SC to listen to Nithari killings pleas towards Koli’s acquittal on March 25

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 attorneys showing within the matter.

On the outset, Solicitor Normal Tushar Mehta, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), advised the bench that the case was over the “very severe and grotesque” killings in Nithari, Uttar Pradesh.

In 2024, the highest court docket agreed to look at separate pleas filed by the CBI, Uttar Pradesh authorities and Pappu Lal, father of one of many sufferer women, difficult the Allahabad Excessive Court docket’s order of acquitting businessman Moninder Singh Pandher and his home assist Surendra Koli.

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Mehta had earlier advised the apex court docket that Koli was a serial killer who used to lure younger women and kill them. He had mentioned the killings had been “grotesque” and there have been accusations of cannibalism and the trial court docket had awarded the dying penalty to Koli, however the identical had been reversed by the Allahabad Excessive Court docket.

The Allahabad Excessive Court docket had in October 2023 acquitted Pandher and his home assist Surendra Koli in a number of the instances regarding the Nithari killings and overturned the dying penalty imposed on them by the trial court docket.

It had acquitted Koli in 12 instances and Pandher in two instances, the place they had been earlier held responsible of homicide and awarded the dying penalty by the trial court docket in these instances.

The CBI had registered 16 instances towards Koli and Pandher over the rape and killing of ladies that had shocked the nation.

The case got here to public consideration in December 2006, when skeletons had 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.

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Koli was made accused in the entire instances on numerous costs together with homicide, abduction, rape, and the destruction of proof. Nonetheless, Pandher was named in six of them.

Koli was convicted of committing a number of rapes and murders of assorted women and was sentenced to dying in additional than 10 instances.