‘There is justice,even for the poor’

Haldar complained the Noida Police still seemed uncaring.

Dolly alleged: “Five rickshaws were stolen from our locality,but constables deputed in front of D-5 told us their job was limited to guarding Pandher’s house. They were just as insensitive when we registered the FIR.”

The families of victims Pinki Sarkar and Madhu were also present in court when the judgement on Pandher and Koli was pronounced.

“The police officer posted in Nithari had earlier refused to lodge Madhu’s missing report saying she might have run away with someone. My 20-year-old daughter was raped and killed in D-5. Both Pandher and Koli admitted to the killing in front of me,” alleged Karanbir,Madhu’s father and a security guard in Noida.

Pinki’s mother Bandana Sarkar said,“Both Koli and Pandher went upstairs and recovered the axe while the probe was on. They confessed to their crime before the Noida police in front of us. We know how we have arranged money to get justice for our murdered children,” Bandana said. Pinki went missing on October 5,2005.

In court on Thursday,just after special CBI judge Rama Jain had convicted Koli and Pandher,his son Karndeep hugged his father and started sobbing. Devender Kaur too clung to her estranged husband in court.

Earlier in the morning,they had seemed confident that Moninder would get a clean chit in the Rimpa Haldar case.