Nithari killings of children write a diary
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The Nithari killings never evoked the mass outrage that the murders of Jessica Lal, Nitish Katara and Priyadarshini Mattoo did. All the children and other victims came from underprivileged families who had migrated to Noida in search for better livelihoods.
On February 8, four people turned up to mourn the death of 14-year-old Rimpa Haldhar at the hands of Koli eight years ago. They were kin of other victims, and they gathered at the roadside ironing stall of Jhabbu Lal, whose 10-year-old daughter Jyoti was also murdered. A few weeks earlier on December 29, not more than 10 people, victims’ families and activists, turned up at Lal’s shop in an informal memorial for victims of the Nithari serial killings. This was when the country was busy protesting the death of the Delhi gang-rape victim.
The Nithari killings never evoked the mass outrage that the murders of Jessica Lal, Nitish Katara and Priyadarshini Mattoo did. At a candle light vigil organised for Nithari victims on January 19, 2007, the only one ever organised anywhere for them, not more than 100 people turned up.
All the children and other victims of the Nithari killings came from underprivileged families who had migrated to Noida in search for better livelihoods and lived in the urban villages that exist amid the concrete jungles of the cities.