Death toll could reach 40 in India serial murder

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THE DEATH toll in a serial murder case that has shocked India may top 40 after detectives found over a dozen more skulls stashed in plastic bags, a report said today.

‘In the 40 bags, we have found more than a dozen skulls,’ an unnamed senior official of the federal Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told a leading newspaper.

The CBI declined to confirm the figures officially, but said in a statement that ‘biomaterials’ in more than 40 polythene bags were recovered from the drain in front of the house of the two men accused of the lurid crimes.

The new finds have been made in the past three days around a bungalow that the media has dubbed the ‘House of Horrors’, where the main suspects - affluent businessman Moninder Singh Pander and servant Surender Koli - lived.

Local police were earlier investigating if the murders had been committed so that organs such as kidneys could be sold off, as the torsos of the victims appeared to be missing.

According to the media, the plastic bags contained torsos as well. The CBI, however, did not say whether it would continue probing the organs trade angle.



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This case has only recently broken open, Pander was arrested a couple of years ago but paid a bribe and walked free.