Word: slum
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...dismembered bodies were pulled out of a storm drain in Noida, an affluent suburb of New Delhi, beginning Dec. 29, residents of the nearby Nithari slum looked on in horror. But their revulsion quickly turned to grief and anger when it emerged that the dead-six boys and 11 girls and young women-hailed from Nithari and were victims of a serial killer. Residents of the slum had repeatedly warned the police that a murderer appeared to be operating in the area, and distraught parents say they had implored the authorities to help search for their missing children-only...
...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 the past two years, with little response from the authorities. "The most important aspect of these murders is not why the victims were killed or by whom, but the failure of the police to protect the powerless," says Swati Mehta, a consultant for the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative...
...concern themselves with the plight of the poor. Nowhere is that more evident than in Noida, where servants in the extravagant new suburban mansions commute from the squalor of the shantytown next door. When the CEO's son was kidnapped, it dominated the national news, whereas the disappearance of slum children was ignored by the press until their bodies started to be recovered...
...Still, if the police had kept better track of what was going on in the slum, the House of Horrors might never have existed. "What if the police investigated when Bina first went missing?" asks the uncle of victim Aladi Halder, who lived across the hall from Bina's family. "Maybe then all of our children would still be here, living with...
...Thirty-eight young women and children have gone missing from Nithari slum since February 2005. Fifteen of them, including Bina, have since been identified by body parts and clothing found at the house. Many of the victims' torsos still have not been found, leading some investigators to speculate that the internal organs may have been harvested and sold. Dr. Vinod Kumar, who presided over some of the post-mortem investigations, remarked that the skulls seemed to have been removed from the bodies with medical precision. Photographs of Pandher posing with nude children, including one where he appears to be watching...