Two suspected Noida serial killers were brought to Gandhinagar in Gujarat for forensic tests on Friday.
Updated at 7.50 pm
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav on Friday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the Noida serial killings and the Meerut lecturer Kavita Rani murder case.
Noida killers Moninder Singh Pandher and Surendra Koli, arrested for the mass killings of children, landed in Gandhinagar on Friday morning by a Delhi-Ahmedabad flight and were taken to Forensic Science Laboratory campus soon after.
The duo will be subjected in the next 24 hours to narco analysis, lie-detector and other tests at the FSL, which is one of the most well-equipped labs in the country, here.
The duo will be given sodium pentothal injections that will make them semi-conscious so as to ferret out the truth behind their involvement in murdering 30 children at a Noida village whose 17 skeletal remains have been unearthed.
After the tests are over the report could be available in a week, sources said.
The two are expected to undergo these tests at the Directorate of Forensic Science's special operation theatre.
The theatre has a chamber where the proceedings are video-recorded and a glass window separates the room from a waiting room from where the kin or advocate of the accused can watch.
Announcing the decision, he told a press conference that he wanted an independent probe into the killing of children.
He also announced a CBI probe into the murder of a lecturer in the Chaudhry Charan Singh University in Meerut.
Ever since the unearthing of the skeletons and body parts of children, mostly girls, in Nithari last week, the chief minister had come under attack for the state police handling of the whole affair.
There has been a strong demand from major political parties for a CBI inquiry into the killings on the ground that the Noida police had "totally failed" to act on reports of missing persons.
Governor TV Rajeswar, who is not on best terms with the chief minister, wrote to him on Thursday, suggesting that he seek a CBI inquiry because of wider ramifications.
The chief minister had virtually rejected the demand, saying a CBI inquiry would delay matters and that the Noida police were capable of handling it.
In the last two years, nearly 40 cases of children were reported missing in the Nithari village and the area police was accused of callousness in handling the complaints.
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