Surendra Koli
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Surendra Koli dies by suicide: What happened in Nithari killings case in nearly 20 years
India | Sep 18, 2026, 02:50 PM ISTThe Nithari killings case began with the recovery of human remains in Noida in 2006 and went through nearly two decades of trials and appeals. Here is a timeline of Surendra Koli and Moninder Singh Pandher's arrests, convictions, acquittals and the latest developments.
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Surendra Koli, acquitted in 2006 Nithari serial killings, dies by suicide in Haridwar
India | Sep 18, 2026, 11:49 PM ISTSurendra Koli, who was accused in the Nithari killings case and was acquitted by the Supreme Court in the final case in November 2025, was found hanging at a tea stall in Haridwar. Police have informed his family and launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death.
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Nithari killings case: Accused Surendra Koli walks out of jail after Supreme Court acquittal
India | Nov 12, 2025, 09:35 PM ISTThe bench observed that it was deeply regrettable that negligence and delay had undermined the fact-finding process in the case, effectively closing off potential paths that could have led to the identification of the real perpetrator.
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Nithari case: Supreme Court rejects 14 pleas against Surendra Koli’s acquittal, calls probe flawed
India | Jul 30, 2025, 07:47 PM ISTThe Supreme Court has dismissed 14 appeals challenging the acquittal of Surendra Koli in the 2006 Nithari serial killings case. The court upheld the Allahabad High Court’s decision, stating there was no legal error or "perversity" in its findings.
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Nithari case: SC agrees to hear plea of victim's father against acquittal of Surendra Koli
Crime | May 04, 2024, 08:11 PM ISTThe Nithari murder and rape case was unveiled after skeletal remains were found behind accused Pandher’s bungalow in Noida’s Nithari, on December 29, 2006. Most of these remains were that of poor children and young women who had gone missing from the area.
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Nithari killings: Surendra Koli, Moninder Pandher acquitted in many cases, death penalty overturned
Uttar Pradesh | Oct 16, 2023, 12:52 PM ISTA series of gruesome murders of young children and women were reported, sending shockwaves throughout the region. The duo, Surendra Koli and Moninder Singh Pandher, were accused of being the perpetrators behind these heinous acts.
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Is hanging painful, asks jittery Nithari butcher Koli
India | Sep 11, 2014, 05:05 PM ISTMeerut (Uttar Pradesh): Nithari killer Surendra Koli is spending anxious last days in prison here as he awaits the hangman's noose, reads religious books, and asks officials whether hanging is "painful".Having missed the noose by
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President rejects mercy petitions of Surendra Koli, 5 others
India | Jul 20, 2014, 09:46 AM ISTNew Delhi: Mercy petitions of six death row convicts including Surendra Koli, found guilty in the sensational Nithari serial rapes and killings, have been rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee. Besides Koli, mercy pleas of Renukabai
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Home Ministry rejects mercy petitions of Koli, 4 others
India | Jun 18, 2014, 08:48 PM ISTNew Delhi: Mercy petitions of five death row convicts including Surendra Koli, who was found guilty in the sensational Nithari serial rapes and killings, were today rejected by the Home Ministry.Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh
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Nithari Killings: CBI Shielding Pandher, Koli Tells Court
India | Jul 13, 2011, 01:58 PM ISTGhaziabad, July 13 : Surendra Koli, the prime accused in the macabre Nithari serial killings, on Tuesday told a special court here that CBI “falsely” implicated him in the case relating to the killing of