The high court had allowed multiple appeals filed by Koli and Pandher, who had challenged the death sentence awarded by a Central Bureau of Investigation court in Ghaziabad.In all, 19 cases had been lodged against Pandher and Koli in 2007. The CBI had filed closure reports in three cases due to lack of evidence.In the remaining 16 cases, Koli was earlier acquitted in three and his death sentence in one was commuted to life.The sensational killings came to light with the discovery of the skeletal remains of eight children from a drain behind Pandher’s house at Nithari in Noida, bordering the national capital, on December 29, 2006.Further digging and searches of drains in the area around the house led to the recovery more skeletal remains.Most of these remains were those of poor children and young women who had gone missing from the area.Within 10 days, the CBI had taken over the case and its search resulted in the recovery of more remains.
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