On November 12, Surinder Koli was acquitted by the Supreme Court in the last of the 16 cases linked to the 2006 Nithari killings. On December 29, 2006, skeletal remains of several children were discovered from a drain behind the house of a businessman, Mohinder Singh Pandher, at Nithari in Noida. The silence following his release suggests a deep unease: not because guilt was disproved with precision, but because the evidence was tainted or insufficiently collected.
Double injustice
The problem becomes even more glaring when we recall that Mohinder Singh Pandher, the owner of the ho
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