Notorious Serial Killer Moninder Singh Pandher To Be Hanged On 2 Feb
Supreme Court Dismisses His Review Petition
Gruesome Murders Of 19 Children, Women In 2006
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the review petition filed by Moninder Singh Pandher, a serial killer who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of 19 children and women in Noida and its surrounding areas in 2006, clearing the decks for his hanging on February 2.
A bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud dismissed the plea after taking note of the fact that Pandher's counsel had chosen not to press the petition.
On December 16 last year, the top court had dismissed Pandher's curative petition, the last legal remedy available to a convict, against the death sentence awarded to him by the Allahabad High Court in 2017.
Pandher was arrested in December 2006 after the Noida police discovered the remains of several victims, including children, from a drain near his house in Nithari village.
The CBI probe revealed that Pandher, along with his domestic help Surender Koli, had killed at least 19 children and women over a period of several months.
Pandher, who was sentenced to death in 2017 by the Allahabad High Court, has been languishing on death row in Meerut jail since then.
Koli, who was also sentenced to death by the Allahabad High Court, was hanged in Meerut jail in 2019.
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