Moninder Singh Pandher
Posted on 01/06/2007 8:43:16 PM PST by cmdjing
When Vandana Sarkar, an impoverished migrant worker, went to the police in October to report that her 20-year-old daughter was missing, she recalled Friday, officers laughed and said, “Why do you people have so many children if you can’t look after them?”
Their casual response should not have come as a surprise. At least 30 other sets of parents had reported children missing from the same slum area in Noida, an affluent suburb of Delhi, over recent months. Some say they were dismissed as “drunken trouble-makers.” Others claim officers refused even to register their complaints.
It was only when 17 chopped-up bodies, most of them belonging to children, were found in the sewers behind the home of a wealthy local resident on Dec. 29 that the Noida police were finally stirred into action.
What seems clearly a case of serial killing on the fringes of the capital has become a national scandal, with public horror at the brutal details interwoven with outrage at the police department’s failure to investigate.
That India has a two-tier justice system is nothing new. Only widespread protest drove the courts to order a retrial for a rich young man acquitted in February of fatally shooting a model at a party in 1999. In December, the accused, Manu Sharma, was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.
And when the 3-year-old son of an Indian executive disappeared near his Noida home in November, it was instantly national news. The police immediately began a huge hunt, found the abductors and returned the child to his distraught parents.
But the case of the dead and missing slum children has provided a brutally stark example of how the law does not work for the marginalized, shocking even the most jaundiced observers of the nation’s legal processes.
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"ho hum"? what's that supposed to mean?
he's a chicom. Posts anything about India to show how great China is. He's to be ignored.
really?
Looks like the new year directives from cmdjing's chicom bosses are clear. Make India look bad on FR.
Keep going cmdjing...you sure seem to have a lot of time on your hands if you're not employed for this very purpose.
Oh please. This is reported not by The Peiking Times, but New York Times. It can't be bia...... okay, I take that back. But it is still news.
Official dismissal of reports of disappearance is abominable. The officials should be stripped of their authority and prosecuted and jailed. The police is there to serve the public, which includes poorest slum dwellers who have their children missing.
cmdjing a.k.a Pganini?
How does posting news stories about the murder of Indian slum dwellers show how great China is?
I wonder why Indian freepers get so defensive when anyone posts a negative story about India...Also if you want to say that India is great, its corollary does not have to be that China is bad....
India has her problems...Acknowledgment of a problem is the first step to solve it...As far as serial killings are concerned, US has got plenty...So reporting a story on serial killings in India does not show India in a bad light at least in American media...In fact that would help Americans identify themselves with the place...They see plenty of such nonsense every day....
I am a well wisher of India..but I have a sense of lack of self confidence on part of some of Indian freepers...There is no reason for that...
In the posters mind, posting negative India articles validates China and it's rise, etc. This person has been on here by other names.
As far as serial killing is concerned hasn't the Communist Chinese State carried out plenty of its own that the lickspittles of their regime should go around sniffing for serial killers elsewhere?
And whats wrong in mentioning the Chinese State serial killers in the context of the above discussion on serial killings in India?
Think about it this way....
The very mention of China the focus of discussion changes. The very mention of China is an indication of the inate importance that you render to China..By thinking about someone else you lose the oppurtunity and time to carry out improvement in yourself...In the meanwhile they continue to develop themselves..
That is the reason of not mentioning the Chinese..There nothing you can change in china by
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