Koli killed Nithari kids, Pandher had no knowledge: CBI

Submitting its chargesheet in the first of the 19 cases before the Special Judicial Magistrate in Ghaziabad, the agency named Koli as the main accused, saying Pandher was guilty only of “criminal conspiracy, destruction of evidence and running his home as a brothel”.

The first chargesheet was in relation to the killing of 26-year-old Payal, who went missing in May, 2006. While Koli has been charged with kidnapping, rape, murder and destruction of evidence, Pandher has been charged with criminal conspiracy, destruction of evidence, offering bribes and under the Immoral Trafficking Act. The third accused in the FIR is dismissed sub-inspector Simranjit Kaur, charged with accepting bribes and fudging evidence.

The CBI submitted eight boxes full of documents in the court, the culmination of a nearly two-month-long probe.

Koli, he said, murdered at least 19 women and children, and each time, Pandher was either out of the country or not present at the house.

The angle of organ trade was ruled out as the CBI recovered 69 bags of “bio-material” from the drain around D-5, including many organs. The DNA of eight victims has been matched.

Kumar gave details of their investigations supported by the findings of forensic and other experts and the lie-detector tests conducted on the two accused.

“There is no parallel anywhere in the world of two psychopaths living and doing crime together in the same house. Koli’s confession in court does not indict Pandher... and Koli’s extra-judicial confession indicates Koli was single-handedly capable of killing and dismembering his victims,” said the Joint Director.

According to the chargesheet, Koli is a “psychopath serial-killer with no empathy”. A board of doctors from AIIMS that examined him found him to be suffering from necrophilia (sexual attraction towards dead bodies), necrophagia (feeding on bodies), and paraphilia (obsession with unusual sexual practices).

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