A special CBI court in Ghaziabad on Friday awarded death sentence to Noida businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic servant Surendra Koli in connection with one of the 16 murder cases, infamous as the Nithari killings.
The sentence was passed by the court in the rape and murder case of a 25-year-old maidservant. This was the ninth among the 16 cases in which Koli was convicted.
This was also the third case in which both Pandher and Koli were convicted by the court on Thursday.
"Koli and Pandher have been awarded death sentence by a special CBI court in Ghaziabad," CBI spokesperson Abhishek Dayal said.
The CBI had told the court that the victim was a domestic help who went missing on October 12, 2006.
She was identified through her clothes found amid the human remains from the area behind Pandher's house in Nithari village in Sector 31, Noida, the CBI had said.
The Nithari killings surfaced when skeletal remains of 16 people, mostly children, were discovered from the backyard of Pandher's house by the local police.
(Published 08 December 2017, 11:14 IST)
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