Sub-Inspector Simarjit Kaur, former in-charge of the Nithari police post, who was dismissed after the serial killings and her alleged complicity with Moninder Singh Pandher came to light, has got her job back.

She is now posted in Noida. Recently, the police department ordered her transfer to Lucknow.

Kaur was among the six policemen dismissed for negligence in handling the Nithari case in January 2007. Later that year, the Allahabad High Court quashed their dismissal.

While the five others joined duty, Kaur remained in jail as she also faced criminal charges of derailing investigation, accepting bribes, helping the accused and destroying evidence in the murder of 20-year-old Payal.

Official sources said in March 2009, Kaur got bail. After coming out of jail, she joined duty in Noida, said a Noida police officer.

Besides Kaur, former chowki in-charges at Nithari — Rajvir Baliyan, Kamarpal Singh, Vinod Pandey — and station house officers at Noida’s Sector 20 police station, RN Singh Yadav and Deepak Chaturvedi, were dismissed on basis of the report of a fact-finding team which the government had sent to Nithari.

On March 20, 2007, the Central Bureau of Investigation, which had taken over the investigation, arrested Kaur and she was sent to the Dasna jail.

In their appeals in the High Court, “we told the court that neither was any chargesheet filed against them, nor was any showcause notice issued and while a departmental inquiry was pending, the order of dismissal was passed,” said Anoop Trivedi, advocate of the policemen.

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