Skeletons in the Drain and other Cupboards

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Along with the skeletal remains of the mutilated children and young women from the backyard drain of an expansive bungalow in Noida, tumbled out a sackful of disturbing questions, which should haunt us as much as they must be the screaming mothers of Nithari village. For the larger part of the bygone year, a debauch millionaire industrialist and his man servant were spending several of their evenings taking turns to rape young children and women, whom they would later strangulate, chop to pieces, soak in a drum of acid, stuff in a gunny bag and dump in the backyard gutter. Scores of panicky parents in Nithari---rickshaw pullers, washermen, roadside tea vendors, drivers, maids, factory workers-spent the larger part of the last year in fear and despair. They made umpteen futile rounds of the local police station to file a report about their missing children. ....