The CBI did not investigate the lapses by any public authority concerned in the Nithari killings probe
The CBI did not investigate the lapses by any public authority concerned in the Nithari killings probe
Yet another glaring lapse on behalf of the Central Bureau of Investigation has come to light in its investigations into the Nithari killings.
The central investigating agency has failed to probe into the alleged lapses by the Noida Police, Noida Authority and the National Commission for Women who could have saved many lives if they would have acted on time.
The CBI on January 22, in response to an RTI plea filed by Commodore Lokesh Batra, said it did not carry out any investigations whatsoever regarding the failure of the three agencies to act on time and save lives.
"We need to let the world know how officials from our governance system, who could have saved many lives if they had gone about their duties properly, have all gone scot-free. But, it is really shocking to see that even the CBI did not investigate the lapses by public authorities which could have averted Nithari killings or could have saved many innocent children," Commodore Batra told MiD DAY.
Noida Police
In explanations given to the National Commission for Women (NCW) through an action taken report on six girls missing from Nithari village in 2005, the Noida police mentioned that teams were sent to various places like Muzaffarnagar, Faridabad and Gurgaon, among other cities in the state and elsewhere in the country.
Police records, according to information received in a letter under an RTI application on January 4 2007, said that no officer has ever claimed reimbursements after such visits. Which means that either the visits did not take place or the officials made the visits but did not spend anything on them.
"It is amazing how officers of the (Noida) police kept paying for all the tours from their own pockets. They were either too concerned or no such search attempts were ever made," Batra said.
Noida Authority
The Noida Authority claimed that drains around Moninder Singh Pandher's residence - House Number D-5, Sector 31, Noida - were cleaned between December 20 and 23, 2006, just six days before the Nithari killings became public knowledge. According to Noida Authority, drains were being cleaned every 15-30 days and workers never found anything unusual there.
The Authority's response, to an RTI plea, also refers to an important point which was apparently overlooked by everyone involved in the Nithari investigations - the waste collected from the drains around house D-5 was deposited in the waste dump situated in Sector 54, Noida.
In its report on the Nithari killings, a committee set up by the Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) severely indicted the Noida Authority. "In the Nithari case, if the administration had cleaned the sewerage system on a regular basis, the bodies would have been discovered much earlier and probably some deaths could have been prevented," the report states. Clearly, Noida Authority's laxity contributed to the heinous crime in Nithari continuing unchecked.
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Human skulls, skeletal remains in gunny bags were found in a drain behind bungalow number D-5 in Noida's Sector 31. Pandher and his domestic help Surender Koli arrested on charges of rape and murder.
Dec 30 More skeletons found.
Dec 31u00a0 Uttar Pradesh police ordered a high-level probe.u00a0
Jan 1, 2007 Policemen and villagers clashed over the gory killings. Police questioned Pandher's family in Chandigarh.
Jan 2 The remains of the victims were sent to the forensic labs in Agra and Hyderabad.
Jan 3 The central government appointed a four-member panel to probe the killings. Then chief justice Y.K. Sabharwal rejected the demand for a CBI probe.
Jan 4 The UP government rejected the demand for a CBI probe.
Jan 5 Nithari villagers came out on the streets.The Uttar Pradesh government finally ordered a CBI inquiry.
Jan 9 More skeletons found in the drain behind the bungalow.
Jan 10/11 The CBI took over the probe and took custody of documents.
Jan 13 CBI officers found more human remains from two drains.
Feb 13 The CBI said bones were of four women and 15 children. The Uttar Pradesh police had already registered 19 cases.
March 1 Koli recorded his confessional statement in a Delhi court.
March 22 The CBI gave a clean chit to Pandher but indicted Koli as a cannibal, charging him with rape of 20-year-old Payal.
April 10 The CBI filed second charge sheet in the killing of 20-year-old Pinki Sarkar. Koli charged with abduction, rape and murder. Pandher spared again.
April 24 Third charge sheet filed in the killing of five-year-old Payal. Koli charged, Pandher again spared of killings.
Feb 12, 2009 Special CBI court convicted businessman Pandher and Koli for raping and killing 14-year-old Rimpa Haldar.
Feb 13 Pandher Koli sentenced to death for raping and killing Rimpa Haldar.
Sept 11 Allahabad High Court acquits businessman Moninder Singh Pandher in the Nithari serial killing case, setting aside the death sentence awarded to him by a lower court.
Jan 07, 2010 The Supreme Court stayed the death sentence of Surinder Kohli.
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