Shock in India by the discovery of fifteen children raped and murdered

New Delhi, December 30, 2006. - India woke up in shock today after new discoveries of skeletal remains in the house of Noida, a town near New Delhi, where yesterday the bodies of 15 children who were raped and murdered, without stopping two people have served to appease public anger.
Dozens of parents moved into the house, situated in a popular area full of humble workers, brandishing photographs of their missing children and observing the work of the police, who discovered today a new bag of bones in a drain, said the chain NTDV television.
Near the house there are still swirling hundreds of people, some of which have thrown stones at the house and tried to get into it, while police continue with the exhumation of bodies and does not rule out increasing the number of killed.
Security forces yesterday arrested an employee of the home of 30 years, Satinder, who has confessed to the murder and rape of twelve children.
In addition, the employer was also arrested Mohinder Singh, who assumed today that the crimes were committed by the employee with "knowledge and consent," police said.
Both have gone to court, charged with murder, conspiracy and concealment of evidence, which in India can carry the death penalty.
The arrests have failed to appease the wrath of the residents of Noida, who had recorded 38 disappearances of children in the past two years, although half of the cases went unreported because many victims were immigrants residing illegally in the municipality and Police feared.
However, some relatives of the children had gone without success to make complaints against Satinder, father of a girl three years and described by police as "mentally ill", which yesterday admitted raping and murdering six children under 12 years "after lure them with chocolates. "
"The security forces ignored us," said the paternal uncle of a missing child in February the newspaper "Hindustan Times", while another villager said he had told the police that "children always disappear within 100 meters ".
In the district that recorded crimes, Nithari, is the frequent presence of children in the streets, because most of the population are immigrants and is engaged in menial jobs, which has led many people in the population suggest that the Police case was not concerned by the low status of those affected.
The police was quick to deny the allegations of inaction, saying that in recent months had several research teams in cities like Calcutta, Bombay and Madras, on the trail of missing children. reported television-CNN IBN.
Together the two men, police have also questioned the neighbor next door, a few months involved in a case of organ trafficking, as it is thought that the event is related to the extent that agents also began excavations home.
The remains of children were found in bags buried in a drainage area of the courtyard of the house of businessman arrested during the investigation into the disappearance of a girl named Payal.
The police arrested Satinder used because of the small mobile phone after her murder, allowing the agents to find him tracing the calls.
However, the villagers already suspected for a while.
"We thought we could be involved Satinder because children always disappeared when he came to town," said Jhabulal the newspaper "Hindustan Times", before ensuring that the dead children "amounts to at least 50", but police found only 15 skulls.
While India remains steeped in wonder, major newspapers carried a front-page crime, where they have given to the alleged murderer of the abominable title of "Butcher of Noida."

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Thematic area:

1. Controversy over police work in the case of the 17 children raped and murdered
2. More than 2 million children under five die each year in India
3. At least 30 dead and 60 wounded in two blasts in south India
4. Corruption corrodes the prospects for India's development
5. Caste and color in urban India