Nithari killings: Noida residents' body to move SC against Allahabad HC order
The HinduA 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. Editorial |Nithari fiasco: On the case being a scathing indictment of investigators "We first thought of extending financial assistance to the victim families but after discussions it was decided that we will take up the case and bear the legal expenses of the case in the Supreme Court," DDRWA president N P Singh told PTI. The Allahabad High Court on October 16 acquitted him and his domestic help Koli in the case after noting that the prosecution had failed to prove guilt "beyond reasonable doubt" and that the investigation was botched up.