Update: Cannibalism Charges For The "Butcher of Noida"

Charges of cannibalism in the New Delhi "House of Horrors" child murder case emerged amid reports that the main suspect bribed police to thwart an investigation when parents first came forward.

After being arrested almost a year ago, millionaire Moninder Singh Pandher walked out of the police station the same night, allegedly after paying 250,000 rupees ($7200) , according to the Times of India. "Had it not been for a few greedy police officers in Noida, lives of over a dozen victims could possibly have been saved."

No less sensational were new claims of cannibalism involving Pandher's manservant Surendra Kohli, with reports he had admitted killing many of the children and eating parts of their bodies. "This is probably the reason why torsos of the bodies have not yet been found," the paper said.

The pair are accused of kidnapping and abusing up to 40 children, before strangling them and cutting up their bodies, which were then left in a drain outside his mansion in Noida.

An oven on the terrace of Pandher's house has been checked, and "fragments of hu-man flesh were found in the coal-fired oven," the newspaper said. "Several large cans of acids and chemicals, which could have been used to dissolve the bodies, are also learnt to have been found on the same terrace," it reported.