New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to transfer the Nithari serial killing case from the Ghaziabad court to Delhi.
On March 4, co-accused in the case, Surinder Koli was sent to 14 days judicial remand and taken to Ghaziabad district jail Dasna.
The other accused, Koli’s boss, Moninder Singh Pandher, had already been sent to jail on 14 days judicial remand on March 2 by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Magistrate Sapna Mishra.
On March 1, Koli admitted to a court that he had raped minor girls and women in Nithari.
In a written submission before a court in Delhi, Koli said he wanted to confess and unburden his confession. The court ordered that Koli’s statement be recorded on video
Koli and are accused of raping and murdering children and women in their bungalow near Nithari village.
The CBI, which is handling the probe, has till now found the bodies of four women and 15 children near Pandher’s bungalow.
The case was shifted to the Patiala House Courts in Delhi after a mob attacked the accused in a Ghaziabad court, which was supposed to handle the trial.
The Delhi court has appointed three lawyers to defend Koli, who is suspected to have chopped his victims into pieces after strangling them.
The court had difficultly in this as at least two lawyers refused to take up the case. A woman lawyer refused to defend him, saying she feared a threat to her life.
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