Nithari killers Pandher and Koli handed death sentence by CBI court
They were found guilty of rape, murder, abduction and criminal conspiracy over the killing of a 20-year-old woman, Pinky Sarkar, media reported.
The Pinky Sarkar case was one of the several cases lodged against them by the CBI on December 29, 2006.
Special Judge Pawan Kumar Tripathi, according to media reports, called it a "rarest of rare' case.
Koli and Pandher were present in the court during the sentencing.
Prosecution lawyer JP Sharma sought the death sentence and argued that forensic evidence proved that Koli abducted, killed and raped the woman and also tampered with evidence, reported NDTV.
The Nithari Murder case grabbed the headlines in 2006 when police found skulls and bones of 16 people, mostly children, near Pandher's house in Nithari village in Noida, while investigating the disappearance of Pinky Sarkar, whose skull was also recovered from the house.
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