Nithari Kand: The Psycho Serial Killer of India

73,138

 

This is the count of children who went 'missing' in the year 2019.

 

According to NCRB, every 8 minutes in India, a kid goes missing.

 

The saddest thing about this is that behind these numbers are thousands of innocent faces

 

whose lives have become worse than hell.

 

What happens to these children

 

who still have to live their whole life ahead and explore the world?

 

Those who run away willingly from their home, either do labor

 

or become a member of a criminal gang.

 

Most children get trapped in things like child trafficking or organ trade.

 

and some fall into the hands of such beasts who do cannibalism.

 

Cannibalism is basically the act of humans

 

eating flesh and internal organs of other humans.

 

Today we'll talk about such a case from Noida

 

after listening to which the whole nation shuddered.

 

In Nithari police station in 2005,

 

back to back complaints of children and women going missing were being registered,

 

But, the majority of reports were disapproved saying

 

that the parents are claiming the child's age to be younger,

 

and they're not minors but adults

 

who've run away from their home.

 

Some reports were also disapproved saying

 

"She's a girl, so she must've run away from home."

 

In 2005, while playing cricket

 

in Sector D-5, some children saw a hand in a plastic

 

in the back drain.

 

When the police were told about this,

 

at that time the police told the villagers

 

that the hand doesn't belong to a human, but an animal.

 

Some villagers also believed

 

that the area from where children were going missing

 

there was a ghost residing there.

 

On 7th May 2006,

 

a 26-year-old girl, Payal's dad

 

Nand Lal went to the police station to file her missing complaint.

 

According to him, Payal went to Moninder Singh Pandher's in an autorickshaw.

 

And when they reached Moninder Singh's home,

 

in his absence, his domestic help Surinder Koli

 

told them that they don't know anything about Payal.

 

Police didn't want to take this matter seriously at all,

 

and even Nand Lal was tired of going back and forth in the police station.

 

After a month, Nand Lal approached the SSP of that time

 

and when Payal's phone was traced

 

it was found that the last location of her phone was

 

at the house of Moninder Singh Pandher.

 

And when SSP asked for the call records of Payal,

 

the story was saying something else.

 

After seeing the call records it was known that

 

one night before Payal went missing,

 

Surinder Koli and Payal had talked on the phone.

 

But, when Nand Lal asked Surinder Koli about Payal

 

then he'd denied it.

 

For further investigation, the police had taken Surinder Koli in custody

 

but Moninder Singh Pandher, the owner of the bungalow had bailed him out

 

because apart from the call records, the police didn't have any other proof.

 

In October, Nand Lal approached the Court

 

and on 29th December 2006,

 

the creepy sight that this Nithari village of Noida saw,

 

would scare any person and make them cry.

 

That day in the back drain of Sector 31 Bungalow No. D-5

 

many skeletons were found wrapped in plastic.

 

Seeing this, the whole country shivered.

 

Surinder Koli was alone in his bungalow that day

 

and his master had gone to Chandigarh to meet his family.

 

The police arrested both of them.

 

The whole nation wished to get justice

 

and because of having so much pressure

 

on 10th Jan 2007, the authorities have this case to CBI.

 

Special CBI court gave the order to keep Koli and Pandher in CBI custody.

 

After being 60 days in custody,

 

no other proof was found against these two.

 

Pandher's whole family used to stay in Chandigarh

 

and he used to stay alone with his servant in Bungalow D-5.

 

It was also known that sometimes

 

Pandher used to bring call girls in his house.

 

On 27th February 2007,

 

Koli confessed his crime on his own.

 

In some way or the other, Surinder Koli trapped them

 

and took them inside D-5 and murdered them.

 

It doesn't end here.

 

He also confessed that he tried to have sex

 

with the dead bodies of his victims.

 

Surinder also said that he would go to the bathroom

 

and cut those bodies in pieces

 

and would cook those pieces in the kitchen and eat them.

 

And whatever was left, he would wrap that in plastic and throw them in the back drain.

 

While the CBI was investigating, it was known that

 

to the security in-charge, Simranjeet Kaur,

 

Pandher would often bribe him on a regular basis.

 

Because of the ignorance of police and authorities,

 

the people who could've been saved, even they lost their lives.

 

The Government sent a two-member team to Noida

 

and suspended SSP, ASP, Circle officer, and 3 securities in-charges

 

In, 2007 Ministry of Women and Child Development

 

sent their expert committee to Nithari

 

to investigate this case.

 

Dr. Vinod Kumar, the Chief Medical Superintendent of Noida observed that

 

the cuts in the bodies were done in a very precise way

 

which were pointing to organ trading.

 

But, even after doing an in-depth investigation about organ trading,

 

CBI didn't get any proof.

 

For the court trials, Surinder Koli didn't hire a lawyer

 

instead, he was representing his own case.

 

On 10th September 2009, both the criminals, Koli and Pandher

 

given the punishment of death sentence for the case of rape and murder of 14-year-old Rimpa Hardal.

 

But, where Koli's punishment was confirmed,

 

at the same time, the Allahabad Court declared Pandher innocent

 

and after some time, Koli's death sentence was changed to a life sentence.

 

In 2017, CBI Court Moninder Pandher and Surinder Koli

 

both of them were given a death sentence for the murder and rape of Pinky Sarkar.

 

Koli was held guilty in the 12th Nithari murder case on 16th Jan 2021,

 

while Pandher was acquitted.

 

According to Nithari's recent status,

 

Koli was declared innocent in the 13th murder case

 

due to the lack of biological evidence.

 

Judgments on the remaining cases are yet to be delivered.

 

Today, both the criminals are behind bars in the Dasna jail.

 

But, all the evidences strongly accuse Koli for 16 murders

 

and the CBI has told it has no connection with Pandher.

 

Pandher was accused of only 1 immoral-trafficking case.

 

But to the accusations of the victims' relatives,

 

Ghaziabad Court has accused Pandher of 5 more cases.

 

Pandher's lawyer, Devraj Singh, said in the Ghaziabad Court that

 

"Of the six cases that are pending,"

 

"only one is pending at the Ghaziabad Court"

 

"and the remaining are pending to be appealed before the Higher Courts."

 

The most troubling thing is that

 

even after doing so much,

 

there was no sign of guilt in Surinder Koli's face,

 

he never looked sad,

 

and some officers who were working on this case also said that

 

after seeing Koli it would never feel like he could do something like this.

 

In fact, even after getting arrested, he would have a smile on his face.

 

Now, all these traits, if not of a psychopath then what are they?

 

Koli had also said in his one confession that

 

his master would bring sex workers at night

 

and Koli would make food for him and his sex workers.

 

Seeing all this, even Koli developed an uncontrollable urge to have sex,

 

and that is why outside of D-5,

 

he would bring children and women into D-5

 

and misbehave with them.

 

He also described his urge of having sex

 

with dead bodies as a feeling of being possessed.

 

Now, it is also said that out of all these victims,

 

one victim is still alive

 

and she has written a letter to her dad

 

in which it is written that 'I am married and have settled in Nepal.'

 

Now, when this letter reached the police,

 

this whole matter was suppressed.

 

Now, if this is true or false,

 

no one knows the answer to this.

 

In between 2005 and 2006,

 

around 50 children went missing in Nithari and the nearby area

 

out of which only 16 dead bodies have been found whose murderer was Koli.

 

So, now the question pops up that where are the other children?

 

In 2014, Surinder's mom who is 68 years old,

 

came to Meerut jail from Uttarakhand to meet him.

 

When this 45 minutes meeting got over,

 

at that time Surinder's mom told the reporters that

 

Surinder cannot commit any crime.

 

Surinder told her that he was just a scapegoat

 

in between all the big people

 

and his mom said that if Pandher is not getting capital punishment,

 

then Surinder should also not be getting it

 

and if Surinder is hanged, even Pandher should be hanged.

 

A normal human dead body takes about 3 years to decompose

 

so if Koli has put all the victims in the shallow back drain

 

then why could not any of the neighbors get the foul smell of the body?

 

Just like this, there are many loopholes in this case.

 

In fact, BBC and Netflix both have made a documentary

 

about this particular case

 

in which the creators have portrayed Pandher as innocent.

 

So today it has been 17 years since this shocking Nithari case,

 

but still, there are cases that haven't been solved even today.

 

Today too there are still children going missing in India

 

and we are not able to trace them.

 

 

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