The CBI said Pandher's exclusion from its case was based on thorough investigation and legally admissible evidence.
In the face of a court convicting and sentencing businessman Moninder Singh Pandher for rape and murder of a girl in Nithari ignoring CBI's contention, the agency on Friday said its case was based on thorough investigation and legally admissible evidence.
Reacting to the court verdict which had not taken into account the CBI's contention that Pandher was away in Australia along with his wife when Rimpa Haldar was raped and murdered in February 2005, the CBI said in a release that the opinion formed by it in all the 16 cases in Nithari was based on legally admissible evidence and the result of probe.
While the CBI said it was satisfied with the judgement pronounced against Surinder Koli, Pandher's servant, in Pandher's case further action, if any, would be taken only after the court examining the judgement and on the basis of legal advice.
The chargesheets were finalised in 16 cases after thorough probe from all angles, including scientific tests like DNA fingerprinting, skull superimposition and other legally admissible evidence.
While in eight cases, the identity of the victims was fixed through DNA test, in five cases, the identity could be established through skull superimposition test, the CBI said.
Investigation revealed that Pandher, owner of the house, was away when the incidents took place. "This is borne out from the documents, statement of witnesses and mobile phone records."
"When the first incident of abduction, rape and murder of Rimpa Haldar took place on February 8, 2005, Pandher was out of the country in Australia. The opinion formed by the CBI in all the 16 cases was based on legally admissible evidence and result of investigation," CBI said in the release.
The CBI said in 16 out of the 19 chargesheets filed so far, Pandher had been made accused in one case relating to a girl Payal, who used to visit his place in Nithari.
CBI, on the basis of the result of the investigation, haschargesheeted Pandher for offence of immoral trafficking, bribery and giving gifts to police officers to save himself and his reputation, it said.
The probe established that Koli, domestic help of Pandher, was involved in all the murders and he was a psychopath killer suffering from necrophilia and necrophagia.
CBI was handed over 19 Nithari killing cases, including the cureent one, for investigation in January, 2007 on the request of UP Government. The agency said it took only five months to complete the tedious investigation of the case related to abduction, rape and murder of Haldar and filed the chargesheet.
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