Indian child killer suspects undergo "truth" tests
Source: Reuters
GANDHINAGAR, India, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Indian police on Friday began administering a cocktail of drugs and chemicals to act as a sort of truth serum on two men suspected in the rape and killing of at least 17 people, mostly children. The gruesome killings came to light last week after police dug up skulls and bones in the backyard of a house in Noida, an industrial town on the outskirts of the capital, New Delhi. The businessman who owns the house and his servant were arrested after the macabre discovery that had grieving parents spilling into the streets to protest the delay in investigating reports of missing children over the last two years. On Friday, the two suspects were put through a series of narco-analysis, brain mapping and polygraph, or lie detector, tests at a forensic laboratory in Gujarat state. The tests are not admissible as evidence in court, but police say help them better understand a suspect. "We will also examine their behaviour and response to several questions put before them," said J. Vyas, director of the state-run Directorate of Forensic Sciences. The suspected serial killings have horrified the country and sparked a public outcry against police in Uttar Pradesh, where Noida is located. Six policemen have been sacked for failing to act on the parents' reports.
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