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 Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:58 am Post subject: The Horror of Nithari |
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No place for poor in India
BBC News
Friday, 12 January 2007
 Sanjeev Srivastava, India editor of the BBC's Hindi service, wonders about the reaction in India to a horrendous serial killing case.
As the rich and the well-heeled made preparations to ring in 2007 in style across a new, shining India, a sleepy, poor housing area - Nithari - almost ruined their party.
Almost.
An initial wave of revulsion swept through the country after details of the mass killings in Nithari village of Noida - a suburb of the Indian capital, Delhi - unfolded like one grotesque sequence after another of a horror film.
But after a while, most Indians came to see the killings as simply a gory crime committed by one or more sick individuals.
In the end, most parties and festivities went ahead as planned.
But surely Nithari should have evoked a different response. Why?
Is it because at least 17 young women and children were killed over a period of one and a half years in this village, no more than 18 miles (30kms) from the capital Delhi and right next to one of modern India's most prosperous and upcoming districts, Noida?
Or because the police took so long to crack the case?
Or because they still really have no clue about the motive of this ghastly crime which came to light after the remains of some of the victims were found in a sewer?
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