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NHRC likely to question UP officials

It will also hear cases relating to rights abuse

Lucknow: The National Human Rights Commission(NHRC) is likely to quiz Uttar Pradesh Government officials over the Nithari killings during their three-day session beginning Thursday to hear the cases related to violations of human rights.

Over 1000 cases, several of them pending for the past ten years, will come up for hearing before the NHRC, State Home Department sources said here on Wednesday.

The NHRC team headed by Justice(retd) V. Shivraj Patil would also meet the State Government officials during its stay here, according to sources. The Commission had earlier sent notices to the Chief Secretary and the police chief over alleged sexual abuse and killing of children in Nithari village.

`Koli tried to lure me'

Meanwhile, an eight-year-old Mehnaz screamed as she saw one of the main accused in the Nithari serial killing case, Surinder Koli, on TV recognising him as the person who had lured her with sweets and offered to drop her home.

Mehnaz, a resident of Nithari, was a student of the evening classes run by the nearby Delhi Public School and Koli had once come to pick her up from school saying that her father had asked him to drop her home. The young girl was fortunately saved as her father turned up at the same time and Koli made good his escape. PTI

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