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A Study On 2006 Noida Serial Murder: Nithari Hatyakand With Special Reference To The Psychology Of The Accused

Crime is kind of behavior that make harm another individual or community and also person commits to break laws, rules, or norms in society, they will get punishment if they commit crime.

Nithari Hatyakand or Noida Serial Murder Case 2006 was a series of murders which took place in Nithari Village, Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The killings took place near the residence of Moninder Singh Pandher a businessman and one of the accused and Surinder Koli his house servant, another accused. These serial killings that took place sent a wave of shock throughout India.

The act of Koli is ascertained to label him as a Criminal Psychopath because what he was doing consistent with the definition of a Psychopath. Koli's action nor his behavior purposeful victimization with more than 16 people. Thus, his action had been done approximately for 2 years with no one know, that is means what he did was continually, this is also compatible with another definition of Psychopath.

Psychopathy is defined as a mental (antisocial) disorder in which an individual manifests amoral and antisocial behavior, shows a lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, expresses extreme egocentricity, and demonstrates a failure to learn from experience and other behaviours associated with the condition.

This paper introduces the concept of crime in the beginning, antisocial behaviour, and antisocial personality disorder. This paper also narrates the tragic story of Nithari Hatyakand, the meaning and nature of serial crime. The serial killings that took place were committed were that of children between the age of 5-15. The victims, numbers, mode and intention of the murders made the news of this crime spread like a wildfire. The accused during their investigation reviled many things, a lot of Psychometric testing was done to the accused by psychiatrists, which reviled the accused to be a psychopath.

The research work is based on the data collected by the secondary sources such as books, article, newspapers, journals, etc. The collection of data has been analysed through suitable techniques at different places.

Introduction
Crime is kind of behavior that make harm another individual or community and also person commits to break laws, rules, or norms in society, they will get punishment if they commit crime. In their life almost every people ever break some of rules even just did once time. This can be offered as criminal behavior but not all of person who has broken the rule has definition as a criminal. The meaning who is criminal became blurry if someone can be a criminal today but not tomorrow for the same behavior.

Discussing about crime is often related with Anti-Social Behavior (ASB), it refers to act violate norms and rights another people. Individuals who persistently behave antisocially may be assessed as having an antisocial personality disorder (APD).[1] Person with APD can be referred as term of psychopath, although this is still bringing up some debates between two because they are not equivalent. They emphasized not all of APD or psychopathic person is a criminal. Psychopathic tendencies can lead into success in the corner offices in some way.[2]

We shall not realize with the existence of psychopath around us. They can mimic likely normal people so we will not recognize them, the primary characteristic of psychopath is inability to feel normal emotion.[3] In most of case of psychopath, individual commits crime without feeling satisfaction.

The Noida Serial Murders was a series of serial murders committed by Moninder Singh a businessman, and Surinder Koli his house servant in their village. The murderer duo resided in Bungalow Number D-5, Sector-31, Nithari, Noida, Uttar Pradesh[4]. The murders dates back to 2003 when abnormally high number of children were reported to be missing from Nithari Village. The observation and reports of numerous missing children were observed even in 2004 and 2005. Towards the end of 2006, the accuse of these murders was identified Surinder Koli and Moninder Singh. In the official investigation and searches conducted by the authorities, the pattern, timeline, motives, and the way of these serial murders was discovered, seeing which Surinder Koli could be identified as a Psychopath.

Nithari Hatyakand: Chronology

House of horror being one of many serial killers appears in the world caused 16 people being kills. This is being strange case because no one ever knows include the owner of the house, that his domestic assistance, Surender Koli was doing infamous crime. The background is started on 2003, which was an abnormally high number children were reported missing from Nithari village in Noida district. The phenomenon of missing children was in line with arrival Surender Koli in Moninder Pandher's home at D-5, Noida. Some parents who lost their children had reported to the police, but they did not notice by the local police.

Then in 2005, 14 years old Rimpa Haldar had gone missing on 8 February.[5] Her parents had tried to register the case with the police, but their effort was unsuccessful. Next month some boys was playing cricket, found a hand on plastic bag in open area behind D-5 home. They called the police, who after seeing the hand advised them to forget about it, and no action was taken. The next year, 20 years old girl named Payal went missing on May 7, that was increased assumption if Koli connected with missing of this girl and another people.

Finally missing of the children was reported on High Court, the police were directed to investigate. They did investigation in Moninder Pandher's home based on reported local residents that have felt distrustful with Koli's presence on D-5 home. In this phase Surender Koli suspected as the actor behind missing of the people recent years. Police claimed that it was through Koli that they discovered the large number of skulls and bones in the open space at the back of D-5, and in the drain running on the main road in front of the bungalows. Thus, Koli was arrested on 29 December 2006.[6]

In January 2007 the case was transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) who took Koli's custody thereafter.[7] Investigation had been transferred because local policy failed in their duty to respond to complaints over the past two years. First investigations by CBI team visits Nithari to initiate probe in the case. 30 more bones found near the house. The court process taken until three years to give Surender Koli death sentence as the case was classified as 'rarest of rare'.

To be truth the victims of Koli's murderer increasing with passage time. On his last confession, Koli gave a detailed of how exactly a total of 16 victims (9 female children, 2 male children and 5 adult women) into the house, killed and attempted to have sex with the inert bodies, chopped and eat their body parts, and then threw the remains at the back of the house and in the drain on the main road. It was also reported Koli's way to lured children victims invite to the house by offering them sweets and chocolate .[8]

So how was Koli doing his action since it is not his home, he just domestic full time servant of Pandher and his wife. Inside D-5 home there are another servant and Pandher's wife but they did not notice strange activities inside home. The wife of Pandher often travelled to Chandigarh, and Pandher would be at work almost during a day.

After each killing, Koli would strip the clothes of his victim and carry the body upstairs to a bathroom where he would proceed to chop it into small parts. Then he would leave the bathroom in that condition while he cooked and ate some of the body parts. After 3-4 hours when he would regain his composure, only then would he clean up the drawing room and bathroom.[9] In the investigation, CBI did not find clear motives why he did this criminality.

In the one of investigations, he committed to eat human organs in the belief that cannibalism cured impotency, but in another place his wife said that Koli did not have any impotency. Koli said that he committed to killing a call girl for refusing to have sex with him, and has sex with the corpse to prevent being rejected. His desire to having sex can also emerge because Pandher often called girls into his home. Hence some observers view Koli describe as really shrewd and cunning person, because he could covered his crime perfectly.

Psychopath

Psychopathy is defined as a mental (antisocial) disorder in which an individual manifests amoral and antisocial behavior, shows a lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, expresses extreme egocentricity, and demonstrates a failure to learn from experience and other behaviours associated with the condition.[10] Psychopathy, sometimes considered synonymous with sociopathy, is characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse. Psychopath has inclined to do a crime more than normal people. They are 15 to 25 percentages more likely to commit crimes that land them in prison than non-psychopath.[11]

Here this is happen in Koli, he committed crime like that because he is psychopath. Prominent characteristic of psychopath not only lack emotions of conscience and empathy, but research has shown that these individuals consistently display certain aspects of temperament which include lack of fear, lack of inhibition and a stimulus seeking behavior.[12] Psychopathy was defined as a disorder characterized by : lack of remorse or empathy, hollow emotions, manipulativeness, lying, egocentricity, glibness, low frustration tolerance, episodic relationships, parasitic lifestyle, the persistent violation of social norms, need for stimulation and criminal versatility, etc.

There are many characteristics psychopath on Koli's behavior, First of all psychopaths doing crime in a long time periods. Here we can see, Koli doing such an infamous crime for almost two years. It is started on 2004 since he came at Noida district until 2006. The killing habits did stop because police has investigated about missing children and person and suspected Koli behinds it all. Someone who does not recognize as psychopath will not do such a crime for long a long time the persistent violation of social norms, because normal people are going to feel guilty and afraid as well. The number of victims also showed propensity as psychopath.

Second is calm city appearance when Koli arrested, along investigation even when he knows he is going to get death penalty. Based info that I have read, Koli may ask about is it hanging will be painful. Normal people will not ask kind of that question, because we have already known it is cause pain so much. Devianni as the producer documentary film making met with Koli told if he was very relax when doing interview. "Our conversations were very laid back and casual. He talked a lot about his family, his wife and two children." Said Devianni.[13] More over police said during interrogation Koli hardly ever showed any remorse. All above explanation are showing hollow emotions and also lack remorse of Koli.

Manipulative, lying egocentric is being the most stand out controversy of Koli behavior. Yes he is manipulative and very sly since he can covered infamous crime for two years without anybody know about his activities. Besides, he never denied committing any of the crimes, he always tried to put the blame on someone else. A doctor in their neighborhood was involved in an organ scam so Koli suggested that he may have been behind the killings.[14] His boss, Pandher Monindher also being his scapegoat, he said if Pandher helped Koli to killed some victims but it is not true because Pandher was not at home when Koli commit his crime. Another untruth is he committed to eat human organs in the belief that cannibalism cured impotency, but in another place his wife said that Koli did not have any impotency. He just tried to be innocent so another will not prejudice at Koli.

Versatility indeed visible on him, all it is mentioned above being the fact oh his smartness. Devineni describes Koli as "really shrewd and cunning, one of the smartest people I have ever met. He's had little education, knows no English, but he does his own research. On his own, he has learnt India's complex legal system and how to stay on top of it."[15] The way koli killed his victims, how was he cut the bones perfectly, he also made use of bad smell of drain to covered decayed remains so no one will suspicious. The time doing execution also estimated by him, it was being structural serial killers.

What Surender Koli did to the corpses of his victim is necrophilia. Based on "The Mask of Sanity" book claimed if real psychopath sexuality is abnormal. Masochism, sadism, bestiality, fetishism, necrophilia, voyeurism kind be form abnormal sexuality of psychopath. Most psychopaths known to me have shown little compunction about seeking sexual gratification.[16] So to achieve his gratification, Koli doing extreme way to had sex with the corpse. Another distinction of normal behavior is cannibalism that has been done by Koli.

The accused was brought to the Directorate of Forensic Sciences, Gandhinagar city for undergoing a series of medical tests. Brain mapping and polygraph tests were conducted on January 4, 2007 and narcoanalysis five days later.[17] The police director told the scribes that both the accused had been cooperative during the tests and examinations. Unfortunately, the directorate officials did not make any revelations to the public media.

After the identification of Koli's behavior, currently we know that he has abnormality in his ganglion (central nerves) and also disorder of frontal lobes. Abnormality with the ganglion especially with emotional systems made Koli does not have ability to feel emotional feelings, such as empathy, guilty, anxious under pressure. That is the prominent traits of distortion on ganglion. Koli did not shows any guilty cause of 16-person death, instead he is still has desire to kill someone. Surender Koli after arrest said, "I still have an urge to kill".[18]

Then dysfunctional on frontal lobes show Koli cannot control response of his frustration and agitation. Survey said if cold blood killer commits such an infamous crime or serial killers has a little activity on their locus frontal than person who commit to killing someone one because of their furiousness.[19] Thus, the abnormality on lobus frontal maybe ensue because of brain damaging, for examples physical accidents, physical neglect, beating, injuries.

So, it concludes Surender Koli committed crime because he is a psychopath, he is totally known what he was doing so there was something wrong with his brain, neurological system precisely. Here nature become the major factor he did such an infamous crime, all above explanation told us he has different biological, neurological, as a psychopath

Conclusion
The act of Koli is ascertained as a crime because what he was doing consistent with the definition of crime. Koli's action nor his behavior purposeful victimization with more than 16 people. We should say it is crime or not from the intensity break the law. Thus, his action had been done approximately for 2 years with no one know, that is means what he did was continually, this is also compatible with another definition of crime. Indeed, because his behavior he get death punishment from India judicial. Murdering, then did cannibalism even he was doing sex with corpse are very abnormal person behavior. Later he identified as a psychopath, Koli has something wrong with his brain.

A psychopath can be analyzed by psychological assessment and also brain scanned. Although there is no evidence of his brain scanned, because it is not permitted by the police for public consumption, this paper has analyzed his behavior that direct into psychopathic behavior.

For instance, psychopath traits about his intelligence and shrewdness covered his criminality on Monindher Pandher's home over 2 years, mimic he is like an innocent and so on. After we know if he is a psychopath, now we can say the prominent factor he committed infamous crime from his nature as well. Psychopaths closely related with brain damaging, People find his behavior correlated with abnormal ganglion (central nerves) and also disorder of frontal lobes so as produce behavior that make Koli committed such a crime.

After Surinder Koli did to his victims, it makes people terrified of psychopath's behavior. It is emphasized not all of psychopath commit crimes, vice versa. We could prevent psychopath for committing such an infamous crime, from earlier. Consciousness of people around us will make criminality because of psychopathic decrease. Last, we must spread loves of people surround us because love is believed effective prevent crimes and heal either someone is a psychopath or not.

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