Last Updated: October 16, 2023, 11:09 IST
Koli, who was found guilty of raping and murdering several children between 2005 and 2006. (File photo via Reuters)
Allahabad High Court has acquitted Nithari killings case prime accused Surendra Koli in 12 cases, in which he was awarded a death penalty by the trial Court
Allahabad High Court has acquitted Nithari killings case prime accused Surendra Koli in 12 cases, in which he was awarded a death penalty by the trial Court. Koli was sentenced to death in over 10 cases in connection with the Nithari killings.
Moninder Singh Pandher has been acquitted in two cases in which he was awarded the death penalty.
Surendra Koli and Moninder Singh Pandher are the accused and co-accused in the infamous Nithari murders of UP’s Noida. Koli was found guilty of raping and murdering several children between 2005 and 2006.
The gruesome case came to light in December 2006 when skeletons were found in a drain near a house in Nithari.
It was alleged that Koli would lure the children to the house, offering them sweets and chocolates, murder them, and have sex with the corpses. He was also accused of cannibalism. He would throw the bones and other body parts into a ditch behind the house.
His employer, businessman Moninder Singh Pandher, was co-accused of brutal murder and rape in the Nithari case.
