NEW DELHI, March 1 (UPI) -- One of the men charged with killing at least 19 people, most of them children, in India made a videotaped confession Thursday, The Hindu reported.
Surendra Koli admitted sexually assaulting and killing the children, the newspaper said.
Koli was employed by Moninder Singh Pandher, a businessman who is also charged in the slayings. The bones of the victims were found in Pandher's bungalow in Noida, an industrial suburb of New Delhi.
The confession is to be sealed until the case comes to trial, The Hindu said.
Koli told Magistrate Kamini Lau Wednesday that he wanted to confess and the magistrate gave him 24 hours to consider his decision.
The case has aroused anger in Noida with bereaved parents saying that police refused to investigate reports of missing children. Two lawyers appointed to represent the defendants quit saying their lives had been threatened.
