Koli gets death in Nithari rape & murder case

Surender Koli, the key accused in the sensational 2006 Nithari killings, was on Monday awarded fifth death sentence by a special CBI court which found him guilty of rape and murder of a five-year-old girl named Choti Payal.

Announcing the judgement special Judge S Lal observed that the victim had gone missing from outside the house of Koli’s employer Moninder Singh Pandher at Sector 31 in Noida in 2005 and her father had filed complaint with the local police.