15 skulls of kids found in Noida

NOIDA: Probing the gruesome case of suspected serial killing of several children in Noida, police on Saturday discovered more skeletal remains of children believed to have been sexually abused and murdered.

As many as 15 skulls were found in a dry drain behind the house of a factory owner in Sector 31, police said.

The number of children whose remains were being found could go up as police found some more skeletal remains as they began excavating a drain in front of the house.

Surender alias Satish, a domestic help in the house, who was arrested on Friday, has confessed to having killed six children and a grown-up girl.

His master Mohinder Singh Pandher was also arrested on Friday and police was probing his role in the crime.

Meanwhile, police had to tackle an angry crowd that even indulged in some stone-pelting at the house on Saturday morning, but the situation was soon brought under control.

A large number of onlookers, including parents of missing children, crowded around the house as police carried on with the digging.

Several parents came to the site carrying photographs of their missing children and showed them to the police officials even as they hoped that their worst fears would not come true.

Among them was a family that came from Indirapuram area in nearby Ghaziabad and another from Kalyanpuri in East Delhi, whose children had also gone missing.

As many as 38 children have gone missing from Nithari village in Sector 31 over the past one year.