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| Allahabad HC acquits Pandher |
| Allahabad HC acquits Pandher in Nithari case
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| INDIA
, 11-September-2009
4:20:27 AM |
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Noida-based businessman Moninder Singh Pandher was today acquitted in one of the infamous Nithari serial killings cases by the Allahabad High Court which upheld the death sentence awarded to his domestic help Surinder Koli by the trial court.
Delivering the verdict in a packed courtroom, a division bench comprising Justices Imtiyaz Murtaza and Kashi Nath Pandey pointed out that the CBI, which was investigating the case, "did not file chargesheet against Pandher on the ground that there was no evidence against him for committing the murder of Rimpa Haldar".
The court, however, made it clear that Pandher's acquittal "was only in this (Haldar) case and shall not affect trial in other related cases".
The court upheld the death sentence of Koli, who had admitted to have killed 14-year-old Haldar.
Pandher's son Karandeep Singh, who was present in the High Court, expressed delight over the acquittal of his father and said he was now looking forward to "justice in the remaining cases related to this matter".
The High Court, he said, had sustained CBI's chargesheet and "we are quite happy about that".
Pandher's lawyer Manisha Bhandari said that she will try for bail for her client in view of the verdict.
Disagreeing with the judgement of the lower court, which had on February 13 this year awarded death penalty to the duo, the High Court said, "The summoning of Pandher under Section 319 CrPC (blanked power to the trial court to summon an individual) was not correct
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