The CBI has filed a new petition in the Supreme Court against the High Court’s decision to acquit Surendra Koli in the sensational Nithari case of 2006. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear it. A bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Vishwanathan has linked this petition with the petitions pending in the Supreme Court against the High Court order of October 16, 2024.
On July 19, the Supreme Court had agreed to hear separate petitions filed by the CBI and the UP government against the High Court’s decision. A notice was also issued to Surendra Koli on these petitions and a reply was sought. In May, the court had agreed to hear a petition filed by the father of a victim challenging the High Court’s decision to acquit Koli in a case.
In this case, Moninder Singh Pandher was acquitted by the Sessions Court, while Surendra Koli was awarded death penalty on September 28, 2010. The High Court had acquitted Pandher and Koli in the case in which both were awarded death penalty. Overturning the death penalty awarded to Koli in 12 cases and Pandher in 2 cases, the court had said that the prosecution had failed to prove the guilt.
A total of 19 cases were registered against Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help Surendra Koli in 2007. The CBI filed closure reports in three cases due to lack of evidence, but in the remaining 16 cases, Koli was acquitted in the first 3 and his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in one. On December 29, 2006, skeletons of 8 children were found in a drain in Nithari, Noida.
At that time, Surendra Koli was accused of bringing girls to the mansion. He used to rape them. Then he used to kill them and throw the pieces of the body outside. This case was revealed after dozens of girls from Nithari village went missing. It so happened that on 7 May 2006, a girl named Payal went missing. She had come to Pandher’s mansion in a rickshaw. She stopped the rickshaw driver outside the mansion and told him to come back and pay the money.
When she did not return after a long time, the rickshaw puller knocked on the gate of the mansion to take the money. On this, Surendra Koli told him that Payal had left a long time ago. On hearing Surendra’s words, the rickshaw puller got suspicious. He said that he was right in front of the mansion and Payal did not come out. Then he informed Payal’s family about this. After this, Payal’s father Nandlal filed a case that his daughter had disappeared from the mansion.
In this way, for the first time the matter reached the police. Before this, more than a dozen boys/girls had disappeared from Nithari. In such a situation, the police started investigating this case with full intensity. Meanwhile, the police got information that Payal had a mobile phone. Which was getting switched off since the incident. When the police got the call details of that number, numbers from Mumbai and many other places were found. Then those numbers were investigated.
Important clues were found in this. On the basis of that, the police raided the house and the dark truth of the ‘male vampire’ of Nithari was revealed to everyone. When the police strictly interrogated Surendra and Moninder, they confessed to raping Payal and then killing her and throwing her body in the drain next to the house. Meanwhile, on the information given by both of them, Noida police recovered a large number of human skeletons from the drain in December 2006.
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