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'Police Did Not Act
Because We Were Poor'
Noida, Dec 30 (IANS) Distraught
parents of the missing children, alleged to have been sexually
abused and killed by a psychopathic killer duo, and their skeletons
unearthed from a house here claim the police were indifferent to the
missing person complaints they had filed because they are poor.
Noida police has recovered 16 skulls so far and the skeletal remains
of children from the drain behind a house in Noida's Sector 31 area
and arrested Sardar Mohinder Singh, the businessman owner of the
house, and his domestic help Satish on charges of abducting and
murdering minor children.
Around 38 children, mostly girls, in the age group of 3-11 years,
have gone missing from Nithari, a semi-rural village on the edges of
this upscale suburban town, in the past 21 months. The first
kidnapping was reported in March 2005.
"We came to know of skeletons being found from TV reports and we
have come in search of our missing child. We always suspected that
someone from the village was involved in the disappearance of our
child but police did not take action even after repeated
complaints," said Amar Halder, whose 11-year-old niece had gone
missing four months ago.
"I work in a factory and do not earn enough to bribe the police. The
police only want money from us. Action should be taken against the
policemen," he added, holding aloft the photograph of his niece and
a copy of the police complaint he had filed.
"We came to Delhi in search of work for a better living, and ended
losing our children like this. Police did not take action only
because they were the children of poor families being kidnapped and
murdered," said Sunil Biwas, whose eight-year-old daughter went
missing while plying near the house of Mohinder Singh.
"Every time we went to the police post in the village to enquire
about our child, we were abused and beaten by the police," he said.
After a few months when they realized that police were not doing
enough to look for their children, the villagers constituted a team
themselves to look for the children.
"We went to Mumbai, Jaipur, Bharatpur, Agra and Kolkta in search of
our children as we suspected that they might have been forced into
the flesh trade," added Biswas, who works as a rickshaw puller in
Noida.
Anil Halder, a daily wage laborer whose 14-year-old daughter never
returned home one day, is angry too.
"She had gone to play with her friends after coming from school but
she never returned. She was plying near the same house," he said,
breaking down in tears.
"When I went to report about my missing daughter at the police
station, the officials told me not to bother them as my daughter had
fled with someone. They did not investigate it properly. Had they
carried out proper investigations, the lives of many children would
have been saved," Anil Halder told IANS.
Many people from Delhi and Ghaziabad, whose children went missing,
have come to the village.
"My seven-year-old son went missing seven months ago," said Dara
Singh, whose mentally challenged son Akash disappeared from their
house in Kalyanpuri in east Delhi.
Neena Singh, mother of 16-year-old Hardev, was also at Nithari
village hoping to get information about her son who is missing since
August.
The village has a population of over 25,000 people, mostly migrants
from West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar who have come in search of
work in the Indian capital and other nearby cities.
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