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Nithari case: Timeline
Following is the chronology of events in the gruesome Nithari serial killings of children and girls.
Following is the chronology of events in the gruesome Nithari serial killings of children and girls.
December 29, 2006: Nithari Killings came to light with the Discovery of eight skeletal remains of Children from the drain of a house in Nithari, Noida. Two suspects -- owner of The house Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help Surinder Koli arrested.
December 30: More skeletons tumble out of the drainage.
December 31: Two beat constables suspended as political Pressure starts building up.
January 05, 2007: Accused Pandher and Koli taken to Gandhinagar for extensive narco-analysis Test by Uttar Pradesh police.
January 10: CBI takes over investigations in the case.
January 11: First CBI team visits Nithari to initiate Probe in the case. Thirty more bones found Near Pandher's house.
January 12: Pandher and Koli quizzed by CBI.
January 20: UP government files report to NHRC.
February 8: Special CBI court sends Pandher and Koli to 14 days of CBI custody.
February 13, 2009: Koli was convicted and sentenced to death by a special CBI court on for the rape and murder of 14-year-old Rimpa Haldar, one of the several alleged victims of the alleged grisly killings in Nithari in 2007.
September: Pandher and Koli were sentenced to death by the trial court, the Allahabad High Court in acquitted Pandher of the crime, but confirmed Koli's death sentence.
January 7, 2010: The Supreme Court today stayed the death sentence of Surinder Koli, prime accused in the Nithari serial killings case and domestic help of businessmen Moninder Singh Pandher.
