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CBI files second chargesheet in Nithari case

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday filed the second chargesheet in the Nithari serial killings case. It charged Surender Koli with abducting, criminally assaulting and killing a young woman at the Noida house of his employer, Moninder Singh Pandher, in October last.

According to the chargesheet filed in a Ghaziabad special court, Koli killed Pinki Sarkar, who worked as a maid in a nearby house. On October 5, 2006, Koli was standing outside the Sector 31 house when he saw Sarkar He offered her a job at Moninder's house and took her inside on that pretext. He strangled her using a "chunni," and criminally assaulted her. Following this, he took the body to a bathroom on the first floor, dismembered it and disposed it of.

The chargesheet mentioned that Koli confessed to having murdered Sarkar in his statement recorded under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. When he was shown the partially assembled skeletons of the victims at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, he identified Sarkar's hairband.

DNA analysis

Through DNA analysis, forensic experts established that Sarkar was one of the victims whose remains were recovered from the drain adjoining Moninder's residence. Surender has also been charged with destroying evidence.

The CBI submitted that Pandher was at the Great Value Hotel in Dehra Dun on the day Koli murdered Sarkar. From there, he went to Tehri Garhwal and stayed at the Tehri Club and Resort.

The court admitted the chargesheet and fixed the next hearing for Wednesday, a CBI official said.

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