Revisiting The 2006 Nithari Serial Murders That Sent Shockwaves Across The Country
1 year, 2 months ago

Revisiting The 2006 Nithari Serial Murders That Sent Shockwaves Across The Country

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One of the most sensational cases that sent shockwaves across the country, the 2006 Nithari serial murder case is making headlines again after the recent Allahabad High Court judgment. A small village adjacent to the national capital, Nithari, hit the headlines after two girls went missing and human skeletons were found near D-5 in Noida’s Sector-31, between 2005 and 2006, which belonged to Pandher. Image Source: Getty Images Case Of Missing Girl Led To Discovery Of Human Skeletons It was the year 2006, when a woman named Payal arrived at Pandher’s bungalow on a rickshaw. Image Source: Getty Images In its order last week, the High Court observed that the Central Bureau of Investigation, which investigated the case, did not probe the organ trading angle while underlining Chowdhury's case.

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Nithari Killings | Supreme Court Posts CBI's Appeals Against Acquittal Of Surendra Koli For Final Hearing In March
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Nithari Killings | Supreme Court Posts CBI's Appeals Against Acquittal Of Surendra Koli For Final Hearing In March

Live Law  

The Supreme Court today posted for final hearing the pleas challenging acquittal of Surendra Koli, one of the accused in Noida serial murder cases of 2005-2006. To recap, the Nithari killings came to light in December 2006 when skeletal remains of several children/women were recovered from a drain behind businessman Moninder Singh Pandher's house in Noida's Nithari. Raising questions regarding …

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India Today  

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Live Mint  

The case of Nimisha Priya has again come to light after Yemen Yemen President Rashad al-Alimi on Monday approved the death sentence for her. After this, a statement from the Ministry of External Affairs official spokesperson, Randhir Jaiswa came on the case wherein he said that “We are aware of the sentencing of Nimisha Priya in Yemen. Nimisha Priya has …

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Parents blame police for delayed action in daughter’s murder at Shil Phata Temple

Hindustan Times  

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'Landlord Threw Us Out of House, Relatives Stopped Taking Calls': Nithari Killer's Brother Narrates Ordeals
1 year, 2 months ago

'Landlord Threw Us Out of House, Relatives Stopped Taking Calls': Nithari Killer's Brother Narrates Ordeals

News 18  

The horrific details of the infamous Nithari killings case shook the entire country when the incident first came to light in 2006 but for the family of the prime accused Surendra Koli, the ordeals haven’t come to an end even after 17 years of the crime. While speaking to AajTak.in, Koli’s brother said that the family left cooking onion and …

Nithari killings: Noida residents' body to move SC against Allahabad HC order
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Nithari killings: Noida residents' body to move SC against Allahabad HC order

The Hindu  

A residents' body in Noida on October 23 said it will move the Supreme Court against the Allahabad High Court's recent order acquitting domestic help Surendra Koli and his employer Moninder Singh Pandher in the 2006 Nithari serial killings. The District Development Residents Welfare Association is consulting legal experts and has met the victim families to take the case further. …

Nithari fiasco: The Hindu Editorial on the case being a scathing indictment of investigators
1 year, 2 months ago

Nithari fiasco: The Hindu Editorial on the case being a scathing indictment of investigators

The Hindu  

The Allahabad High Court verdict acquitting the two men accused of killing girls and young women at Nithari village in Noida near Delhi is a scathing indictment of how investigators can leverage popular revulsion against the alleged perpetrators to build a case without credible evidence. It is incredible that a high-profile case, in which the police believed they had solved …

DC Edit | Nithari: Justice not delivered
1 year, 2 months ago

DC Edit | Nithari: Justice not delivered

Deccan Chronicle  

India is a poor country not because it has no resources but because a large proportion of the people who are tasked with managing those resources give their jobs the short shrift despite elaborate procedure and infrastructure built over years. Every sensible Indian would share the anguish expressed by the Allahabad high court at the tardy investigation in the Nithari …

Nithari Murder ‘Mystery’: If Pandher, Koli Didn’t, Then Who Killed Our Kids, Ask Kin
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Nithari Murder ‘Mystery’: If Pandher, Koli Didn’t, Then Who Killed Our Kids, Ask Kin

News 18  

Jyoti would have been 27-year-old today, probably a doctor, who would have lifted her family out of poverty. As the Allahabad High Court on Monday set aside the death sentences awarded to Surendra Koli and Moninder Singh Pandher, the prime accused in the Nithari killings, the families hope that “now God will give them justice". ‘JYOTI WAS THE SMARTEST IN …

‘Nithari murder probe botched up, public trust betrayed’: Allahabad HC’s top 6 quotes
1 year, 2 months ago

‘Nithari murder probe botched up, public trust betrayed’: Allahabad HC’s top 6 quotes

Hindustan Times  

PRAYAGRAJ: In a 308-page verdict on Monday that acquitted Surendra Koli and his employer Moninder Singh Pandher for the Nithari serial murders, a two-judge bench of justices Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Syed Aftab Husain Rizvi came down heavily on the investigating agencies for a “botched up” investigation and betraying public trust. Surender Koli, who was sentenced to death has been …

Surendra Koli, sentenced to death for Nithari horror, acquitted by Allahabad HC
1 year, 2 months ago

Surendra Koli, sentenced to death for Nithari horror, acquitted by Allahabad HC

Hindustan Times  

PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad high court on Monday acquitted Surinder Koli and his employer Moninder Singh Pandher in the 2005-2006 Noida serial murders, also known as the Nithari case, in which he had been sentenced to death. The CBI filed charge sheets in 16 Nithari cases and Koli was named in all for murder, destruction of evidence and rape attempt Koli …

Nithari killings: Allahabad high court acquits prime accused Surendra Koli
1 year, 2 months ago

Nithari killings: Allahabad high court acquits prime accused Surendra Koli

Hindustan Times  

The Allahabad High Court on Monday acquitted key accused Surendra Koli and his co-accused Moninder Singh Pandher in the Nithari murder case. A bench of Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Syed Aftab Husain Rizvi found Koli innocent in a series of twelve cases for which he had previously been awarded the death penalty and Pandher in two cases in …

BJP Leader Murder Case: NIA Raids Four Places In Puducherry, Tamil Nadu
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BJP Leader Murder Case: NIA Raids Four Places In Puducherry, Tamil Nadu

ABP News  

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Hyderabad Dalit murder case: Time for liberal Muslims to shun silence on Nagaraju’s dastardly killing
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Firstpost  

Saner elements among Muslims should take adequate steps to thwart attempts by fundamentalists to hijack the entire community for their divisive agenda “Sir, why is it that all terrorists are Muslims?” While I was teaching at Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi, a Class XI student asked me this question during a discussion on current events in the aftermath of …

Murder and blood money: The case of Nimisha Priya, the Kerala nurse on death row in Yemen
2 years, 9 months ago

Murder and blood money: The case of Nimisha Priya, the Kerala nurse on death row in Yemen

Firstpost  

The Palakkad-based nurse has been in prison since 2017 for the murder of Yemeni national Talal Abdo Mahdi. While the Indian government is doing its best to secure her release, an organisation has begun collecting funds to give as blood money to Talal’s family Nimisha Priya, lodged in a prison in Yemen since 2020, is counting the days to her …

Nithari Killings: Allahabad HC Slams CBI For Failure To Produce Autopsy Reports In Surendra Koli's Appeal Against Death Penalty
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Nithari Killings: Allahabad HC Slams CBI For Failure To Produce Autopsy Reports In Surendra Koli's Appeal Against Death Penalty

Live Law  

The Allahabad High Court today slammed the Central Bureau of Investigation for its failure to produce the post mortem reports of the victims of the Nithari case. Essentially, the Bench of Justice Manoj Misra and Justice Sameer Jain was hearing an appeal filed by accused Surinder Koli against his conviction and sentence of the death. Essentially, the Bench of Justice …

Depose by 10 Dec: HC to Girls ‘Missing’ from Nithyananda Ashram
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The Quint  

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