Moninder Pandher Bares All On 19-Year Mystery, No One Killed the Children at Nithari?
New Delhi : For months, between 2005 and 2006, Noida’s Nithari, barely an hour away from Delhi, saw several women and children vanishing one after another. A probe revealed a macabre tale involving skeletal remains in drains and allegations of rape, murder and necrophilia. Pandher, a businessman, saw his life turn topsy-turvy after he was arrested and spent nearly 17 years in jail after being acquitted in all cases against him in 2023.
Pandher, who was labelled as co-accused, claimed that media frenzy, public pressure and lapses by the investigative agencies derailed the probe into one of the country’s most chilling serial-killing episodes. The incident has been captured in a film ‘Sector 36’, starring Vikrant Massey. Who is responsible then? Is the police responsible? Am I responsible? Is someone else responsible? Many people are responsible. If the investigation had been proper, the truth would have come out, Pandher said.
Between 2005 and 2006, several children, mostly young girls, went missing from Nithari. Their skeletal remains were later recovered from a drain behind Pandher’s house, D-5. Pandher claimed stories of missing children surfaced only after the case broke in 2006. Pandher also claimed that he stayed at the Nithari residence only a couple of days a week because of his business. He claimed that even months before the case was exposed, a police picket was stationed outside his house.
During the investigation, a sub-inspector even requested to station policemen in my garage because they had learn that children were going missing in the area, Pandher said. But the police personnel deployed were aged… which I blame on the police administration,” he further said. Pandher also emphasised that he never noticed anything suspicious about Surendra Koli, who was convicted as the primary accused. He walked out of jail last week after being acquitted by the Supreme Court in the 13th case related to the killings.
I found him a very good man. If he wasn’t, I wouldn’t have kept him, Pandher put it bluntly. However, he admitted that escorts visited his home but denied holding frequent parties as was portrayed in the media. Some of the girls were friendly with me. Paid sex was never the issue. They liked the house because it was peaceful, and they could relax, drink, and dance. Sometimes, even their husbands accompanied them, Pandher said.
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