Major Sohan Singh returned home today from a Noida hospital after a heart procedure. He got admitted to the hospital early this week, a few days after TV channels and newspapers started repeatedly showing two faces known to him as accused in the Noida serial murder case.

Major Singh was the property dealer who helped Moninder Singh Pandher buy D-5, Noida’s house of horror. He was also the one who recommended co-accused and cook Surendra to Pandher. But more shocking to Major Singh must be the fact that Surendra lived in his own house as a domestic help for over a year till 1998.

Major Singh said: “We never suspected him and would have never let him be around as there were our own kids in the house. He seemed harmless but then he went missing for a few years.”

Singh said Surendra had a relative in Noida’s Sector 39 in Noida who might know where he had been all those missing years. He returned one day and told Singh that he wanted a job. That was around the same time Singh had helped Pandher find a house. Pandher was looking for a domestic help so Singh referred Surendra to him.

Before moving in to Noida, Pandher was living in Ghaziabad. He responded to a newspaper advertisement that the property dealer had issued and approached him for a space for a workshop.

Major Singh first came in contact with Surendra through a milkman who used to know Brigadier Wadhwa at whose house he worked.

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