Special CBI judge A K Singh said the judgment in the Deepali rape and murder case, in which Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help Surender Koli are prime accused, will now be pronounced on December 22, without giving any reason for the delay.
Pandher, a businessman, and Koli were present in the court on Monday.
The court had on December 17 fixed December 20 for pronouncement of the judgment.
Koli was awarded death sentence by the special court in three of 19 cases filed in connection with the rape and murder of children and a young woman in Nithari. The brutal killings that shocked the country came to light when their body parts were found in a drain behind Pandher's D-31 bungalow in Nithari in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
On February 13, 2009, the duo were sentenced to death in the Rimpa Haldar case in the first verdict in the Nithari killings. However, Pandher was acquitted by the Allahabad high court on September 11, last year
Koli was held guilty in two other cases of rape and murder of eight-year-old Aarti and nine-year-old Rachna this year.
The mother of Deepali, who was missing since June 2006and whose name was mentioned in the complaint lodged in December that year about the children missing from the area, had identified her daughter through her footwear.
