On the last date of hearing on July 8, Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta, a senior law officer representing the CBI, said that Koli was a serial killer who used to lure young girls and kill them. “The killings were gruesome,” he said and told the bench that there were accusations of cannibalism. The trial court had awarded the death penalty to Koli, but the same had been reversed by the Allahabad High Court last year.In a similar development, the Supreme Court on May 4 asked the UP government to file its detailed response after hearing a plea filed by the father of one of the victims challenging the Allahabad HC’s acquittal order of Moninder Singh Pandher and Surendra Koli in the gruesome Nithari killings.The top court also earlier issued notices to the respective parties after hearing a Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by Pappu Lal, the father of one of the victim girls in the case.Lal had moved the apex court to challenge the acquittal of Pandher and Koli. The lawyers who represented Lal in the top court were Geeta Luthra, Shivani Luthra Lohiya, and others.The brutal murders came to public attention and created a scary picture in December 2006, in the small village of Nithari, a distance of 20 odd kilometres from the national capital, when several skeletons were discovered in a drain near a house in the village of Noida.The police, after a thorough investigation, revealed that Pandher was the owner of the house and Koli was his domestic help.The CBI took up the investigation into the matter and arrested Koli and Pandher, and accordingly, a chargesheet was filed by the probe agency against the duo for their crime.
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