The father of a Nithari case victim has questioned the death of Surendra Koli, alleging he was murdered and did not die by suicide. Koli, who was acquitted in all Nithari cases, was found hanging in Haridwar. Police are investigating, while the victim's father claims Koli was about to reveal important information and points to Moninder Singh Pandher as the main culprit.
Surendra Koli, who was at the centre of the sensational Nithari killings and subsequently acquitted in all 13 cases, was found hanging at his tea stall in Haridwar, police confirmed, with investigations ongoing into the suspected suicide.
The Supreme Court of India has acquitted Surendra Koli in one of the Nithari murder cases, paving the way for his release. Koli was earlier acquitted in other Nithari killing cases.
Surendra Koli, accused in the infamous Nithari serial killings, has been released from the Luksar district jail in Greater Noida, a day after the Supreme Court acquitted him in the last pending case linked to the 2006 serial murders that had shocked the nation, officials said on Thursday.
The Supreme Court expressed deep regret that the actual perpetrator of the Nithari killings was not established despite a prolonged investigation, while acquitting Surendra Koli in the last Nithari murder case.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court convicted Surinder Koli-- servant of Moninder Singh Pandher-- for murder and rape of teenager Rachna in the sensational Nithari killings case that sent shock waves across the country in 2006.
The protestors broke the security barricades, pelted stones at the house and set on fire the effigies of Pandher and Surinder as a handful of Uttar Pradesh policemen looked on.
Locals gathered in front of house number D-45 in Sector 31 of Noida soon after the verdict was pronounced and shouted slogans against police and the Central Bureau of Investigation. Rimpa's mother Dolly Halder was also among the protestors.
Karandeep sought the transfer on the grounds that a free and fair trial cannot be held in the surcharged atmosphere in Uttar Pradesh.
In a deposition that may help Nithari serial killings accused Moninder Singh Pandher, the father of a victim on Thursday withdrew in court his statements that led to registration of a case of conspiracy against him.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Tuesday found Surinder Koli guilty of the murder of seven-year-old Aarti, one of the 19 women and children from Noida's Nithari village, whose body parts were found in a drain near the residence of businessman Moninder Singh Pandher.Aarti was the last known victim in the Nithari killings. She disappeared approximately two months before the case was busted.
The report will now be given to the CBI to aid the investigating agency in its probe into the killings.
Bandana Sarkar, whose daughter Pinki was allegedly raped and murdered by Pandher and his servant Surinder Singh Koli, had moved the apex court.
Three years after the gory Nithari killings rocked the country causing widespread outrage over the cannibalistic and necrophiliac traits of convict Surinder Koli, 18 out of 19 cases continue to linger on.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death penalty awarded to Surinder Singh Koli in the Nithari killings case. Upholding Koli's death sentence, the court said, "The killings by Koli are horrifying and barbaric."Koli was awarded the fourth death sentence in the Nithari killings on December 22 last year.The CBI court also awarded the death sentence to Koli on May 12 last year for murdering seven-year-old Aarti in Noida's Nithari village.
Two years after the ghastly killing of children and women in Nithari came to light, a special court on Thursday awarded death penalty for businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his servant Surendra Koli for rape and murder. While Koli was found guilty by the court under various sections of Indian Penal Code for murder and rape, Pandher was convicted on the same charges along with Section 120-B (criminal conspiracy).
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the review plea of death row convict Surinder Koli in one of the Nithari murder cases.
The Allahabad high court on Monday granted bail to Moninder Singh Pandher, a prime accused in the infamous Nithari serial killings, in five cases but he is unlikely to come out of the jail as at least eight other cases of murder were still pending against him.
In a fresh development in the Nithari serial murder cases, Ghaziabad sessions court has issued death warrant against Surinder Koli in connection with the brutal killing of 14-year-old Rimpa Halder. Central Bureau of Investigation sources said that a death warrant was issued by additional sessions Judge Atul Kumar Gupta in the name of Koli that he should be hanged to death after the convict exhausted all his legal remedies in this case.
The Allahabad high court on Friday acquitted businessman Moninder Singh Pandher in one of the Nithari serial killing cases, setting aside the death sentence awarded to him by a lower court, but upheld the capital punishment handed down to his domestic help Surinder Koli
The apex court in May agreed to hear a plea filed by the father of one of the victims challenging the high court's order acquitting Koli in the case.
The two were charged with rape and murder and sentenced to death by a lower court in the killings in Nithari, Noida, that horrified the nation with the details of sexual assault, brutal murder and hints of possible cannibalism.
Judge Rakesh Tripathi awarded seven years imprisonment to Koli's employer -- businessman Moninder Singh Pandher -- in the case.
A CBI official in New Delhi said the team was waiting for the judgment copy and would take a call on next steps after studying it.
"Court has decided to examine the statement of Dinesh Yadav for the purpose of clarification. He was the initial investigating officer of the UP Police. Court has summoned Yadav to appear before it on April 15," S P Ahluwalia, special public prosecutor of the Central Bureau of Investigation, said.
The main accused in the Nithari serial murder cases Moninder Singh Pandher, and his co-accused Surinder Koli found guilty of murder and rape in one case by special judge Rama Jain.
Surender Koli, accused in the 2006 Nithari killings, Wednesday appealed to district judge to transfer his case from the Central Bureau of Investigation court presently hearing it to another court after he was sentenced to death for the fifth time.
Pandher and Koli were held guilty of kidnapping, rape and murder in the case
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Ghaziabad held Surinder Koli guilty of rape and murder of 12-year-old Deepali, whose body parts were found in a drain in Nithari in 2006.
The court has also slapped a fine of Rs 35,000 on Koli and Rs 25,000 on Pandher, CBI spokesperson said.
Nithari rapist-cum-serial killer Surinder Koli was on Wednesday shifted to Dasna jail in Ghaziabad from Meerut jail, where he had been taken for execution of his death sentence.
A special court has ordered that Surender Koli, sentenced to death in sensational Nithari serial killings case, be hanged between May 24 and May 31 following which he has filed a mercy petition before the President.
The disappearance of over 2,000 children from New Delhi in the last 13 months was on Thursday raised forcefully in the Rajya Sabha, where members expressed fear that it could become a case similar to the shocking Nithari murders."This could be for organ sale," Bharatiya Janata Party leader Prabhat Jha said while raising the matter during Zero Hour.With the Nithari incident still fresh in the public's mind, he said the disappearance of so many children was a grave matter.
Police on Thursday ruled out that Jatin Sarkar, the father of one of the victims in the Nithari mass killings, was murdered at Berhampore in Murshidabad district.
Maninder Singh Pandher, a businessman, and his servant Surinder Koli have been accused of raping and killing children at his Noida residence.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court sentenced Surinder Koli-- servant of businessman Moninder Singh Pandher--to death, for rape and murder of a nine-year -old girl in the sensational Nithari killings in 2006, saying he deserved a more severe punishment for his crimes.
The petition, filed collectively on April 28, accused the CBI of not making a sincere investigation.
No charges were framed against co-accused Pandher in the document.
The petition was filed by the Akhil Bharatiya Dalit Mahila Evam Samaj Sudhar Samiti.
In the petition filed through his advocate Sudhir Nandrajog, Karandeep said the atomosphere was not conducive for his father to get fair trial in Ghaziabad.
