Surendra Koli found dead: Why the Nithari killings case against him collapsed
Surendra Koli, acquitted in the 2006 Nithari serial case in 2025, was discovered dead at his tea stall in Haridwar on Friday, according to police. Koli had relocated to the Uttarakhand city for several months. Accused in over a dozen cases of rape and murder of women and children, Koli was released from Kasna jail in Greater Noida in November last year after the Supreme Court overturned his rape and murder conviction of a teenage girl.
This was his 19th year in jail for the Nithari serial killings. The rape-murder case marked the culmination of numerous other cases stemming from the Nithari murders. His former employer, Moninder Singh Pandher, whose residence contained the discovered skeletal remains, was acquitted in 2023.
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