New Delhi: Surendra Koli and Moninder Singh Pandher have been given death sentence in the rape and murder case 14-year-old Rimpa Haldar by a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Friday.
Pandher and Koli had been convicted on Thursday Special Judge Rama Jain of raping and killing Rimpa Haldar four years ago.
Pronouncing the sentence, Special Judge Rama Jain held that "this is indeed a rarest of rare case" and deserved capital punishment.
The verdict is the first out of 19 cases in what has come to be known as the Nithari killings, which shocked the nation with its overtones of sexual abuse and cannibalism.
Koli and Pandher were arrested on December 29, 2006, after police found 15 skulls outside the businessman's bungalow in Noida adjacent to the national capital. The house (D-5) in Noida's Sector 31, is next to Nithari village.
Subsequently, more bones were found in the drain behind the bungalow. Eventually, investigations revealed that the remains belonged to four women and 15 young girls who had been raped, killed and mutilated.
The CBI in its chargesheet in the gruesome murder of Haldar in May 2007 had exonerated Pandher of abduction, rape and murder. Two months later, however, the court reprimanded the agency and Pandher was made co-accused with Koli.
The CBI chargesheet stated that Haldar was strangled and then cut to pieces by Koli with two kitchen knives and an axe four years ago. It said Koli was suffering from necrophilia (urge to have sex with a corpse) and necrophagia (urge to eat the flesh of a body).
Koli and Pandher get death in Nithari case
Pandher and Koli had been convicted on Thursday Special Judge Rama Jain of raping and killing Rimpa Haldar four years ago.
Pronouncing the sentence, Special Judge Rama Jain held that "this is indeed a rarest of rare case" and deserved capital punishment.
The verdict is the first out of 19 cases in what has come to be known as the Nithari killings, which shocked the nation with its overtones of sexual abuse and cannibalism.
Koli and Pandher were arrested on December 29, 2006, after police found 15 skulls outside the businessman's bungalow in Noida adjacent to the national capital. The house (D-5) in Noida's Sector 31, is next to Nithari village.
Subsequently, more bones were found in the drain behind the bungalow. Eventually, investigations revealed that the remains belonged to four women and 15 young girls who had been raped, killed and mutilated.
The CBI in its chargesheet in the gruesome murder of Haldar in May 2007 had exonerated Pandher of abduction, rape and murder. Two months later, however, the court reprimanded the agency and Pandher was made co-accused with Koli.
The CBI chargesheet stated that Haldar was strangled and then cut to pieces by Koli with two kitchen knives and an axe four years ago. It said Koli was suffering from necrophilia (urge to have sex with a corpse) and necrophagia (urge to eat the flesh of a body).
Koli and Pandher get death in Nithari case
we actually have a judgment this early ??
