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| Nithari witness backtracks |
| Nandlal, father of the victim Payal, retracted his statement about witnessing Pandher paying bribe as a cover-up bid.
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| INDIA
, 16-November-2007
1:38:1 AM |
| A key witness in the Nithari serial killings case has changed his statement about the role of Maninder Singh Pandher, one of the main accused in the case.
Nandlal, father of the victim Payal, retracted his statement about witnessing Pandher paying bribe as a cover-up bid.
Nandlal did a u-turn on critical parts of his original statement. He denied that he was present when a saw, which was recovered from the house, where his daughter was allegedly killed.
''Police did not find a saw while I watched,'' he said.
Nandlal also denied that he watched a senior police officer accept a bribe to mishandle the case.
''I didn't see police officer being bribed by those accused,'' added Nandlal.
He further said that he did not get a copy of the case diary from officers handling the case. Access to this case diary lent credibility to many of Nandlal's earlier allegations. But he says he is not turning hostile.
What Nandlal told the court could damage what he spent two years fighting for, justice for his daughter's death.
Whether Nandlal is genuinely confused about what happened earlier, or if he's caving in to pressure, his revisions in court are completely out of character.
He has been acknowledged as the man who fought a corrupt system so hard that the police and the country were finally forced to acknowledge one of India's worst human tragedies.
Nandlal's 20 year old daughter, Payal, went missing in May, 2006. Her father began combing his neighbourhood for her.
His search led him to this house D-5, Sector 31 in Noida, where human skulls and bones were littered. At least 20 bodies, most of them children were found murdered and dissected here but none of this would have been discovered without Nandlal's persistence.
It's been 11 months since the Nithari case first came to light. Experts worry that Perhaps the length and slow investigation is beginning to provoke an unraveling of the case in Delhi
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