| Thursday, January 25, 2007 |
| Nithari horror: Frequent flip-flops by key accused confounds CBI |
The numerous somersaults in their statements done by Moninder Singh Pandher and Surendra Koli, the key accused in the bizarre Nithari serial killings, are perplexing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing the case.
Moninder and his other domestic help Surinder are accused of raping and murdering at least 17 children and women at his house in Nithari, near Noida.
The CBI is likely to conduct fresh polygraph tests on the two key accused as the Central investigating agency doubts the veracity of what they have been telling during interrogation.
It has already conducted a lie-detector test on Moninder Singh Pandher's maid, Maya, to ascertain the facts and verify the information given by her about the two accused.
During the polygraph test, the CBI had asked Maya about the statements made by some women and children that she used to stalk them at the behest of Surendra Koli. Some children and women in Nithari claimed that she had tried to lure them into the house.
The CBI had decided to carry out a polygraph test on Maya after she repeatedly changed her statements on whether she had knowledge about the alleged killings in Pandher's D-5 house by his servant Surendra Koli.
Maya had told the CBI that she had no knowledge about the killings and that she had never seen any blood stains in that house.
Maya, who had been detained by the Uttar Pradesh police and later let off, has left for her hometown, fearing public outrage in Nithari.
Meanwhile, in response of an advertisement put out by the CBI to the general public asking them to share information about their missing wards, the agency has been flooded with reports of missing offspring and the number was running into hundreds.
The CBI had also begun extracting the DNA from the skeletons and viscera, exhumed from the D-5 house of Pandher. DNA samples from the parents, who have filed reports about their missing kin, were also being taken.
Meanwhile, the skeletal remains that had been sent to the Forensic Laboratory in Agra have been brought here and handed over to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), where the individualisation process of skeletal remains would be done.Labels: nithari |
| posted by a correspondent @ 1:02 AM |
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