January 21, 2025

Nithari Murders Case: Allahabad High Court acquits Surinder Koli, Pandher, death penalty cancelled | India News

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LUCKNOW: The Allahabad High Court on Monday acquitted prime suspect Surinder Koli in 12 cases concerning the 2005-2006 Noida serial murders case (Nithari case). In all 12 cases, he had been awarded the death penalty by the trial court.
On the other hand, another suspect, Moninder Singh Pandher has also been acquitted by the Court in two cases in which he was sentenced to death by the trial court.
With this, a bench of Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Syed Aftab Husain Rizvi allowed the appeals filed by Pandher and Koli after reserving the judgment in the cases last month. A detailed judgment is awaited.
While Koli was handed death sentences in 12 cases earlier, Pandher too, had been sentenced to death in 2 cases by the trial courts.
It is believed that the infamous Nithari murders were committed between 2005 and 2006. The matter came to light when in December 2006, skeletons were found in a drain near a house in Nithari, Noida.
Later, it was found that Moninder Pander is the owner of the house and Koli was his domestic help and hence, both were implicated in the FIRs.
The CBI registered a total of 16 cases, charge sheeting Koli in all of them for murder, abduction, and rape besides destruction of evidence, and Pandher in one for immoral trafficking.
The Ghaziabad court, however, summoned Pandher in five other cases after several victims’ families approached it. As per the CBI, Koli had killed several girls by chopping off their bodies to pieces before throwing them in the backyard outside their house. Advocate Manisha Bhandari appeared for Pander. Advocate Payoshi Roy appeared for Koli.



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