INDIA: NITHARI KILLINGS: GALLOWS FOR PANDHER, KOLI

businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his servant Surinder Koli were sentenced to death by a special court for the rape and murder of Rimpa Halder, 14, one of 19 victims in the sensational Nithari serial killings in India. Special CBI judge Rama Jain held the crimes committed by Pandher, 55, and Koli, 38, to be "rarest of rare" deserving capital punishment. The Court convicted Pandher and his servant under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for murder, rape, criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence.