Posted on 12/29/2006 11:37:02 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
The Times December 30, 2006
House of death raises fears over 38 missing children
Jeremy Page, South Asia Correspondent
Hunt for victims as six bodies found
Organ transplant trade suspected
Police found the decomposed remains of at least six children in the backyard of a house near Delhi yesterday and are investigating whether they were murdered to harvest their organs.
The search for corpses is due to continue today amid reports that at least 38 children have gone missing in the past 18 months around the house in Noida, a newly developed township just outside Delhi.
Hundreds of relatives of the missing gathered outside the property yesterday, with many accusing the police of ignoring their cases because they were mostly poor migrant workers.
Police denied that and said that they had arrested the businessman who owned the house, identified as Mohinder Singh, and Satish, a 30-year-old man who worked there as a domestic servant.
The latter was “mentally ill”, according to the police, and had confessed to using sweets and toys to lure at least seven children to the house to sexually abuse and murder them.
K.S. Rathore, the local police chief, told reporters: “He says he kidnapped the children for sex.” But he added that a pharmacist in the area was also being questioned. “We suspect that he was also involved in the crime. He has a past record and he was arrested in 1999 for being involved in an organ transplant racket,” he said.
The gruesome discovery by the police comes just a month after the four-year-old son of the Chief Executive of Adobe India was kidnapped from near his home in Noida and released for a ransom of five million rupees. It highlights the rising crime rate in major Indian cities and the particular vulnerability of migrant workers who leave the countryside to seek employment by the wealthy urban elite.
Police said that they began their search after noticing a foul smell coming from the property in Noida’s Nithari Village while questioning Satish over the murder of a 16-year-old girl. There were conflicting reports about exactly how many corpses were found, and how many more children were missing.
Police said they found six bodies — two boys and four girls aged between six and 12 — hidden in a ditch behind the house. Some were whole skeletons while others were in parts.
But other local and police sources reported seeing evidence of between 12 and 30 corpses at the site.
Police said that only ten children had been reported missing in the area in the past year. Many residents said, however, that 38 children, mostly girls, had disappeared in the past 18 months, and some put the figure at 40.
Many angry residents accused the police of ignoring them because they were mostly migrants from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal working as domestic helps, drivers and fruit and vegetable vendors. Among those outside the house was Ram Kishan, whose three-year-old son, Harish, disappeared 11 months ago while playing in the street.
“It is the D5 bungalow. We always suspected something was going on because the children used to go missing from the 100 metre area [around it],” he said. “We had been telling police that 38 children have vanished in 18 months.”
Sunita Kumari, who irons for a living, said that her daughter Jyoti, 10, had been missing since May last year.
She said: “I have no clue what happened to my daughter. I sent her to the tailor and she’s been missing since then.”
Another woman indentified only as Kamlesh came to the house bearing a photograph of her missing nephew.
“It’s been over a year that my nephew has been missing and whenever we went to the police, we were told to register a complaint and look for the child ourselves,” she said.
“We told the police [we] were suspicious of this man [Satish] but they did not listen to us.”
A kind of grisly version of James Bond movie.
What organ harvest? Is it in the article?
As far as I know, this guy was a whacko paedophile, and lured children with candy, then raped and killed them. He and an aide then buried the bodies within the compound of his house.
He's going to hang.
Today, even though Saddam's execution is the big news across the world, in Indian television, this incident is.
Oops, I missed the second sentence. My oops!
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