By IANS,
Ghaziabad : A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court here Thursday deferred till 4 p.m. the verdict in the murder and rape of Rimpa Haldar, one of the 19 children and young women from Nithari village near Noida whose body parts were found in a drain in the affluent Delhi suburb.
Special judge Rama Jain gave Moninder Singh Pandher, behind whose bungalow the remains were found, one last chance to clarify details in the case before deferring her ruling.
She asked Pandher if he wanted to say something about the confessional statement his domestic help and main accused in the case Surendra Koli gave in a Delhi court in 2007.
To which he shook his head and said: “I don’t want to.”
Jain prodded him further about his involvement with a woman named Payal, who was mentioned in Koli’s statement. Koli had said Pandher allegedly had sexual relations with the women victims, “who would often spend the night”.
To which he did not deny his involvement “Yes, yes (haan haan) Payal�”
The two accused were brought to the special court being held in court number 27 at 10.30 a.m. from Dasna jail.
Pandher, wearing a beige pants and a sweater to match was at ease, while Koli, the main accused, seemed tense and was handcuffed.
The special court last month completed proceedings in the murder of 14-year-old Rimpa Haldar, who lived in Nithari village near the bungalow belonging to businessman Pandher. This will be the first verdict in the Nithari killings.
According to the May 2007 chargesheet by the CBI, which took over the case from Noida police two years ago, Halder was allegedly raped and murdered about four years ago by Koli at the bungalow in Noida’s Sector 31.
Halder was allegedly strangled and then cut to pieces by Koli with two kitchen knives and an axe.
The chargesheet alleges that Koli was suffering from necrophilia (urge to have sex with a corpse) and necrophagia (urge to eat the flesh of a body).
Pandher and help Koli have been in jail since December 2006, when the horrific crime that stunned the nation with its grisly details came to light.