Two convicted for Nithari serial killings
PTI
GHAZIABAD (UP), FEB 12
Punjabi businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his servant Surinder Koli, both accused in the Nithari serial killings, were pronounced guilty today of murder and rape of a 14-year-old girl, leaving the CBI red faced as it had given a cleat chit to the entrepreneur.
Pandher (55) and Koli (38), who have been in judicial custody since January 2007, were produced in the jam-packed court of Rama Jain, Special CBI Judge, who pronounced the duo guilty of murder, rape, criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence.
The quantum of punishment would be pronounced tomorrow, the judge said after delivering a 55-page verdict. The sentence can be death by hanging or life imprisonment.
CBI filed charegsheet in this case on May 19, 2007 in which the agency while giving clean chit to Pandher, had charged Koli of raping and murdering Rimpa Halder at the house of businessman at Nithari in Noida on the outskirts of Delhi.
Rimpa was first of the victims who were brutally killed on Feby 8, 2005.
