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Indian Businessman suspected of raping and murdering 15 women

A tragedy in India, an Indian businessman and his servant murdered 10 young girls and 5 women, after raping them. The two were arrested after the police found 15 sculls and a number of bones in the garden of the businessman`s home in the town Noida, east of New Deli. The police released that the women and girls were murdered in the past two years.

Rathore, Noida police chief, said Mohinder Singh Pandher, the businessman who owned the house, and his servant, Satish, had confessed to sexually abusing and killing at least 10 children and five women. Rathore said that the two seduced the girls by promising them chocolate, and the women were promised a job. After they entered the house the two sexually abused them and then murdered them, burying the bodies in the backyard or throwing them into a pit. The policeman, who searched the place discovered plastic bags containing human bone and cloths and jewelry adorned by the murdered women. After these were discovered, the police began to suspect that more women were murdered by the two, since the past few years have seen 38 girls gone missing in the area. The police reached the two culprits by tracking the cellular signal from one of the victim`s cellular phone, upon arriving at the scene a strong scent caused further suspicion.

The local inhabitants are angry with the local authorities for not solving the crimes earlier, although the police had been contacted and the murderers were pointed out as possible suspects by the locals. The two were brought to a local court were the judge ruled to leave them in custody for another two days.