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...just the gruesomeness of the Noida murders that has captured India's attention, but the fact that they spotlight glaring inequalities in Indian society-and raise questions about whom public officials truly serve. Police have detained Moninder Singh Pandher, a businessman who lives in Noida, and his servant Surender Kohli, and charged them with kidnapping, rape and murder. While Kohli has confessed to the killings, Pandher's lawyer denies the charges against his client. But it's what the police did not do that has sparked outrage. Thirty-eight women and children had been reported missing from the slum over...
...police had asked questions, they might have spoken to a reclusive woman named Maya Sarkar, who lived on the same floor, knew most of the victims and worked as a maidservant at the three-story home of Moninder Singh Pandher, a businessman. Pandher and his servant Surender Kohli have now been arrested and charged with kidnapping, raping and killing the victims. Maya Sarkar is finally being questioned by the police...
...Pandher's servant Kohli has confessed to the killings, according to police. But an Indian public that has seen the rich literally get away with murder in the past may not want the investigation to stop there. Investigators have subjected both Kohli and Pandher to treatments of sodium pentathol, or truth serum, even though any evidence gathered under such conditions is imprecise and cannot be used in a court of law. Kohli has admitted under the influence of the drug that he consumed the livers of his victims, a chilling detail that has earned him the nickname Noida's Hannibal...
...supreme law of our land, and it governs our actions as citizens," he said. "Only the laws of God, who governs our consciences, are superior to it ... I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy...
...Congressman Jim Leach, the Iowa Republican, was a terrific public servant for 30 years. He was always independent, always scrupulously honest. He lost this year, and the manner of his losing is instructive. He refused to allow the Republican National Committee to distribute a negative mailing about his opponent. He called Ken Mehlman, then the r.n.c. chair, and threatened to caucus with the Democrats if such negative mailings didn't stop. They stopped, but the Congressman lost narrowly to an academic named Dave Loebsack, who had similarly refused to attack him. A former foreign service officer, Leach would make...