5 chilling details about the murders depicted in Netflix's Sector 36

Netflix added Bollywood crime thriller Sector 36 to its library on September 13, 2024. The film is loosely inspired by the Nithari killings which took place in Noida, India near a village named Nithari, between 2005-2006.

The official synopsis of Sector 36 as per Rotten Tomatoes reads as follows:

"When several children disappear at the hands of a serial killer in Sector 36, a corrupt cop is forced to pursue the chilling case at all costs."

Several women and children died in the Nithari slaughter, and there were claims of r*pe, cannibalism, murder, and even necrophilia. Later, in 2006, the dismembered bodies of the victims were found in a gutter close to a Nithari home where the authorities assumed the murders had occurred.

Reportedly, Moninder Singh Pandher, a Noida resident was found guilty in 2022 of immoral trafficking and his servant Surinder Koli was charged with murder, r*pe, evidence destruction, and even abduction. Koli received multiple life sentences and as per prison records is currently serving time in a prison in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Pandher on the other hand was released from jail in October 2023, after all the charges against him were dropped, citing lack of evidence.

Disclaimer: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence, readers discretion is advised.

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5 terrifying details regarding violence, corruption, and bloodshed portrayed in Sector 36 on Netflix

1) Tumpa's body was severed by Prem Singh after her death

Sector 36 opens with Tumpa, a fourteen-year-old girl, going missing while returning from school. Her lifeless body is later seen stored in Prem Singh's restroom, as depicted in the movie. Later, Prem Singh, the murderer, dismembers her body piece by piece and dumps her down the drain outside his home.

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2) The police did not file an FIR

A still from Sector 36 (Image by Netflix)

As shown in Sector 36, Tumpa's father goes to the police to report her missing and file an FIR. But instead of filing a formal complaint, the police ignored her father, giving Tumpa's father some cash and assuring him that his daughter will eventually come home.

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3) Prem Singh abducted and killed Ali

A still of Prem Singh (Image by Netflix)

Prem Singh abducted Ali, a 14-year-old, while the boy was retrieving a ball that had fallen into the gutter while playing cricket with his pals earlier in the day. He discovered the severed skeletal remains of a hand while retrieving the ball from the drain. When the police were later notified of the same, they dismissed it as the hand of a monkey and carried out no further investigation. Prem Singh abducted Ali later that day in the evening and killed him.

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4) Prem Singh proudly admitted to the murders

A still from Sector 36 (Image by Netflix)

As shown in the film, when the alleged killer Prem Singh was interrogated by Inspector Ram Charan Pandey about the disappearance of Chumki Ghosh, he did not want to talk to the police. Instead, he told them that he would like to go home and watch the popular show Indian show KBC.

But later, when he was questioned about the location of Chumki Ghosh, a missing girl, he icily disclosed to the authorities how he had r*ped her, then killed her by strangling her with her own hands, then cut her body, and disposed of it. The murderer expressed no regret in his confession and referred to his method of killing and getting rid of the body as creative.

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5) Prem Singh consumed human meat

As revealed in Sector 36, Prem Singh confessed to the murder of numerous boys and girls before selling their organs to a compounder. In the movie, he also confessed to killing his uncle as a child and then consuming his meat. At that point, he began to develop a taste for human flesh.

Regarding the remaining children who vanished (around 22–24), he killed them first, occasionally feasted on their flesh, sold their organs, and dismembered and disposed of the remaining body parts.

Some of the mortal remains of the people missing that were buried at Mr Bassi, his employer's residence were later found. The police also recovered some of the dead body parts from the sewer outside Bassi’s house.

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Sector 36 is now streaming on Netflix.