New Delhi: 58 constituencies across western Uttar Pradesh are voting in the second phase of polling on Friday.
UP is the Jat heartland and a region where BSP leader Mayawati had done well last time.
The focus this time has been on the village of Nithari in Noida which acquired notoriety after several children were brutally assaulted and murdered.
There has been a steady flow of voters in the infamous constituency which did not even figure in the itinerary of many politicians during their campaigns.
However, the large number of migrant labourers don't have a vote in the area and many of those who lost their children in the Nithari serial killings case don't even have voter cards.
Nithari had become a huge issue after Moninder Singh Pandher and his man servant, Surendra Koli had been accused of sexually abusing and murdering a large number of children in the area.
The grisly case has taken many twists and turns since then with allegations like necrophilia, organ trade and cannibalism doing the rounds.
Badly shaken by the ghoulish serial killings, several families living in Nithari village have started fleeing the area.
On February 15, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) jumped into the fray demanding to know why only 19 cases had been registered when media reports stated that at least 38 children were missing from the area.
n the first chargesheet, the CBI had given a clean chit to Pandher, saying he was not aware of the killings that had taken place in his D-5 Sector 30 residence.
The CBI had slapped lesser charges on Pandher that included indulging in prostitution, bribing police and destruction of evidence. The CBI probe concluded that Pandher wasn't in his house when Koli committed the murders, and that he was unaware of the killings.
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