By IANS
Ghaziabad : A special court here trying Noida businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic aide Surendra Koli for the serial killing of children and young women in Nithari village, Monday deferred to July 6 the deposition by the father of one of the victims.
Special Judge Rama Jain of the designated Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Court had to defer the deposition by Nand Lal, father of alleged sex worker Payal, as one of the formal prosecution witnesses, Ashwini Kumar, was not able to complete his testimony.
The CBI had roped in Kumar, a State Bank of India employee, as one of its witnesses, while recovering slippers and clothes of the victims as also the knives allegedly used by Koli for the killings from the drains and bushes adjacent to Pandher's house in Noida.
The court was also preoccupied with the deposition of yet another prosecution witness, Capt Rakesh Bakshi, a nodal officer of the mobile telephone service provider Airtel.
Before the summer vacation that ended Monday, the court had decided to hear expeditiously Nand Lal's deposition after his counsel Khalid Khan pleaded that his client should be examined first as he is under pressure from various quarters to change his statement.
Khan had contended that while CBI is eager to have its own formal witnesses, who figured way below in the list of witnesses and were examined early, in the case related to Payal's killing it had not bothered to record the deposition of the first witness in the case – the slain girl's father Nand Lal.