Controversy over police work in the case of the 17 children raped and murdered

New Delhi, December 31, 2006. - The two accused for the rape and murder of at least 17 ​​children from the city of Noida, near New Delhi, still in custody of the authorities, while increasing debate about the possible police negligence the investigation.
Although at first the weight of the accusation fell on an employee's home of 30 years, Satinder, who confessed to the killings, late yesterday the police reported that the main brain of the crimes were allegedly the employer of Satinder, businessman Mohinder Singh Pandher.
Police have also ruled out the relationship of the case with organ trafficking, a hypothesis driven at first, and is now focused on the sexual motive, which led the defendants allegedly raping and murdering children.
"Mohinder was separated, and used to call girls for companionship. When not getting any, asked Satinder that would attract a child and invite him to the house where the owner was abusing them, "said PTI quoted by the Superintendent of Police RK Rathore.
The employee, described by police as "mentally ill", raping the children after their leader, after having attracted, he confessed, "with chocolate s", and later strangled, dismembered and threw the remains in bags to drain the rear of the house.
Between blows and shouts of a mob threatened to lynch them, both went to court yesterday charged with murder, conspiracy and concealment of evidence, which in India can carry the death penalty.
Meanwhile, dozens of parents continue today for a third day outside the house where they found the remains, located in an area full of humble workers, hoping that the work of exhuming the police provide more clues about the fate of their missing children, about 38 young in the last two years.
After discovering a new bag yesterday remains in a drain, it is possible that increasing the number of victims, the newspaper "The Times of India" now quantified at 22, ensuring that might rise even to 30.
As they advanced yesterday digging, growing anger among the several hundred people gathered around the house in the popular neighborhood of Nithari, to the point that the police had to charge the crowd, which tried to destroy the house where the accused.
However, the tension around the house gave way to despair when Satinder, held during police questioning to parents of children identified by ten photographs of children.
Some of those affected had not dared to denounce the disappearances because most Nithari residents are immigrants who were afraid of the police, but the population is shown in all cases very critical of the actions of the security forces.
"I work in a factory and do not earn enough money to bribe the police. He just wants our money, "he told PTI Pappu Lal, father of an eight year old boy disappeared in April.
Pappu had denounced the accused on several occasions, but police refused to act until the worker found in the company of other parents, children's clothing remains after the house of Mohinder.
Although the villagers had previously reported that the disappearance occurred in a radius of 100 meters, the humble condition of those affected is for many the reason for the slow police to investigate cases, though security forces were quick to deny the reviews, were later suspended from six police Nithani area, while the Congress Party today demanded 17,000 euros aid and public employment for affected families, according to the NDTV television channel.
The case of the "Butcher of Noida" these days has a wide coverage in the country's media, now collected for several children who should be alive for not accepting the candy bar that offered a stranger.

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