New Delhi: The special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court will pronounce its first judgment in the Nithari killings case in the Capital on Thursday.
Over two years after the Noida police recovered dismembered bodies of Rimpa Halder, 18 other children and women from around a posh bungalow in Noida, a designated Ghaziabad court will deliver the first of its verdict in the Nithari case.
Moninder Singh Pandher and his man servant Surinder Koli are the prime accused in the case.
The Rimpa Haldar murder case will be the first in which Special Judge Rema Jain will pronounce the verdict.
Haldar, a married woman, was called by Koli to work as housemaid at Pandher’s house. She had gone missing before the disclosure of the Nithari killings.
Rema Jain completed the proceedings after the re-cross examination of former Noida police officer Dinesh Yadav on January 27 and the recording of statements of Pandher and Koli.
A total of 19 cases of killings, mainly of girls and women, were registered at the Noida police station in December 2006 and all the cases were transferred to CBI for investigation.
The agency till date had filed chargesheets in 16 cases and gave a clean chit to Pandher while it framed charges against Koli.
The CBI had filed the chargesheet against Koli in May 2007, and given a clean chit to Pandher saying he was in Australia when Haldar was raped and murdered.
However, during the trial, victim’s advocate got the same charges pressed against Pandher stating there was no specific date of murder of Haldar on record. What happened two years ago
Millions across the country and abroad were horrified as police on December 29, 2006, began uncovering the remains of 19 children and young women from a drain next to businessman Moninder Singh Pandher's house in Nithari on the outskirts of New Delhi.
Pandher and Koli, have since been in jail. The families of victims are desperately hoping that they will be brought to justice.
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Rimpa was among 19 children and young women whose skeletal remains were first discovered from a sewer behind Pandher's plush D-5 bungalow in Noida's Sector 31.
The human skulls stuffed in 57 gunny bags containing almost 700 bone pieces kept tumbling out of the drain for the next few days.
The families of victims say they have faith in the judiciary but not in the CBI which is investigating the cases.
"I believe the court will certainly punish Pandher and give justice to my daughter. But the CBI has left no stone unturned in saving his skin," said Anil, who vividly remembers February 8, 2005 – the day his daughter did not return home from work.
She used to work as a domestic help along with her mother in the bungalows near D-5. Her identity was established after the CBI recovered her clothes from Pandher's house. A DNA test too was performed.
Soon after the discovery of the killings, Noida police arrested Pandher and his domestic aide Koli on charges of rape, murder, abduction, immoral trafficking prevention act and criminal conspiracy.
Within a few days the case was transferred to India's premier investigation agency CBI after Noida police was accused of accepting huge kickbacks from Pandher for not initiating any action against Koli and him.
The CBI, which conducted various scientific tests, including narco and polygraph tests, on both the accused and interrogated them for days, exonerated Pandher but said his servant Koli was a cannibal. Koli was charged with rape and manslaughter.
CBI joint director Arun Kumar had then described Koli as a necrophile, a person with an erotic fascination for corpses, who carried out all the murders when Pandher was away from his house in Noida.
Kumar said Koli allegedly killed all his victims by strangulation and then meticulously chopped off their body parts and organs and ate them.
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