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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