Word: nithari
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...Noida police quickly transferred two officers off the case. The department had already received much criticism for its inept handling of the so-called Nithari case in December 2006, in which the remains of 18 children and women were recovered from a drainage ditch, apparently the victims of rape, murder and cannibalism that had gone undetected for months, if not years...
...grieving families of Nithari, these reforms will come too late. "What if the police investigated when Bina first went missing?" asks Arun Sarkar, the uncle of one of the first victims. "Maybe then all of our children would still be here...
...dismembered bodies were pulled out of a storm drain in Noida, an affluent suburb of New Delhi, beginning Dec. 29, residents of the nearby Nithari slum looked on in horror. But their revulsion quickly turned to grief and anger when it emerged that the dead-six boys and 11 girls and young women-hailed from Nithari and were victims of a serial killer. Residents of the slum had repeatedly warned the police that a murderer appeared to be operating in the area, and distraught parents say they had implored the authorities to help search for their missing children-only...
...Three of the victims lived on the same floor of the same run-down apartment building in Nithari and one had been reported missing for nearly two years. Yet not once did the police come to the building to investigate the disappearances. Many of the victims were pretty young women like Bina Halder, 13, who vanished on March 15, 2005. She had been working as a maid in order to raise enough money for a dowry that would allow her a marriage good enough to escape the neighborhood. But when her mother, Aloki Halder, went to the police to report...
...Thirty-eight young women and children have gone missing from Nithari slum since February 2005. Fifteen of them, including Bina, have since been identified by body parts and clothing found at the house. Many of the victims' torsos still have not been found, leading some investigators to speculate that the internal organs may have been harvested and sold. Dr. Vinod Kumar, who presided over some of the post-mortem investigations, remarked that the skulls seemed to have been removed from the bodies with medical precision. Photographs of Pandher posing with nude children, including one where he appears to be watching...