The Noida killers

Somehow India has become an easy place to commit a crime and escape for years. Politicians and highly influential people use the judiciary and its cumbersome procedures as a tool to manipulate the system in their favor. Even in those cases where there is justice eventually, the victim has to struggle for decades. Life threats to witnesses, money power, moving into foreign hideouts, producing false evidences, utilizing legal loopholes, muscle politics etc are all common. The recent Nithari trial is no exception. It appears that the CBI, the witnesses and the lawyers themselves have all been bought over. A year after truth began emerging from a death bungalow there is not even a small sign of justice.

One of the victim’s fathers, had earlier said,

I was present when the police first quizzed Moninder Singh Pandher. He had taken the police to an area beside his house from where the big knife was recovered by the police.

However, Nandlal, the father later changed his statement and accused his lawyer of giving wrong guidelines, under pressure. Many fighting parents accuse Nandlal of falling to money weight. Though the lawyer has denied the charge, one really wonders what do these lawyers now want to reap out of this saga?

Even the CBI seems to have forgotten its real duty. The agency has charged Moninder Pandher lightly for just immoral trafficking and not rape and murder. Moreover it is trying its best to conceal the statement made by the latter. Moninder had earlier confessed to the police,

When I could not get a girl at night, I could not sleep. I would then ask Surinder to make some arrangement. He would lure any boy or girl he found near the house. This way, I raped several small girls and boys in the last year or year and a half, for which I am sorry. Whoever I raped, I got (them) killed by Surinder so that the secret was never out. Please forgive me.

To turn a perfectly lawyer, the CBI is now producing ‘just bills without witnesses’ from outside Delhi to prove that Moninder was not in Nithari when the killings went on. Shouldn’t the CBI itself be charged now for not following proper procedures?

It is just in four cases that Pandher has been charged with rape and murder. There are 15 other cases too. What will happen to them? Will all these cases be lost as many others have in India? While the victim’s parents and relatives continue to hope for justice some day, these U-turns and delays are ample signs to the fact that somewhere, someone is erasing many many evidences.

News Source: NDTV

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