New Delhi, July 30 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the appeals of the Central Bureau of Investigation, Uttar Pradesh government and the victims' families against the acquittal of Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help, Surendra Koli, by the Allahabad High Court in the 2006 Nithari serial killings case.

A bench of Chief Justice of India BR Gavai and Justices Satish Chandra Sharma and K Vinod Chandran upheld the Allahabad High Court order of October 16, 2023, which had acquitted Pandher and Koli.

Both Koli and Pandher were accused of rape and murder, mostly of children in the neighbourhood of Noida in 2005-06.

In 2024, the top court had agreed to examine separate pleas filed by the CBI, UP government and Pappu Lal, fath...