Surendra Koli, acquitted in the Nithari killings, was found dead in his Haridwar tea shop, suspected suicide, police say

The 2006 Nithari killings grabbed national and international headlines after the discovery of children's skeletal remains in a drain behind the house of Moninder Singh Pandher, Surendra Koli's employer, in Noida’s Nithari village. It remains one of India's biggest unsolved murder cases.

Surendra Koli, acquitted in the Nithari killings, was found dead in his Haridwar tea shop, suspected suicide, police say

Haridwar: Surendra Koli, who was accused and later acquitted in the infamous Nithari killings case, has allegedly died by suicide in Haridwar on Friday.

HARIDWAR, Sept 18: Surinder Koli, who was acquitted by the Supreme Court in the Nithari killings case, was found dead under suspicious circumstances at a rented tea stall in Haridwar, with police investigating the incident from all angles. According to police, Koli was found hanging from a rope inside the tea stall located opposite Lalmata […]

Surendra Koli came within hours of the gallows in 2014 before the Supreme Court stayed his hanging. Cleared of all charges after nearly 19 years behind bars, he was found hanging near the Haridwar tea stall he ran less than a year after walking free. Here's Koli's journey from Nithari's D-5 bungalow to death row to his end at a tea stall in Haridwar.

A Nithari victim's father has questioned the preliminary suicide theory and alleged that Surendra Koli was killed as police investigate the circumstances of his death.

Surinder Koli, who was once labelled as the 'monster of Nithari', was found dead under suspicious circumstances in Haridwar.

Surendra Koli, the domestic help acquitted in the 2006 Nithari killings after spending 18 years in prison, allegedly died by suicide in Haridwar.  

From facing execution in Meerut jail to Supreme Court acquittal and running a tea stall in Haridwar, here is the tragic and complex legal saga of Nithari accused Surendra Koli.  

Surendra Koli, who was acquitted last year in the infamous 2006 Nithari serial killings, was found dead in Haridwar. It has reopened a haunting question that has lingered for two decades: Who killed Nithari's children?