Year 2006
– 29th December: The house owner Maninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help, Surender Koli were arrested.
-30th December: Skeletal remains of children were found in the drain.
-31st December: Two constables were suspended.
Year 2007
-1st January: Clashes between villagers and the police over the murders. Police questioned Pandher’s relatives in Chandigarh.
-5th January: UP police took the accused for a comprehensive narco-analysis test in Gandhinagar.
-10th January: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) took charge of the case.
-11th January: The first CBI team arrived to begin investigations. Thirty more bones were recovered near the house.
-12th January: The CBI interrogated Maninder Singh Pandher and Surender Koli.
-20th January: The UP government submitted a report to the National Human Rights Commission.
-8th February: The special CBI court sent Pandher and Koli to CBI custody for 14 days.
-12th February: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) formed a committee to study the case.
-28th February and 1st March: Surender Koli gave confessional statements at Agra’s Central Forensic Science Laboratory, and the statements were videotaped.
-22nd May: The CBI filed the first chargesheet in the Ghaziabad court. Mild charges were framed against Pandher and serious ones against Koli.
Year 2008
-1st May: The fathers of three victims requested the CBI to drop charges against Pandher regarding murder and abduction.
-11th May: The Ghaziabad court ordered the CBI to investigate Pandher’s role in the murders.
-6th September: Remains of a girl who had fallen victim to the Nithari killings were found in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal.
-1st November: The Supreme Court issued a notice to the CBI regarding allegations of trying to save Pandher.
-13th December: The Special CBI court filed charges against Maninder Singh Pandher for the rape and murder of two minors.
Year 2009
-12th February: The special CBI court declared Pandher and Koli guilty of rape and murder.
-13th February: Pandher and Koli were sentenced to death for the rape and murder of Rimpa Haldar, one of the 19 cases.
-11th September: The Supreme Court stayed the execution of Koli’s death sentence.
Year 2010
-7th January: The Supreme Court imposed a stay on Koli’s death sentence.
Year 2014
-20th July: Surinder Koli and the death penalty of five others were commuted to life imprisonment by President Pranab Mukherjee.
-8th September: A court issued a stay order on Koli’s hanging at 1 AM on the same day that the execution was scheduled. The court noted that the petition had been filed before the court in the wee hours and the order was passed at 1:40 AM. Information about the order was conveyed to the concerned jail authorities.
Koli was to be hanged in Meerut jail on September 12, where he was kept in a high-security barrack.
-7th September: The Supreme Court commuted the death penalty of Koli to life imprisonment.
-12th September: The High Court had placed an interim stay on Koli’s hanging. The stay was extended until October 29, and on October 28, a bench of three judges heard the petition seeking a review. The court referred to the five bullet points and asked the lawyer for Koli, Indira Jaising, to file a review petition.
Year 2017
-22nd July: The CBI court found businessman Maninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help, Surinder Koli, guilty and announced that the sentence would be pronounced on July 24.
-24th July: The CBI court declared Surinder Koli and Maninder Singh Pandher guilty of the murder and attempted rape of Pinki Sarkar, a 20-year-old. This is the eighth case of 16 murder cases for which a decision has been made.
Top of Form
