No organ trade in Nithari case: CBI

MURDER MOST GRUESOME: Pandher and Koli are the main accused in the murders of nearly 22 kids.

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New Delhi: Finally, there has been some headway into the Nithari killings. CBI sources have said that the post-mortem findings by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has confirmed that all vital organs - including kidneys and livers - were present in the bodies when they were buried.

With the post-mortem report, the CBI has now conclusively ruled out organ trade as a part of Nithari killings.

However, with this conclusion, the issue of cannibalism has again come into play.

According to sources, CBI officials are not satisfied with prime accused Moninder Singh Pandher's statement.

Moninder - behind whose house the skeletal remains of nearly 17 children were found - has been time and again denying his involvement in any of the murders.

He has only confessed to calling prostitutes to his residence.

The other main accused - Moninder's man servant, Surendra Koli - has on the other hand identified 15 of the children and one young woman, Payal, who were missing as his victims.

The CBI has called for the results of the narco-analysis, brain mapping and polygraph tests from the Gandhinagar forensic laboratory. They will only come to a conclusion once they have studied the reports further.

The UP Police had begun exploring a possible organ trade angle four days after grisly details of young children being kidnapped, sexually assaulted and butchered to death in Moninder’s D-5 bungalow in Noida's Sector 31, were unearthed.

The case was handed over to the CBI soon after and the skeletal remains - found in a drain behind Pandher's house - were sent to AIIMS to be examined.

Officials, who had recovered skeletal remains of at least 17 children, had stated then that the torsos of most of the bodies were missing, lending credence to the organ trade theory.

The theory had been further bolstered after the UP Police said that they had recovered surgical implements and knives from Pandher's house.

A senior police officer had even said that the manner in which the bodies were disposed was the same way in which hospitals purged their waste, "showing clinical precision in the entire operation".

The police investigators had also stated that the bodies were neatly stored in packets and probably treated with chemicals to prevent accumulation of bacteria and emission of foul odour.

However, with the discovery of several bundles containing parts of human torsos on January 14, CBI investigators said they believed it was unlikely that Pandher and his man servant Surendra Koli had links to any illegal organ trade business.

On Wednesday, Pandher and Koli faced public ire in the premises of a Ghaziabad court.

The duo were produced by the CBI at the court for an extension of their remand and were being escorted by the police to a lock up nearby, when lawyers and angry locals attacked them.

Moninder, in his fifties, was punched, kicked and pulled by his hair by the enraged crowd, who wanted the duo to be handed over to the public. He fainted after he was beaten up.