The CBI had registered 16 circumstances against Koli and Pandher over the rape and killing of women that had shocked the nation.
The Supreme Court on Monday posted for listening to on March 25, a batch of pleas against the acquittal of Surendra Koli, accused within the 2005-06 Noida Nithari killings. A bench of Justices BR Gavai and Augustine George Masih directed its registry to summon the trial court docket information in different linked issues expeditiously and provide its copies to the legal professionals showing within the matter.
At the outset, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), informed the bench that the case was over the “very serious and gruesome” killings in Nithari, Uttar Pradesh. In 2024, the highest court docket agreed to study separate pleas filed by the CBI, Uttar Pradesh authorities and Pappu Lal, father of one of many sufferer women, difficult the Allahabad High Court’s order of acquitting businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his home assist Surendra Koli. Mehta had earlier informed the apex court docket that Koli was a serial killer who used to lure younger women and kill them.
He had mentioned the killings have been “gruesome” and there have been accusations of cannibalism and the trial court docket had awarded the loss of life penalty to Koli, however the identical had been reversed by the Allahabad High Court. The Allahabad High Court had in October 2023 acquitted Pandher and his home assist Surendra Koli in among the circumstances in regards to the Nithari killings and overturned the loss of life penalty imposed on them by the trial court docket. It had acquitted Koli in 12 circumstances and Pandher in two circumstances, the place they have been earlier held responsible of homicide and awarded the loss of life penalty by the trial court docket in these circumstances.
The CBI had registered 16 circumstances against Koli and Pandher over the rape and killing of women that had shocked the nation. The case got here to public consideration in December 2006, when skeletons have been found in a drain close to a home in Nithari village, Noida. Pandher was the proprietor of the home and Koli was his home assist. Koli was made accused in the entire circumstances on varied costs together with homicide, abduction, rape, and the destruction of proof. However, Pandher was named in six of them. Koli was convicted of committing a number of rapes and murders of varied women and was sentenced to loss of life in additional than 10 circumstances.
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