Shameless

For the last ten days, the story that is hogging most of the airtime on every news channel in India is the Noida serial killing. Two individuals, Mohinder Singh and Surendra managed to lure, sexually abuse and kill more than 35 young children. They were undetected for nearly two years. Repeated complaints by the parents of missing children fell on deaf ears of the lethargic and corruption ridden U.P Police. In many cases, not even an FIR was registered and the parents were spoken rudely to. This incident happened in the Nithari village near sector 30. Unlike the rest of Noida, this village is little more than a slum and most of its inhabitants work as domestic help in the neighboring developed residential areas.

This made the work of the psycopaths much easier. They used to lure the young children promising them candy. The older girls were promised work and good pay. After taking them to a plush bungalow in Sector 30, they were sexually abused and killed. This was not the work of some bumbling deranged criminal but was done in an extremely professional manner. The dead bodies were dipped in acid to remove all traces of flesh and then the skeletons were buried in the backyard of the bungalow. Also the doctors say that there is a possibility of organ trade being involved since the knee caps of all the skeletons were missing.

The government reacted by suspending and dismissing many police officers and giving a compensation of 2 lakhs to the families of the missing children. Now the case has been referred to the CBI. But is that enough?? If the police had taken concrete steps in investigating the early disappearances, many more innocent lives could have been saved.

Why did the police show such negligent behavior? A few months back when Adobe India's CEO's kid was kidnapped, the same UP police sprung into action immediately. Special teams were constituted, the CM immediately gave a statement assuring that the child will be returned safely at the earliest. This time, it took Mulayam Singh more than a week to issue a statement and refer the issue to the CBI.

The justice system for the poor and rich seem to be entirely different in our country inspite of the constitutional guarantee that all are equal before the law. The accused in this case is a well connected businessman who was able to subvert the whole justice system by bribing a few corrupt officials.

A few months ago I had written a blog advocating the use of capital punishment as an effective way to prevent more crimes. Many people who read it were of the opinion that capital punishment is wrong and we have no right to take a life. But what about this case now? Bastards like Mohinder Singh and Surendra cruelly ended so many young lives and conferred a even more harsh punishment on the parents who have to live in agony for the rest of their lives knowing the kind of end their children met. I don't see anyone more deserving of being hanged to death than these two.