Describing Moninder Singh Pandher as "innocent", family members accused the media of influencing a special CBI court's verdict.
Describing Moninder Singh Pandher as "innocent", family members of the businessman accused media of influencing a special CBI court's verdict which found entrepreneur and his servant Surinder Koli guilty in the murder and rape of a 14-year-old girl.
"He is innocent," Pandher's wife Devender Kaur said rubbishing media reports which claimed that they were divorced.
Pandher's family blamed Koli for the rape and murder of Rimpa Halder, one of the victims of infamous Nithari killings in Noida on the outskirts of Delhi.
"We never suspected his intentions and activities. I lived in that house (D-5 sector 31) from 2000 to 2005, but I could never suspect what all Koli has been doing. The house was always spic and span. Koli was a clever man and he knows what to say and what not to," Kaur said.
Pandher's 25-year-old son Karandeep Singh, who was upset over the verdict's outcome, sarcastically thanked media for the court's judgement that declared his father guilty along with Koli in the rape and murder of Halder.
"I would rather wish that my father is awarded a capital punishment. There are 19 other cases which will be fought on the same evidence and my father will be doomed in the jail for his entire life," he said.
"I talked to the media for the first time in January 2007, but it always kept ignoring our version," Karan said.
"He was a very chilled out father and a very good friend to my friends."
Karan, a student of political science in Canada-based University of Windsor, said many of his father's friends who were involved with him in his business, left him after this case. But his friends back in Canada were still with him.
He said his father maintained a very tight schedule and was on the verge of expanding his business when this case broke out.
"It was said that the barbecue installed in the house was used for roasting human flesh. It was installed by me. I never found something of that sort," Pandher's wife said.
"His normal schedule was that he came back from his business meetings, went straight into his room and watched television. He never bothered about what was happening in his house. Koli served the food in the same room when he came back. He was a avid fan of the History channel."
Karan said that certain things about prostitution was happening at this home (Pandher's house) but this is all secondary and his mother is the one who should hold his father guilty and not someone else.
"I'm getting regular calls from my friends in Canada who ask about the development in the case. They all want him safe," he added.
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