Death penalty for Pandher, Koli in Pinki Sarkar case
Surinder Koli and Moninder Pandher being taken to a jail in Ghaziabad on Monday.PTIPTI Duo charge-sheeted in 16 of 19 Nithari cases
Describing
the case as “rarest of rare”, CBI special judge Pawan Tiwari on Monday
sentenced to death businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic
help Surinder Koli in one of the 2006 serial Nithari rape and murder
cases.
The duo was on Saturday convicted in connection with the case concerning 20-year-old Pinki Sarkar by the special CBI court in Ghaziabad. Pandher, who was out on bail, was taken into custody after the conviction.
Three cases closed
Public Prosecutor J.P. Sharma said the court held Pandher and Koli guilty under Sections 302 (punishment for murder), 376 (punishment for rape), 364 (kidnapping or murder in order to murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC. Mr. Sharma said the duo had already been convicted and sentenced in six cases, while nine were in various stages of trial.
Pandher and Koli were charge-sheeted in 16 of the 19 cases and three cases were closed for want of evidence. Koli has already been sentenced to death in seven of the 16 cases.
Pandher’s lawyer Devraj Singh had said on Saturday his client would appeal against the conviction.
“Pandher was never named in the CBI charge sheet in the Pinki Sarkar case. The investigation had also proved that he had left for Dehradun on October 5, 2006, from his Noida office and returned on October 10. This in turn proved that he was not involved ,” Mr. Singh said.
According to the CBI charge sheet, Koli confessed to having lured Pinki, who was returning from work, into the house on October 5, 2006, killing and dismembering her, and dumping parts of her body in a drain near the house.
Meanwhile, there was a sense of relief among the victim’s kin. Jhabbu Lal, whose daughter Jyoti was one of those killed, said: “The harshest punishment should be meted out to both.”
The duo was on Saturday convicted in connection with the case concerning 20-year-old Pinki Sarkar by the special CBI court in Ghaziabad. Pandher, who was out on bail, was taken into custody after the conviction.
Three cases closed
Public Prosecutor J.P. Sharma said the court held Pandher and Koli guilty under Sections 302 (punishment for murder), 376 (punishment for rape), 364 (kidnapping or murder in order to murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC. Mr. Sharma said the duo had already been convicted and sentenced in six cases, while nine were in various stages of trial.
Pandher and Koli were charge-sheeted in 16 of the 19 cases and three cases were closed for want of evidence. Koli has already been sentenced to death in seven of the 16 cases.
Pandher’s lawyer Devraj Singh had said on Saturday his client would appeal against the conviction.
“Pandher was never named in the CBI charge sheet in the Pinki Sarkar case. The investigation had also proved that he had left for Dehradun on October 5, 2006, from his Noida office and returned on October 10. This in turn proved that he was not involved ,” Mr. Singh said.
According to the CBI charge sheet, Koli confessed to having lured Pinki, who was returning from work, into the house on October 5, 2006, killing and dismembering her, and dumping parts of her body in a drain near the house.
Meanwhile, there was a sense of relief among the victim’s kin. Jhabbu Lal, whose daughter Jyoti was one of those killed, said: “The harshest punishment should be meted out to both.”
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