| Yadav said this while visiting Nithari village from where 17 children had been sexually abused and murdered over the course of two years, without the local police investigating a single complaint of disappearance. |
| "Such small incidents keep happening," Yadav said after visiting Nithari village to distribute additional compensation of Rs 3 lakh each to the parents of the victims. |
| The first UP minister to have visited the area since the gruesome killings came to light, he also backed the police, saying they were the ones who unearthed the whole case. |
| "Acting on the directions of the government, the police have worked out the case," he said, just a day after the government suspended two senior police officials and sacked six for negligence in handling the cases. |
| On demands for a CBI probe, Yadav said, "The case has already been unravelled. If it is handed over to the CBI, there will only be a delay." |
| If Yadav gave a clean chit to his brother's government, the Centre came down hard on it, with Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal calling for a CBI inquiry into the incident. "The state police is guilty. If they had investigated the matter earlier, many lives could have been saved," he said while visiting Noida. |
| Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi also added that although the matter had not been discussed during the meeting of the Union Cabinet, Home Minister Shivraj Patil had been keeping a close eye on the matter. He pointed out that by suspending state police officials after the incident, the UP government had prima facie accepted their involvement in the incident. |
| Meanwhile, the two accused in the case "" Moninder Singh Pandher, a businessman, and his servant Surendra Koli, were today taken to Ahmedabad for narco-analysis tests. |
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