Kohli held guilty in 2nd Nithari killings case

The Arti case is the second of the 19 cases of rape and murder of children and a young woman in which the special court has pronounced its verdict. The crimes occurred in Nithari village in Uttar Pradesh in 2006.

Kohli(38) was named as the sole accused in connection with the brutal murder of Arti in the chargesheet filed by CBI after it took over the probe into Nithari killings from the local police. In all,46 witnesses were produced in 113 hearings in the murder of Arti,whose body parts were found in a drain.

Kohli was on February 13,2009 sentenced to death in the Rimpa Haldar case along with Pandher. However,Pandher was acquitted by the Allahabad High Court on September 11,2009.

Arti went missing in June 2006 and a few months later her body was found from the vicinity of Pandher’s D-31 bungalow in Nithari in Noida along with bodies of 17 other children and a young woman. Thereafter,19 cases were registered.

Kohli has been charged with rape,abduction and murder in all the cases while Pandher,his employer behind whose bungalow the body parts were found,is co-accused in six cases. CBI however gave a clean chit to Pandher.

Kohli,who was in the court,was quiet and looked serious after being held guilty in the first Nithari killing case. He broke down last year after being convicted in the Rimpa Haldar case.