Special CBI Judge, Pawan Kumar Tiwari (anti-corruption), however, called it a "rarest of the rare" case and pronounced the sentence.
Karan Pandher, son of Nithari killings convict Moninder Singh Pandher, who was sentenced to death on Monday, said the judgment has come as a shocker for the family.
"The judgment has come as a shocker. There was hardly any evidence against him. Once again, he will be lodged in jail till the appeal is taken up by the High Court," said Karan, with tears in his eyes.
Before the sentence was announced, Pandher's lawyer had argued that there was no evidence against his ailing client and that he had already spent eight long years in jail. Koli, at the same time, had said: "There is no evidence against me. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has framed me. I feel I have been denied justice."
Special CBI Judge, Pawan Kumar Tiwari (anti-corruption), however, called it a "rarest of the rare" case and pronounced the sentence.
Almost 11 years ago, on December 29, 2006, the police had discovered as many as 19 skeletons of children from Pandher's house in Nithari. "We have waited for 11 years for them to be hanged. After our daughter was presumed dead, we had left Nithari as we couldn't bear the sight of Pandher's house. Every time I passed by the house, i would start crying," Bandana Sarkar, mother of victim Pinki, said.
"We want blood for blood. We will be able to sleep peacefully on the day they are hung," a family member of another victim said.
Here’s the chronology of the event
Dec 29, 2006: Nithari killings came to light when eight skeletal remains of children from a drain of a house in Nithari, was recovered. Two suspects — owner of the house Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help Surinder Koli were arrested.
Dec 30: More skeletons tumble out of the drainage.
Jan 05, 2007: Accused Pandher and Koli taken to Gandhinagar for extensive narco analysis test by Uttar Pradesh Police.
Jan 10: CBI takes charge of investigating the case.
Jan 11: First CBI team visits Nithari to initiate probe in the case. Thirty more bones found near Pandher’s house.
Jan 12: Pandher and Koli questioned by CBI.
Jan 20: Uttar Pradesh government files report to National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).
Feb 8: Special CBI court sends Pandher and Koli to 14 days of CBI custody.
Feb 12: NHRC forms a committee to study the matter.
Mar 22, 2007: CBI files first chargesheet in the case in the Ghaziabad court. Slaps lesser charges on Pandher. Koli, charged of committing all the murders besides kidnap rape.
May 1: Parents of three victims of the Nithari serial killings move court against the CBI for letting off main accused Pandher in connection with kidnapping and murder.
May 11: Ghaziabad court asks CBI to probe Pandher’s role in the killings.
Sep 6: Body of Jatin Sarkar, father of one of the victims in the Nithari serial killings, recovered from a river in West Bengal`s Murshidabad district.
Nov 01: The Supreme Court issues a notice to the CBI on the allegation by a relative of a victim that the investigating agency was trying to shield Pandher.
Dec 13: Special CBI Court in Ghaziabad frames charges against Pandher for the rape and murder of two teenagers.
Feb 12, 2009: Special Judge of CBI pronounces Pandher and Koli guilty of rape and murder.
Feb 13: Pandher and Koli sentenced to death by a special court for rape and murder of 14-year-old Rimpa Halder, one of 19 victims in the Nithari serial killings.
Sept 11, 2009: Allahabad HC aquits MS Pandher in Rimpa Haldhar murder case. Surinder Koli`s death sentence upheld.
Sept 3, 2014: Court issued death warrant against Koli in Nithari case
July 22, 2017: CBI court convicts Mohinder Pandher, Surinder Koli.
July 24, 2017: Pandher, Koli sentenced to death for serial rape
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