Nithari killings: first judgement on 12th Feb

Over two years after the grisly Nithari killings came to light, the special CBI court will give its first judgement in the matter on 12th February as it has completed proceedings in the Rimpa Haldar murder case. Special Judge Rama Jain completed the proceedings after the re-cross examination of former Noida police officer Dinesh Yadav on 27th January and the recording of statements of the prime accused Moninder Singh Pandher and his servant Surender Kohli. Victim's counsel Khalid Khan had made a request two days back about the conviction of both the accused. The CBI had filed the chargesheet against Kohli 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 and to give the benefit to Pandher was not justified by the CBI. 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 in all, it gave a clean chit to Pandher while framed charges against Kohli. Haldar was a married woman and was called by Kohli to work at Pandher's bunglow as a maid servant. She was reportedly missing before the disclosure of the Nithari killings.

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