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Thu, 12th Feb 2009  Thursday is judgment day for domestic help Surendra Koli who allegedly killed, raped and then partially ate the body of 14-year-old domestic help Rimpa Halder at Nithari in Noida four year ago on February 8.
Over two years after the Noida police recovered dismembered bodies of Halder, 18 other children and women from around a posh bungalow in Noida, a designated Ghaziabad court will deliver the first of its verdict in the Nithari case on Thursday.
Koli’s employer Moninder Singh Pandher is a co-accused in the case.
Auto-driver Anil Halder, father of Rimpa Halder, is among those who have been waiting for this day of justice for long. Koli's employer businessman Moninder Singh Pandher, who was given a clean chit in the case by the CBI that took over the Nithari case, was made a co-accused in the killing and rape of Halder in accordance with the order passed by the court on July 16, 2007.
While CBI counsel J.P. Sharma had submitted that Pandher was away in Australia between January 28 and February 11, Halder's lawyer Khalid Khan had pointed out that though his client went missing on February 8, the prosecution did not establish exactly when she was killed and raped. “The time of the Halder’s murder is not clear. Besides, the skulls of the 16 victims in the case and the aaree (an axe-like tool used to cut metal wires) used to kill them were recovered by the Noida police at the instance of both Pandher and Koli,” said Khan.
Koli had “lured” Halder inside Pandher’s D-5 bungalow on February 8, four years ago, at around 11.30 am.
According to Koli’s voluntary confession recorded in-camera before a Delhi metropolitan court in early March 2007, he had allegedly strangulated her to death with her chunni (scarf) and then assaulted her sexually.
Koli allegedly later cooked and ate portions from the torso and flushed down the rest.
Koli, according to the chargesheet, was certified by doctors to be suffering from necrophilia (urge to have sex with corpse) and necrophagia (urge to eat the flesh of a body).
“The material evidence against Koli includes the weapons of crime and the victim's clothes that were recovered at his instance. His judicial confession admitting his crimes will be vital. The DNA samples taken from Halder’s skull and bones had also matched with her parents,” Sharma told HT.  | 
