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Nithari killings: Surinder Koli held guilty in second case

Koli was named as the sole accused in connection with the brutal murder of Arti in the charge sheet filed by CBI after it took over the probe into Nithari killings from the local police.

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A special CBI court today held businessman Moninder Singh Pandher’s domestic help Surinder Koli guilty in the rape and murder of seven-year-old Arti in one of the 19 cases of Nithari killings.

Special Additional District and Session Judge AK Singh, who convicted Koli in the Arti murder case, is expected to pronounce the quantum of sentence tomorrow.

The Arti case is the second of the 19 cases of rape and murder of children and a young woman in which the special court has pronounced its verdict.

The crimes occurred in Nithari village in Uttar Pradesh in 2006.

Koli (38) was named as the sole accused in connection with the brutal murder of Arti in the chargesheet filed by CBI after it took over the probe into Nithari killings from the local police.

In all, 46 witnesses were produced in 113 hearings in the murder of Arti, whose body parts were found in a drain.

Koli was on February 13, 2009 sentenced to death in the Rimpa Haldar case along with Pandher. However, Pandher was acquitted by the Allahabad high court on September 11, 2009.

Arti went missing in June 2006 and a few months later her body was found from the vicinity of Pandher's D-31 bungalow in Nithari in Noida along with bodies of 17 other children and a young woman.

Thereafter, 19 cases were registered.

Koli has been charged with rape, abduction and murder in all the cases while Pandher, his employer behind whose bungalow the body parts were found, is co-accused in six cases. CBI however gave a clean chit to Pandher.

Koli, who was in the court, was quiet and looked serious after being held guilty in the first Nithari killing case.

He broke down last year after being convicted in the Rimpa Haldar case.

"Koli has been found guilty under Sections 302 (murder), 364 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder) and 201(causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender) of Indian Penal Code. Hearing for sentencing will be held tomorrow," Koli's lawyer, JP Singh said.

Arti's father Durga Prasad accused the CBI of not allowing him to give complete statement which led to the acquittal of co-accused Pandher.

"Until now CBI has not allowed me to give my complete statements. If I had given it, then the court would have found Pandher guilty... Pandher and Kohli were co-conspirators," Prasad said.

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