After nearly two decades, the prime accused in the Nithari serial killings case, Surendra Koli, who was convicted by several courts in 13 cases, was acquitted by the Supreme Court in the last case against him and is set to walk free, ending a saga of sheer depravity.

The skeletal remains of several missing children and women were found in a drain behind the house of horrors in Noida’s Nithari area in 2007. Koli worked at the house as domestic help. The owner of the house, Moninder Singh Pandher, was also arrested and convicted but was acquitted for lack of evidence.

Pulling up investigating agencies for tardy evidence gathering and negligence, the top court maintained that convictions, particularly in cases involving capital punishment, cannot rest on mere ‘conjecture’ and that due proce

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