Nithari killings: Serial killer Surender Koli gets death penalty for the fifth time

Nithari serial killer Surender Koli was today sentenced to death for rape and murder of five-year-old girl by a Special CBI court here, the fifth case in which he has been awarded capital punishment after the horrific crimes came to light in 2006.

Special CBI Judge S Lal found Koli, 40, guilty of kidnapping, rape and murder of "Chhoti Kavita" (assumed identity given by the court) besides destruction of evidence and sentenced him to death.

Koli was given death sentence for murder, life-sentence for abduction, ten year rigorous imprisonment for rape and seven years rigorous imprisonment for destruction of evidence.

The victim had gone missing from outside the house of Koli's employer Moninder Singh Pandher at Sector 31 in Noida in 2005 after which her father had filed complaint with the local police.