Nithari’s Koli to hang this month
A special CBI court in Ghaziabad has ordered that 39-year-old Surender Koli, sentenced to death for the Nithari serial killings of children, be hanged between May 24 and 31.
After the death warrant was issued, Koli moved a mercy petition before the President on May 7, the court was told Monday, after which the judge fixed May 13 for further orders.
Koli’s death warrant was issued after the Supreme Court in February confirmed the death penalty for the rape and murder of 14-year-old Rimpa Haldar. On September 11, 2009, the Allahabad high court confirmed Koli’s death sentence while acquitting Moninder Singh Pandher.
The CBI judge, in his May 3 order, said Koli should be hanged at 4 am on any day between May 24 and 31.
Koli was sentenced to death along with 54-year-old Pandher, his employer, by the Ghaziabad court on February 13, 2009.
Upholding the high court ruling, the Supreme Court said the case was “horrifying” and “barbaric” and “no mercy can be shown to him”. A division bench of Justices Markandey Katju and Gyan Sudha Misra said “Koli has not retracted his confessional statement” and that the crime was “premeditated” — falling in the “rarest of rare” category.
Sixteen cases were registered against Koli after the Nithari killings came to light in December 2006, when human remains were found in a drain behind Pandher’s house in Noida.
Haldar was one of the victims of the serial killing that sent shockwaves across the country. Koli was also sentenced to death in four other cases.
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