New Delhi, February 9
Stating that the investigating agency has been able to unravel the crime to a large extent in the Nithari serial killings case, CBI Director Vijay Shanker said today the first charge sheet in the case would be filed in less than three months.
“I am happy to report that we have almost unravelled the entire crime and its perpetrators. We will start filing the charge sheet in the case soon. The first charge sheet will be filed within three months from now or may be even earlier,” Mr Shanker told newspersons.
Asked whether the two accused, Moninder Singh Pandher and Surendra Koli, were really behind the macabre killings, the CBI chief, without naming the accused, said the probe indicated that that most of the killings were committed by one of the two accused.
Ruling out organ trade to be a reason behind the brutal killings, he said: “The CBI has found nothing whatsoever to indicate that there was an organ-trade racket behind the killings.”
Explaining the difficulties being faced by the agency and the reason for setting a long deadline to conclude investigations, Mr Shanker pointed out that there was no witness to the serial killings and the entire case had to be based on forensic and scientific evidence.
“We have to have clinching forensic evidence to connect the accused to each of the 10 cases of murder and to ensure that the case is proved in the court of law,” he said.
More than 20 skulls, mostly belonging to children, have been recovered from behind the Noida house of Pandher. The CBI had taken over the case on January 11 from the Uttar Pradesh Police.
