Koli files mercy petition

CBI court had ordered his hanging between May 24 and May 31 in the 2006 murders

Nithari killing convict Surender Koli has filed a mercy petition before President Pratibha Patil. He has filed the petition after his conviction by a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court was upheld by the Supreme Court. The apex court had termed the case as 'horrifying' and 'barbaric'.


Guilty: Surender Koli. file pic

The CBI court had ordered the hanging of Koli between May 24 and May 31 in the 2006 killings. The Supreme Court on February 15 upheld the sentence. Kohli was handed the death sentence by the Allahabad High Court in the murder case of 14-year-old Rimpa Haldar.

Confirming the High Court verdict, the apex court bench of Justice Markandey Katju and Justice Gyan Sudha Misra described the killing as 'horrifying and barbaric'. The court noted that Koli, after luring the female victims to his employer Moninder Singh Pandher's house in Noida, strangulated them and tried to have sex with their bodies. Thereafter, he cut the corpses into pieces, cooked some of them and ate them.