Live India : Death sentence for Pandher and Koli
A Special CBI court today awarded death punishment to Moninder Singh Pander and Surinder Koli, convicted in infamous Nithari killings.
The CBI today sought death penalty for Nithari serial killings case convict Surinder Koli while leaving it to the court the quantum of punishment for businessman Moninder Singh Pandher in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl.
The special CBI court had yesterday found the duo guilty on the charges of rape and murder in the gruesome killing of Rimpa Halder, first of the 19 Nithari victims.
Observing the case as rarest of rare crime, the CBI judge pronounced hang them until death.
The judgement has come as a major embarrassment for the CBI which had probed the case and had given a clean chit to
Pander. Of the 19 cases, the CBI has filed chargesheets in 16 cases against Koli.
During the half-hour long final arguments before the pronouncement of quantum of sentence by judge Rama Jain, agency’s counsel S P Ahluwalia termed the killings by Koli as “rarest of rare” and a fit case for capital punishment.