Surender Koli AP PHOTO

The charges were the first in the serial killings of 19 people in a posh New Delhi suburb. Nearly all of the victims were poor.

India's federal Central Bureau of Investigation was called in to take over the case, and March 22 the agency said Surender Koli had been charged with raping and strangling a prostitute.

The prostitute's body parts were among the remains of 19 people, most of them children, found in a drain next to a house owned by Moninder Singh Pandher, Koli's employer.

The Japan Times Weekly: March 31, 2007
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