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It was an appalling serial killings in India, where wealthy local businessman Penderher and servant Curry were accused of abducting, raping and killing 19 people over a two-year period. Most horrificly, during the interrogation, Curry confessed to cannibalism, and the internal organs of several victims were taken to be cooked and eaten by him.
Shockingly, however, the wealthy merchant Penderher was eventually acquitted, while his servant Curry was only sentenced to life in prison. There is still a dispute in this case, who is the mastermind of the master and servant, and is Pandheel really irrelevant to this matter? Is Curry a perverted murderer or a ghost for the dead?
Left Curry, right Pendher
01
Drainage ditch corpse stinks
Noida is one of four satellite cities built around India's capital, New Delhi.
It belongs to Uttar Pradesh, geographically located 20 kilometers east of New Delhi, and is closely linked to New Delhi, which is a very important industrial trade development city in India, where many multinational companies have branches or offices.
Nisari is a densely populated village on the outskirts of Noida where two worlds coexist: the carefree middle class or the wealthier merchants, and the poor inferiors who serve them.
On December 29, 2006, the back door of the village's D5 mansion was crowded with black-pressed people, most of whom were villagers living nearby, poor and inferior.
At this point, they were all united, and a few men rolled up their sleeves and trouser legs, searching for something in the stinking gutters.
As the bones and various clothes, shoes and socks were dug out, everyone's emotions became more and more excited. Someone in the crowd recognized part of the clothing, and the crying grew louder and louder.
The police officers who came to investigate were also dumbfounded, they had never seen such a tragic scene, and villagers dug up the dismembered remains and clothing of 19 victims in the gutters, all of whom had disappeared in the past two years.
Forensic evaluation confirmed that 4 of the 19 victims were adult women and 15 were minors.
What did they go through and why were they thrown into this drainage ditch?
The answer lies in the mansion next to it.
02
Mansion secrets
House D5 is "famous" in the village, and the owner of the mansion is named Mondel Penderher Singh (hereinafter referred to as Pandhell), who lives in this two-storey villa with his wife and children.
For business reasons, Pandheel did not have much time at home, he spent most of his time abroad, he did a lot of business, and invested in Australia, Canada, the United States, and China.
But as long as Pandhell is at home, he will sing in the mansion night and night. He would invite his friends here for a party and offer them additional "perks": fine wine and beautiful women, most of whom were call girls from the Red Light District.
Pendher is quite generous and considerate, he will also take care of the servants of the family, Surind Curry (hereinafter referred to as Curry), who works alone outside the home, and occasionally Pandher will arrange a beautiful woman for Curry to accompany.
But because of his humble origins, even prostitutes can't look up to Curry, which greatly stimulates Curry's self-esteem.
Left Curry, right Pendher
Curry's home is in a very remote village 450 kilometers away, where there are large mountain forests, there are no modern things such as internet and television in the village, only the simplest living facilities, and even tigers and leopards often run to the village to hurt people.
At the age of 13, Curry walked out of the village and took a train to New Delhi to find a job, his introverted personality was not good at words, and finally he was favored by Pandhell and came to the D5 mansion as a servant, cleaning, washing and cooking.
In this mansion, Curry is eye-opening, his master Penderher lives a desolate life, rich and powerful, and all kinds of beautiful women to give hugs, Curry's thinking is increasingly influenced by it, he also longs for wealth and beauty.
However, the hierarchy in India is very cruel, and Curry, who is from an inferior background, will never have the opportunity to turn over, which invisibly distorts Curry's mind and soul, making him extremely contradictory:
He played the role of a faithful servant on the one hand, and on the other, he was eager to become in control of everything like his master, Penderher. This honest man, who was introverted and not good at words, finally extended his hand to the innocent children.
03
Missing people
Since 2005, girls have disappeared every month or two near the D5 mansion.
The Lal family, who run a laundromat in the village, and their 10-year-old daughter, Joti lal, one day helped the family deliver the clothes of the guests, and never returned, and she delivered the things across the street from the D5 mansion.
Joti's father, Gabu Lal, went to the police to report the crime, and the police saw that he was inferior and rushed to send him away.
Gabu Lal had to go door-to-door on his own, saying he had been looking for his daughter for a year and seven months until the villagers dug up the skeletons of multiple children in the drainage ditch of the D5 compound.
Gabu Lal was distraught that he went to The D5 mansion no less than 10 times while looking for his daughter, and curry was there every time.
Gabri Lal even said to Curry: "If you see her (referring to Joti), tell me and I will give you Rs 50,000 and promise not to leak it is what you said".
Curry promised, "Okay, I'll go find it." ”
Who knew that Joti had already been poisoned by him, and her bones were still in the drainage ditch at the back door of the mansion.
Before Joti disappeared, two or three girls had gone missing, living in the same alley, and the last place where the children showed up was near the D5 mansion. However, when the victim's family went to report the crime, it failed to attract the attention of the police.
Gabe thought his daughter, Joti, might have been abducted for prostitution and might find her one day.
By May 2006, 10 children had gone missing in the same area, but the police still didn't pay attention, saying it was not worth the fuss that so many people went missing every day in India.
A boy named Rajesh had to call a local reporter in search of his missing sister.
He told reporters that his sister had disappeared near the D5 mansion, but the police said that she may have eloped with someone, and he hoped that the matter would be reported, and perhaps it would attract the attention of the police. However, he was wrong, and the police did not even express their position.
Until the end of 2006, because more and more children were missing, the families gathered to ask the Residents Welfare Association for help. After learning about the situation, Misra, then president of the association, led two villagers to the drainage ditch at the back door of the D5 mansion.
04
House of Horror
The smell behind the D5 mansion has been reported many times by villagers, but no one has dealt with it.
Misra and the two villagers soon found a rotten hand in the dirty and smelly ditch, shocking the whole village, and the local villagers poured in to help, and then they found various broken limbs and arms inside.
After receiving the report this time, the local police finally realized the seriousness of the problem and immediately mobilized police forces and forensic doctors to the scene to check, which was also unforgettable for them.
It is no exaggeration to say that this is the first time they have seen so many bones, and it is estimated that it is also the last time they have seen it in their lives.
All of the victims were dismembered, none of the remains were intact, some of the limbs were already decomposed, some were not yet fully decomposed, and the police dug up several woven bags, some containing skulls and dismembered limbs, and some containing internal organs.
In addition, people also rummaged through many shoes, clothes and other items in the gutters.
Someone in the crowd recognized it as the thing of their family's missing children, and several mothers were crying and fainting. Emotional villagers threw stones at the mansion and cursed the mansion's owner, Penderher, and the villagers and the police almost all determined that the killer was him.
However, in the course of the investigation, the police found that pandher was not in India at the time of the disappearance of many victims. So the police believe that Penderhill is an accomplice, and his servant Curry may be the perpetrator of this series of crimes.
However, the police once could not figure out the motive of the case, why did a rich man with a lot of money kill so many people? They initially suspected That Pandhell was trafficking in organs, but the investigation found nothing.
Pendher insisted he had been away from home for years and had no idea what was going on with the bones in the sewers.
Soon, his servant Curry confessed, and he killed them.
The bags were full of corpses
05
Psychological distortion
During the interrogation of Curry, the police used a slacker on Curry, and he confessed everything, and the words that came out of his mouth stunned the interrogators present:
Curry said: "There was a girl in District 30 named Dipole who walked through the house and I called her into the house and strangled her with her headscarf, and when she was unconscious, I tried to have sex with her but it didn't work out, so I killed her. I wanted to eat her, so I took her body upstairs into the bathroom, and I took a knife from the kitchen and cut her body into pieces, and I boiled one of her arms and breasts and ate it. ”
According to Curry, he tricked the victims into the D5 mansion with sweets and chocolates, and the reason why they trusted Curry and were willing to go with him was because Curry had a good impression of the neighborhood on weekdays.
Even the police said Curry looked simple and humble, not at all like a perverted serial killer.
After tricking the victims into the house, Curry strangled them with their headscarves before moving them upstairs to his own room for sexual assault. When there is no one in the house, the body is cut and discarded in the gutter at the back door late at night.
When the police searched the room in the library, they detected a large amount of blood on the floor and wall, consistent with his confession.
In addition, Curry also explained that the reason why he was able to cut corpses so skillfully was because he followed his father, who was a butcher, to cut the corpses of animals when he was a child, so in his eyes, the dead (referring to the victims) were like animals.
The most terrible thing was that he also ate them.
However, in daily life, because of faith, Curry actually eats vegetarian food.
Therefore, psychologists deduce that Curry, who grew up eating vegetarian food, was actually full of desire for meat when he worked with his father as a butcher, but he had to restrain himself because of his faith, which eventually led to psychological distortion and became an ogre.
According to Curry's confession, he killed a total of 19 people in two years, but according to local media reports, the number of missing people in the area far exceeded this number, and the police eventually determined that the number of victims was 19 based on the bones exhumed from the gutter.
And the police firmly believe that the owner of the mansion, Pendher, is also one of the suspects.
On February 13, 2009, both Pendher and Curry were sentenced to death, but seven months later, the High Court of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh acquitted Pendher and released him because of insufficient evidence.
By 2015, Curry had also changed from the death penalty to life imprisonment.
Some family members have received compensation of 1.2 million rupees (about 100,000 yuan), and some family members are still insisting on fighting the lawsuit to seek justice for their loved ones, but their road is extremely difficult.
Because Pandhell had close dealings with many officials, he was not only able to exonerate himself completely, but also changed the sentence of the servant Curry to life imprisonment. From this, it has also been inferred that Pandhell is an accomplice or even a mastermind, otherwise why would he help his servant fight a lawsuit?
And even the police officers handling the case thought that Pandhell could not get away with it. His servant Curry had killed 19 people in that mansion and dumped the bodies in the gutters behind the mansion, where the stench could be smelled by nearby residents, and would a shrewd merchant as Pandhell have not been aware of or suspected?