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News of Jan
6, 2007
Sonia visits Nithari,
Police do not rule out Cannibalism
By Prashant K. Nanda and
Sharat Pradhan
Noida/Lucknow,
Jan 6
On a day when Congress president Sonia Gandhi visited Nithari
village where two men allegedly abused and killed at least 20
children in a macabre drama that has hit world headlines, police
Saturday did not rule out the possibility that the duo had
cannibalistic streaks in them.
"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," Noida Senior Superintendent of Police R.K.S.
Rathore told IANS.
TV 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 police aghast.
"I fail to understand how the media have concluded this when the
narco-analysis test on the accused (Moninder Singh Pandher and his
servant Surendra) has barely started," Rathore said.
Moninder and Surendra were flown to Ahmedabad Friday for a special
test at the Forensic Scientific Laboratory there.
"Our team is in no position to say anything until the narco-analysis
test is complete. In fact, the tests were to formally commence
Saturday," Rathore said.
Yet another angle that police are trying to investigate whether the
killings were part of an organ trade 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."
Meanwhile, Sonia Gandhi hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government
after meeting families of the massacred children.
Remains of several children were found last week from a drain behind
Pandher's bungalow in Sector 31 of Noida, at the edge of the
village, about 15 km from the Indian capital.
Gandhi went round the village, whose residents are mostly poor, and
saw the drain from which bones, slippers and clothes of at least 20
children have been dug out since Dec 29.
Accompanied by senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot, Gandhi spent
nearly 30 minutes in the village.
Blaming the Uttar Pradesh government for the heinous crime that has
shocked the nation, she said: "There is no law and order (in the
state) and you can see it for yourself.
"We have been demanding a CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation)
enquiry right from the beginning. Now the chief minister (Mulayam
Singh Yadav) has relented under pressure from the Congress," Gandhi
told reporters.
Yadav had Friday announced a probe by the CBI into the serial
killings.
Police accompanied by forensic experts, meanwhile, raided the home
of Naveen Chowdhury, a doctor and Pandher's neighbor.
"We searched the house of the doctor, a neighbor of Moninder, for
our investigation. The search went on for nearly two hours," a
senior police official said.
Police had raided Chowdhury's house Dec 31 as well but then forensic
experts were not part of the team. Police said the forensic experts
picked up some clues from the house and would use them in their
test.
Chowdhury, the managing director of Noida Medical Centre, was
accused of removing a patient's kidney in 1998. He, however, was
exonerated of the charge the same year.
IANS
News of Jan
6, 2007
Police Raid Noida Doctor's Home
Mulayam Orders CBI Probe into Noida
Killings
Once an Obscure Village, Now a VIP Halt
Noida Crimes: Blot on Civilized Society
All That Remains of Their Daughter – A Stained Stole
Nithari Killings: Two Top Cops Suspended,
Six Dismissed
Central
Government Panel to Probe Nithari Killings
Parents of Dead Nithari Kids are Given
Money
Moninder Pandher: A Disturbed Childhood
Serial Killer's House Ransacked
Serial Killers Derive Sadistic Pleasure: Experts
Police Chief Admits 'Laxity' over Serial
Killings
Skeletons of 17
Children Found, 9 Identified
Children's Killer Preyed on Victims for Two
Years
Police Did Not Act Because We Were Poor
Noida Police Unearth More Skeletons
Crime Against Children On The Rise in India
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