Meerut: In a fresh development in Nithari serial murder case, the Supreme Court stayed the execution of death sentence awarded to Nithari rapist-cum-serial killer Surinder Koli for one week.
SHM Rizvi, Superintendent, Meerut Jail, confirmed that the jail administration has received a copy of stay order today morning.
“We have received a stay order stating that the execution of death sentence awarded to Surinder Koli should be put on hold for one week. A copy of the stay order was received at 4:15 am today via DM. We will abide by the order,” he said.
Koli, who was slated to be hanged here on September 12, was placed in a high-security barrack in Meerut Jail since a warrant was issued on Wednesday by Ghaziabad's Additional Sessions Judge Atul Kumar Gupta in the name of 42-year-old that he should be hanged to death after the convict exhausted all his legal remedies in this case.
Rizvi said that Koli will be kept under CCTV surveillance till a day before his hanging.
Koli will be the 18th criminal to be hanged in the Meerut jail.
Koli has been sentenced to death in connection with the killing of Rimpa Halder and in four other cases.
