In one of the Nithari serial rape and murder cases, a local CBI court on Saturday held businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help Surinder Koli guilty of rape, murder, abduction and criminal conspiracy in 20-year-old's murder case
Moninder Singh Pandher and co-accused in the 2006 Nithari serial murders Surinder Koli were taken into custody. File Pics/AFP
In one of the Nithari serial rape and murder cases, a local CBI court on Saturday held businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help Surinder Koli guilty of rape, murder, abduction and criminal conspiracy in a case related to the killing of a 20-year-old woman. The court will declare the quantum of sentence on July 24.
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The court took stock of the arguments from prosecution lawyer JP Sharma who argued that scientific evidence has proved that Koli abducted, killed and raped the woman and tampered with the evidence. "Pandher was involved in the conspiracy of the crime," the court ruled.
The gruesome cases came to light in 2006 when the police discovered the skeletons of 19 people, mostly children, from near Pandher's house in the Noida village of Nithari. Earlier, many children had gone missing from the nearby slums of Nithari and their parents alleged that the police had ignored their complaints.
The case
On October 5, 2006, the woman was returning from work, when Koli kidnapped her from outside the Pandher residence. Koli beheaded her and threw the skull behind the house, which was found by the CBI. The parents identified her clothes, recovered from Koli.
19 No. of skeletons found at Pandher's house in Nithari
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