The judgment would come more than two years after body parts of 19 children and young women, who had been sexually abused and mutilated, were found from a drain in Noida.
A special CBI court in Ghaziabad wound up proceedings last month in the murder of 14-year-old Rimpa Haldar, who along with the 18 other victims lived in Nithari village near the bungalow of businessman Moninder Singh Pandher. The court is now ready to deliver its verdict.
According to the chargesheet filed by the CBI in May 2007, which took over the case from Noida police two years ago, Halder was allegedly raped and murdered about four years ago by Pandher's domestic help Surender Koli at bungalow number D-5 , Sector 31, Noida. Halder was allegedly strangled and then cut to pieces by Koli with two kitchen knives and an axe. The chargesheet further states that Koli was suffering from necrophilia (urge to have sex with a corpse) and necrophagia (urge to eat the flesh of a body).
Pandher and his help Koli have been in jail since December 2006, when the horrific crime that stunned the nation when its grisly details came to light. The families of the victims are hoping that the duo will be brought to justice. Till then they have to deal with what they say is rank injustice being meted out to them.
'' Our case was that Koli had lured Rimpa Halder inside the bungalow on February 8, 2005, raped and killed her. According to the CBI findings and Koli's voluntary statement before a Delhi metropolitan court in January 2007, he committed the crimes and Pandher, who was in Australia then, was not a party to them,'' CBI counsel J P Sharma submitted in the court. Last August, the court had suo motu summoned Pandher and asked him to depose in the case during which he had claimed he was in Australia when Halder went missing.
Defence counsel Khalid Khan, however, charged the CBI with fabricating documents and shielding Pandher. According to the 16 chargesheets submitted by the CBI, including in the Halder case, Koli was singlehandedly responsible for 16 of the 19 murders (between February 2005 and November 2006) registered by the police. Pandher was away when the 16 cases of rapes and murders by Koli occurred, the chargesheet states.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Nithari-killings-First-verdict-today/articleshow/4115325.cms
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