By IANS
Ghaziabad : A designated Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court Friday reserved its order on a petition by the parents of 14-year-old Pinki Sarkar, one of the 19 victims of the Nithari serial killings, against the agency's clean chit to Noida businessman Moninder Sinnh Pandher in offences of rape, abduction and murder.
Additional District Judge Rama Jain, after hearing the arguments by counsels of the late Pinki's father Jatin Sarkar and the CBI, reserved her order on the petition for May 7.
Sarkar's counsel Khalid Khan argued that the CBI's act of absolving Pandher of rape, abduction and murder charges were "lawfully and factually wrong".
The CBI counsel, however, defended the agency's decision saying that there was no evidence of Pandher's role in abductions and murders.
At least 17 human skulls and bones had been dug up from near the house of Pandher in Noida's Sector 31 in December last year.
Pandher's domestic aide Surendera Koli, in his confession to a Delhi's metropolitan magistrate had owned up all the charges of murder and rape of the victims of the Nithari serial killings.