New Delhi, Nov. 12 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday acquitted Surendra Koli in the last of 13 criminal cases linked to the Nithari killings, holding that his conviction in this solitary case could not stand when he had already been acquitted in 12 others arising from the same set of facts and evidence. The court said retaining one conviction amid a series of reversals would be "inimical to the integrity of adjudication." Koli, who was serving a life term, was ordered to be released "forthwith, if not wanted in any other case". The Nithari killings, which came to light in 2006, horrified the nation after skeletal remains of several children were found in a drain behind the Noida home of businessman Moninder Singh Pandher, where Koli worked as...