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Relatives remember Nithari case victims
Tuesday was the third anniversary of the day when the Nithari killings came to light. Families of the victims performed religious rituals for the peace of the deceased’s souls, reports Kapil Datta.
Tuesday was the third anniversary of the day when the Nithari killings came to light.
Families of the victims performed religious rituals for the peace of the deceased’s souls.
The Nithari killings case involved the rape and murder of 19 children and women.
The family members expressed unhappiness with Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and vowed to fight the case to the highest court, and see businessman Moninder Singh Pandher put behind bars.
Pandher is a co-accused in six of the murder cases along with main accused Surendra Koli (Pandher’s domestic help), who got a death sentence.
The Allahabad High court, on September 11 this year, had acquitted Pandher of the charges leveled against him in the case involving the kidnapping, attempted rape and murder of domestic help Rimpa Halder (14) over four years ago.
Around 10 am on Tuesday, victims’ families assembled at bungalow number D-5, owned by Pandher and the scene of the crime.
Though they requested police to let them hold the ‘havan’ ceremony outside D-5, but the police denied them permission citing law and order grounds.
On February 13 this year, a Ghaziabad special court had awarded death to Pandher and Koli in the Halder case; the Allahabad High court had however upheld the death sentence given to Koli by the Ghaziabad court.
The Central Bureau of Investigation, which took over the probe into the murder cases from the Noida police that had arrested Pandher and Koli on December 29, 2006, has till now submitted 16 charge sheets in the Ghaziabad court and held Koli responsible for the rape/attempted rape and murder of the victims.
