Cops look for link between Nithari, Muktsar killings

Kumar Rakesh / TNN / Jan 11, 2007, 00:41 IST

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Unlike Nithari serial killings, the Punjab police remains clueless about the identity of the killers so far.

Cops look for link between Nithari, Muktsar killings

MUKTSAR (PUNJAB): Though police haven't yet drawn any links between Nithari and Muktsar deaths, the investigations so far have primarily focussed on ascertaining whether there is any relation between the two.
Unlike Nithari serial killings, the police remains clueless about the identity of the killers so far. But sources said there may have been more than one killer who lured the children to the rice mill that belonged to Congress leader Jagmeet Brar.
The children have been mutilated beyond recognition in this case as well. Muktsar DSP J S Sandhu said the legs of three victims, barring Ratna, were tied. The bodies had decomposed beyond recognition and had turned blackish; the bones were disjointed.
The similarities with Nithari don't end there. Here too, parents who lost their children were too poor to protest when police refused to act on their missing complaints. "They asked us to go away," wailed Raghbir and Billo, fathers of missing kids Satbir (8) and Ratna (13).

Raghbir, a rickshaw-puller who migrated from Rewari in Haryana to settle in Muktsar, has gone to the local police station on November 12 afternoon, when the four children did not return to their shanties behind Karnail theatre. "I went to SP sahib again on November 20, as local cops did nothing," he said.
The children's photographs did appear in local newspapers, but police now say that they might have been dead by then. Muktsar deputy commissioner Dalip Kumar said the accused "probably sexually assaulted" a girl before she was killed.

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