Surendra Koli, accused in the 2006 Nithari serial killings, walked out of Gautam Budhh Nagar’s Luksar Jail after the Supreme Court acquitted him in last of the 13 cases pertailing to the crime, allowing his curative petition challenging his conviction. Surendra Koli walked out of the Luksar Jail in Greater Noida on Wednesday after the Supreme Court of India acquitted him in last case in Noida, India, on Wednesday, November 12, 2025. (Sunil Ghosh/Hindustan Times) Surendra Koli’s lawyer, Payoshi Roy, said the verdict highlighted serious flaws in India’s criminal justice system. “This case exposes the deep fissures in our criminal justice. It reveals how easy it is to fabricate evidence and falsely implicate a poor man and numb judicial scrutiny by making sensational claims of cannibalism. Koli was almost executed twice,” said Koli’s lawyer. “Had he been executed we would have never learnt the truth of his innocence. This judgment should make us rethink the death penalty in India and how marginalized and impoverished people are treated within the criminal justice system,” Roy added. What …