Moninder Singh Pandher

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Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic servant, Subhash Kohli (alias Surendra) are the prime accused in the Noida serial killing of around twenty people, mostly children, from Nithari village in Sector 31 of Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.

In a media report, Surendra has confessed to the kidnap, rape and murder of least eight children, however, reports indicate that more than twenty children are missing and might be victims also. Partial skeletal remains of 4 women and 15 children have been unearthed around the house of Moninder Singh and the search for more remains is currently underway. Almost all the murdered children whose skeletons were found dumped in a drain behind house number D-5 in Noida’s Sector 31.Organ trade is looked upon by CBI which took the probe from NOIDA police.

Apparently, Moninder is an industrialist who studied from 1963-73 at the prestigious Bishop Cotton School in Shimla and graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi.

Pandher had inherited a successful family transport business. Moninder Singh Pandher had a disturbed childhood, according to people who knew him. He began drinking heavily later in life. While his estranged wife and son live in Chandigarh, he himself mostly lived in the house he owned in Noida.

His arrest and subsequent confession to serial rape and murder [1] has thrown sharp focus on the law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh and has sparked significant outrage and controversy. Also it has been alleged by some leading news channels, that Surendra is a cannibal, who killed young children and their body organs to treat himself, as he is stated to be impotent.

Punjab's Pandher community, concentrated in 32 villages, has decided to excommunicate Moninder Singh Pandher. The announcement of social boycott of the Noida businessman was made at a meeting of community members at at village Ravsiana in this district on Sunday Jan 7, 2007, Pandher Association spokesman said on Monday January 8, 2007 to the press.

He said the meeting chaired by its president Jaswinder Singh unanimously adopted a resolution to excommunicate Moninder Singh Pandher alias Goldi. "We hold him guilty of maligning the reputation of the Pandher community," the resolution said.