Payal’s FIR registered in time. The FIR was lodged on October 6 and contained the names of both the men arrested by the police. It is only after this that the facts of the case came out in the open… Had Rathore ordered the registration of the FIR and arrested the duo, seven lives would have been saved. Rathore’s gross folly reflects his negligence and ineptitude. He is recommended for a major punishment.”

Citing the police’s criminal indifference, the report says, “FIRs were not lodged even in cases which involved minors. Such cases of kidnapping must be immediately registered, as minors could not have given any legal consent. Similarly, in the cases involving adults, FIRs were not registered even after many days.”

shishir Feb 5 [contd..]
The reasons why the committee recommended punishment for Mordia and Rathore in its interim and final reports are their inability to get the cases registered and their failure to give necessary instructions to their juniors. In light of this, the following observations in the report are pertinent:

The reports state that after the recovery of human skeletons from D-5, Sector 31, in Noida it became clear that the police had no information whatsoever about five victims whose skeletal remains was found. The final report says, “There is a strong possibility that the reports (about the missing victims) were not lodged even after their kin had informed the police that they were missing… This is a grave error and indicates how this ps functioned.”
Four of these five abductions occurred during Rathore’s tenure as SSP, Noida. Only one case of not filing an FIR happened during Mordia’s tenure. The report also states: “The yearly and half-yearly inspection of the Sector 20 ps was done by RK Vishwakarma, DIG Meerut range; RKS Rathore, SSP, Gautam Budh Nagar; Saumitra Yadav, SP City; and Sewak Ram Yadav, CO. The SSP, SP City and circle officer also conducted surprise inspections. They should have given the necessary instructions during their inspections so that proper efforts could have been taken.”

shishir Feb 5 [contd...]
The report’s indictment of the police is forthright, “The police’s first shortcoming was that instead of registering FIRs, only entries in the (GD) General Diary were made. Second, the available details about the missing children were not analysed properly and the investigation was limited to prostitution and begging gangs. Third, in the case of Payal, five months were lost before an FIR was lodged. Fourth, Moninder Pandher was summoned to the ps earlier but he was not interrogated properly. Fifth, the ps had no information at all about the five victims who were missing. Sixth, by and large, the police officials did not show any empathy with the victims.”

Rathore and Dinesh Yadav, Circle Officer, Noida — both still in service — stand guilty on all the six counts, whereas some of the suspended police officers including Mordia are not guilty on all the counts. However, Rathore is still in-charge of Noida police and the report gives Yadav only rap in the knuckles after holding him responsible for serious lapses. The report recommends minor punishment for him, saying that after the registration of an FIR in Payal’s case, he worked with complete dedication. Tehelka has evidence which shows Dinesh Yadav’s complicity in covering up the crime and how he was virtually forced by the High Court to finally solve the case.

Instead of the 12 cases of missing victims during Rathore’s tenure as SSP, Noida, the report provides information on only 8 cases, whereas it correctly provides information on all the 19 victims who went missing during Mordia’s tenure. This indicates two possible scenarios — either at the time of the committee’s inquiry on January 2-3, the police did not know exactly how many went missing during Rathore’s tenure or wrong information was provided to the committee, possibly to save Rathore and Dinesh Yadav.

shishir Feb 5 [contd...]
There is no mention of Rathore or Yadav in the interim report, but it recommended action against three senior police officers — Mordia, Saumitra Yadav and SR Yadav, and six junior officers — Vinod Pandey, Rajiv Baliyan, KP Singh, Simranjit Kaur who were in-charge of the police post — and sos RN Yadav and Deepak Chaturvedi.

In the final report, the committee also recommends milder action against some junior police officials. The report also observes that there were several chowki in-charges in Nithari, such as Chhote Singh, Yaad Ram Singh and Sati Chauhan who were transferred within a month of taking charge, even though not a single case of a missing person was reported during their tenure. However Simranjit Singh, despite having been suspended several times earlier, stayed on in the chowki for almost four months even after the skeletons were found. Tehelka has proof that Sati Chauhan provided false evidence to the court in Payal’s case, but this was not known to the committee and hence does not find mention in the report.

It appears that in the process of saving two senior police officers, Rathore and Yadav, four junior officers — RN Parashar, Anuj Kumar, Kamal Singh Yadav and VP Singh — also escaped punishment.

Severely indicting the entire Noida police force, the committee observes, “The Sector 20 ps, and offices of the co, sp and SSP are within two kilometers of Nithari. The relatives of the missing people were in constant touch with all the officials. This means that right from the in-charge of the police post to the senior officials, all were in the know of this matter.”

The committee’s report enumerates lapses before the Nithari case became a national sensation, but the police’s inability to find at least 20 more skeletons and missing torsos of the children from the drain behind house D-5, Sector 31 requires another high-level inquiry.

shishir Feb 7 6 Feb, 2007: Nithari families sing paeans of CM, S
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Lucknow/Nithari_families_sing_paeans_of_CM_Shivpal/articleshow/1565150.cms
Nithari families sing paeans of CM, ShivpalAdd to Clippings

KANPUR: Haunted by the ghost of Nithari, the desperate Uttar Pradesh government is now seeking quack cures to salvage its lost credibility. A day after chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav assured jobs to the kin of 17 Nithari victims at his residence in Lucknow, the iniquitous plot to sedate aftershocks of the gruesome incident came to the fore in Kanpur, which was nowhere in the picture until Monday.

After meeting with the CM at his official residence in Lucknow on Sunday, the kin of Nithari victims numbering 11, on their way back to Noida, halted in Kanpur for a night. As soon as they reached, the district administration arranged a luxury hotel for their stay. Next morning, the DM's office intimated mediapersons that the kin of Nithari victims would address a press conference at the President Hotel in Fazalganj locality of Kanpur.

The treatment meted out to reporters and the visiting Nithari residents at the hotel was contrary to expectations. Expecting to meet with a group of harried and grieving people, reporters were shocked to see parents of innocent kids who had fallen victim to the alleged demonic designs of Moninder Singh Pandher and Surinder Koli seated beside tables piled with French fries, kaju barfi and paneer-pakoras. Of course, there was coffee, tea, soft-drinks and mineral water to wash all that down.

shishir Feb 7 [contd....]
For a while it looked like a corporate group's press briefing about a new start-up.

Hospitality over, the victims' kin took the dais and started singing paeans of Mulayam, his clan and Samajwadi Party. They spoke more like SP spokesmen rather than bereaved parents. They complained that none of the Opposition leaders, mainly BSP supremo Mayawati, visited Nithari but SP leaders including Shivpal Yadav had visited the village to share the agony of the affected families. They also justified Mulayam's decision to skip the Nithari visit.
Feb 2 2007-02-02: Nithari fallout: Noida CO transferred
http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/newsarticle/stocksnews.php?cid=1&autono=32616&source=ibnlive.com
Nithari fallout: Noida CO transferred

New Delhi: Dinesh Yadav, the circle officer investigating the Nithari killings till recently, has been transferred to Agra. Yadav is accused of having close links with main accused Moninder Singh Pandher.

Yadav and his colleague reportedly travelled to Allahabad at Pandher's expense to appear for hearings on anticipatory bail application of the accused.

The Tehelka magazine spy cam probe also showed that Dinesh Yadav, who was in charge of Nithari investigation, called up Shivpal Singh Yadav, Chief Minister M Mulayam Singh's brother and the UP PWD Minister three times from his mobile phone.

This was just before Shivpal visited Nithari to describe the serial killings as "small, routine incidents".

shishir Feb 2 02 February 2007: Kin of Nithari victims visit CBI
http://www.saharasamay.com/samayhtml/articles.aspx?newsid=69544
Kin of Nithari victims visit CBI headquarters

New Delhi, Feb 2: It was an emotionally trying moment for parents of victims of the serial killings at Nithari's as they came face-to-face with the alleged murderers when they were brought to the CBI headquarters here today.

Ram Kishan, the father of three-year-old victim Harsh, said he felt a sudden rush of uncontrollable anger when he sighted Moninder Singh Pandher, accused of killing 17 women and children along with his servant Surender Koli.

"We were put face-to-face with Moninder but he avoided eye contact and did not talk," Kishan said.

Parents of some of the victims were brought to the CBI headquarters before being taken to AIIMS for obtaining DNA samples to be matched with those from skeletal remains found in a drain near Pandher's home at Nithari.

The parents and siblings of victims were taken to AIIMS by the Uttar Pradesh Police on the directions of the CBI, which is not satisfied with the results of DNA tests conducted earlier at a local hospital.

The DNA samples were taken after the families of victims consented to the CBI's demand, sources said. Police in Noida had taken blood samples from parents of the victims on January 6.

shishir Feb 2 02 February 2007: Nithari: Blood sampling of victi
http://www.saharasamay.com/samayhtml/articles.aspx?newsid=69528
Nithari: Blood sampling of victims' kin on

New Delhi, Feb 2: A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) took family members of those hapless children, who became victims of serial killers Surendra Koli and Moninder Singh Pandher in Nithari village of Noida over a period of time, to All India Institute of medical Sciences (AIIMS) for blood sampling today, Sahara Samay sources said.

According to the channel's reporter, these people were taken to the hospital in batches for the blood sampling so as to establish if the children killed by Koli and Pandher actually belonged to them.

A total of 18 people have been taken to AIIMS for the blood sampling and this process is likely to continue till Saturday.

Earlier on Thursday, CBI arrested one Nisha, who worked as a maid at Monider's place. She gave some important information regarding the hideous killings.

shishir Feb 5 February 04, 2007: Nithari top cop’s transfer spar
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1077988
Nithari top cop’s transfer sparks protests
Gyan Varma
Sunday, February 04, 2007 21:53 IST
(Media!!)

NEW DELHI: Angry protests against the transfer of top Noida cop continued for the second consecutive day outside the Nithari village on Sunday as family members of victims gathered at the village to show their support for R K S Rathore.

The state government had transferred senior superintendent of police R.K.S. Rathore on Saturday after accepting the recommendations of the high-level official committee that had carried out investigations in the events that lead to the abduction and murder of minors and women from the village. The committee had found Rathore guilty of not carrying out proper investigations in the case and asked the state government to take strict action against him.

“This is an unfair decision by the government. I think there is a conspiracy behind this transfer to delay the investigations because he was the one who had initially taken action against the killer duo,” said Sunil Vishwas, who has lost his 10-year-old daughter in April 2006. His daughter went missing when she was playing outside the house of Moninder Singh Pandher.

Amar Sarkar, whose 8-year-old daughter reportedly went missing in July last year, outside the village while coming back from school said, “We were planning to approach the government to allow Rathore to investigate the case. We believe that he is the one who would be able to get them punished by law,”

“We have met the CM and hope that our demands would be met,” he added.

shishir Feb 5 tehelka: COMMITTEE REPORT
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‘If Rathore had filed FIR on time and arrested Pandher, seven lives would have been saved’

Even the Uttar Pradesh government’s own report finds Noida police officialdom guilty of gross negligence and dereliction of duty, report Mihir Srivastava and Sanjay Dubey

A high-level two-member inquiry committee constituted by the UP government to look into how the police handled the complaints from parents of missing children, found two Senior Superintendents of Police, Noida, RKS Rathore and Piyush Mordia guilty of gross dereliction of duty.

The committee’s conclusions were contained in its final report, which was submitted to the government on January 5 by the two members — AC Sharma, adg (Crime and Law and Order) and AK Sinha, UP Home Secretary. They had submitted an interim report on January 3.

Compared to Mordia, the final report is more severe in its indictment of Rathore. However, while Mordia was suspended immediately after the interim report was submitted, Rathore has not been suspended yet.

The report states: “SSP RKS Rathore was unable to get Payal’s FIR registered in time. The FIR was lodged on October 6 and contained the names of both the men arrested by the police. It is only after this that the facts of the case came out in the open… Had Rathore ordered the registration of the FIR and arrested the duo, seven lives would have been saved. Rathore’s gross folly reflects his negligence and ineptitude. He is recommended for a major punishment.”

Citing the police’s criminal indifference, the report says, “FIRs were not lodged even in cases which involved minors. Such cases of kidnapping must be immediately registered, as minors could not have given any legal consent. Similarly, in the cases involving adults, FIRs were not registered even after many days.”

shishir Feb 5 [contd..]
The reasons why the committee recommended punishment for Mordia and Rathore in its interim and final reports are their inability to get the cases registered and their failure to give necessary instructions to their juniors. In light of this, the following observations in the report are pertinent:

The reports state that after the recovery of human skeletons from D-5, Sector 31, in Noida it became clear that the police had no information whatsoever about five victims whose skeletal remains was found. The final report says, “There is a strong possibility that the reports (about the missing victims) were not lodged even after their kin had informed the police that they were missing… This is a grave error and indicates how this ps functioned.”
Four of these five abductions occurred during Rathore’s tenure as SSP, Noida. Only one case of not filing an FIR happened during Mordia’s tenure. The report also states: “The yearly and half-yearly inspection of the Sector 20 ps was done by RK Vishwakarma, DIG Meerut range; RKS Rathore, SSP, Gautam Budh Nagar; Saumitra Yadav, SP City; and Sewak Ram Yadav, CO. The SSP, SP City and circle officer also conducted surprise inspections. They should have given the necessary instructions during their inspections so that proper efforts could have been taken.”

shishir Feb 5 [contd...]
The report’s indictment of the police is forthright, “The police’s first shortcoming was that instead of registering FIRs, only entries in the (GD) General Diary were made. Second, the available details about the missing children were not analysed properly and the investigation was limited to prostitution and begging gangs. Third, in the case of Payal, five months were lost before an FIR was lodged. Fourth, Moninder Pandher was summoned to the ps earlier but he was not interrogated properly. Fifth, the ps had no information at all about the five victims who were missing. Sixth, by and large, the police officials did not show any empathy with the victims.”

Rathore and Dinesh Yadav, Circle Officer, Noida — both still in service — stand guilty on all the six counts, whereas some of the suspended police officers including Mordia are not guilty on all the counts. However, Rathore is still in-charge of Noida police and the report gives Yadav only rap in the knuckles after holding him responsible for serious lapses. The report recommends minor punishment for him, saying that after the registration of an FIR in Payal’s case, he worked with complete dedication. Tehelka has evidence which shows Dinesh Yadav’s complicity in covering up the crime and how he was virtually forced by the High Court to finally solve the case.

Instead of the 12 cases of missing victims during Rathore’s tenure as SSP, Noida, the report provides information on only 8 cases, whereas it correctly provides information on all the 19 victims who went missing during Mordia’s tenure. This indicates two possible scenarios — either at the time of the committee’s inquiry on January 2-3, the police did not know exactly how many went missing during Rathore’s tenure or wrong information was provided to the committee, possibly to save Rathore and Dinesh Yadav.

shishir Feb 5 [contd...]
There is no mention of Rathore or Yadav in the interim report, but it recommended action against three senior police officers — Mordia, Saumitra Yadav and SR Yadav, and six junior officers — Vinod Pandey, Rajiv Baliyan, KP Singh, Simranjit Kaur who were in-charge of the police post — and sos RN Yadav and Deepak Chaturvedi.

In the final report, the committee also recommends milder action against some junior police officials. The report also observes that there were several chowki in-charges in Nithari, such as Chhote Singh, Yaad Ram Singh and Sati Chauhan who were transferred within a month of taking charge, even though not a single case of a missing person was reported during their tenure. However Simranjit Singh, despite having been suspended several times earlier, stayed on in the chowki for almost four months even after the skeletons were found. Tehelka has proof that Sati Chauhan provided false evidence to the court in Payal’s case, but this was not known to the committee and hence does not find mention in the report.

It appears that in the process of saving two senior police officers, Rathore and Yadav, four junior officers — RN Parashar, Anuj Kumar, Kamal Singh Yadav and VP Singh — also escaped punishment.

Severely indicting the entire Noida police force, the committee observes, “The Sector 20 ps, and offices of the co, sp and SSP are within two kilometers of Nithari. The relatives of the missing people were in constant touch with all the officials. This means that right from the in-charge of the police post to the senior officials, all were in the know of this matter.”

The committee’s report enumerates lapses before the Nithari case became a national sensation, but the police’s inability to find at least 20 more skeletons and missing torsos of the children from the drain behind house D-5, Sector 31 requires another high-level inquiry.

shishir Feb 7 6 Feb, 2007: Nithari families sing paeans of CM, S
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Lucknow/Nithari_families_sing_paeans_of_CM_Shivpal/articleshow/1565150.cms
Nithari families sing paeans of CM, ShivpalAdd to Clippings

KANPUR: Haunted by the ghost of Nithari, the desperate Uttar Pradesh government is now seeking quack cures to salvage its lost credibility. A day after chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav assured jobs to the kin of 17 Nithari victims at his residence in Lucknow, the iniquitous plot to sedate aftershocks of the gruesome incident came to the fore in Kanpur, which was nowhere in the picture until Monday.

After meeting with the CM at his official residence in Lucknow on Sunday, the kin of Nithari victims numbering 11, on their way back to Noida, halted in Kanpur for a night. As soon as they reached, the district administration arranged a luxury hotel for their stay. Next morning, the DM's office intimated mediapersons that the kin of Nithari victims would address a press conference at the President Hotel in Fazalganj locality of Kanpur.

The treatment meted out to reporters and the visiting Nithari residents at the hotel was contrary to expectations. Expecting to meet with a group of harried and grieving people, reporters were shocked to see parents of innocent kids who had fallen victim to the alleged demonic designs of Moninder Singh Pandher and Surinder Koli seated beside tables piled with French fries, kaju barfi and paneer-pakoras. Of course, there was coffee, tea, soft-drinks and mineral water to wash all that down.

shishir Feb 7 [contd....]
For a while it looked like a corporate group's press briefing about a new start-up.

Hospitality over, the victims' kin took the dais and started singing paeans of Mulayam, his clan and Samajwadi Party. They spoke more like SP spokesmen rather than bereaved parents. They complained that none of the Opposition leaders, mainly BSP supremo Mayawati, visited Nithari but SP leaders including Shivpal Yadav had visited the village to share the agony of the affected families. They also justified Mulayam's decision to skip the Nithari visit.