Moninder Singh Pandher
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Moninder Singh Pandher was acquitted from being labeled as an alleged Indian serial killer. He, and his domestic servant Subhash Koli (alias Surendra) were the prime accused in the Noida serial killing of around twenty people, mostly children, from Nithari village in Sector 31 of Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. However, according to the CBI inquiry, only Surendra Koli was found to be responsible for the killings
In a media report, Surendra has confessed to the kidnap, rape and murder of least eight children, however, reports indicate that more than twenty children are missing and might be victims also. Partial skeletal remains of 4 women and 15 children have been unearthed around the house of Moninder Singh and the search for more remains is currently underway. Almost all the murdered children whose skeletons were found dumped in a drain behind house number D-5 in Noida’s Sector 31.Organ trade is looked upon by CBI which took the probe from NOIDA police.
Apparently, Moninder is an industrialist who studied from 1963-73 at the prestigious Bishop Cotton School in Shimla and graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi.
[edit] Recent Developments
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) however, took statements by Surendra Koli and gave a clean chit to Pandher. Surendra Koli, earlier in his depositions to the CBI before a judicial magistrate had completely exonerated Pandher. However, CBI had slapped lesser charges against Pandher for bribing police officials, indulging in prostitution, procuring call girls and destruction of evidence.
CBI filed 19 charges against Pandher and Koli of which Pandher is now exonerated in 3 of them and the latest on being on 4th May, 2007 for the murder of Nanda Devi.
CBI had earlier given clean chits for Pandher on charge sheets filed for the murder of Pinki Sarkar and Payal, based on Surendra Koli's confession and that Pander was not at the crime scene on the day of killings
