Child Cannibalism in India

It is one of the most macabre tales of child cannibalism. The incident came to light when by chance the human bones were discovered in the backyard drain running across the sprawling bungalow of the main accused Moninder Singh.

Moninder Singh is a local businessman residing in Noida, Utter Pradesh, North India. The finding of human's bones had led to the police raiding his house and carrying out digging operation in his courtyard. Shockingly more human bones and skills were recovered.

Moninder Singh and his man Friday Surendra Koli were immediately taken into custody. In a shocking confession to the police Surendra Koli confessed to killing 17 persons and many of them were children. The police said that Surendra apart from supplying call girls to his master would also lure innocent children passing outside the bungalow with false pretext of offering sweets.

The victims, once, drawn inside the dingy rooms of the house, his master Moninder would sexually assault the children. After fulfilling his lust, the children were either strangulated or hacked to death. It was left to his servant Surendra to dismember the body and dump them in the backyard drain.

Surprisingly this gruesome killing went on for two years with out the local police having no clues any about it. What is most baffling about the local police is their ineptitude and callousness, despite receiving many written complains of missing person from the victim's parents.

Now it has come to light is that the paedophile Moninder was arrested in the past, but he managed to walk out of the police station, by bribing Rs.2.5 lakhs, to the local police officer. Unfortunately, many lives would have been saved had the police refused graft and instead put Moninder under arrest.

Another baffling mystery adding to this incident is that though the police have discovered many human bones and skulls, the main part torso is still missing from the bodies. Many theory doing rounds about the motive for killing is that besides sexual angle, the victims vital organs were removed and traded in the market.

Just as the whole nation was coming to grip with this gruesome incident the latest confession from Surendra has jolted the collective conscience of everyone. Surendra having absolved his master Moninder of the committing any crime, has admitted to killing all the victims. He would cut up the bodies and then slit them down the middle to reach the organs, mainly the liver which he would then eat. This human flesh eating incident reminds us of the film 'The Silence of the Lambs'.

In the political map of India, Uttar Pradesh is a very important state. It is about to go for assembly election. The insensitive politicians cutting across all parties have given this ghastly incident a political colour by promising to make it their election plank in the coming election. This speaks of the rot that has set in Indian political systems.