NEW DELHI: Surinder Koli , the accused in the 2006 Nithari serial killings and sentenced to death in 13 murder cases, is set to walk free after 19 years in prison, having narrowly escaped execution twice. Convicted by the trial court and with his appeals and review pleas dismissed by the Allahabad High Court and the Supreme Court, Koli finally secured relief through a curative petition—the final judicial remedy available to an accused seeking justice.

HC acquitted Surinder Koli in 12 cases. The Rimpa Haldar case, in which Koli’s death sentence was earlier commuted to a life term by high court in 2015, was the one that kept him in jail. SC's ruling on November 11 acquitted him in this case too. The 13 lives of Surinder Koli: Who is Surinder Koli? Koli was

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