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News of Jan 6, 2007
Killer Man's Cook Kept Her Son
Away from Him

Malda (West Bengal), Jan 6
Even as she cooked food for him, Maya Sarkar kept her own son from coming anywhere near the man charged with masterminding the massacre of many children near the Indian capital.

Villagers here say they now understand why Maya never took Prasenjit from West Bengal's Malda district to Noida, where she worked at businessman Moninder Singh Pandher's bungalow - the site of the cold blooded killings.

Maya is now in police custody in Uttar Pradesh while Prasenjit stays with his stepbrother Chiranjib in Nalagola village in Malda district. Chiranjib is the son of the first wife of Maya's husband.

Police, who Friday visited the village to inquire about Maya, admitted that the reasoning of the villagers held sound logic.

Maya's son Prasenjit said she never took him to Noida despite his repeated pleas, according to local reports.

"What has my mother done? Won't she ever come back?" asks Prasenjit, a student of Class V. "Everyone here says she has been arrested. I always wanted to stay with her but she never took me."

Each time Prasenjit used to cry over the phone to be with his mother, Maya insisted that he stay back in the village and study hard. "If you come here you will be in danger," she allegedly told him.

It was perhaps to protect the boy from Pandher's fatal attentions that she never took her son with her, said a police official in Malda.

"The boy (Prasenjit) was taken to Noida once but Maya sent him back hurriedly. We can now understand why," a villager said.

Anil Roy, the officer-in charge of the Bamungola police station in Malda, said the police would also inquire into the cases of children who went missing from the area in the last two years.

Maya, who worked in Noida with her husband, sported a flashy lifestyle on her recent visits here, the villager added. 

IANS  News of Jan 6, 2007  

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