Ghaziabad (TIP): In a fresh development in Nithari serial murder cases, Ghaziabad sessions court has issued death warrant against Surinder Koli in connection with the brutal killing of 14-year-old Rimpa Halder. CBI sources saidthat a death warrant was issued by Additional sessions Judge Atul Kumar Gupta in the name of Koli that he should be hanged to death after the convict exhausted all his legal remedies in this case.

The death warrant has been sent to the Uttar Pradesh government for making necessary preparations for execution of 42-year-old Koli, who has been sentenced to death in four other cases. Koli has been lodged in a Ghaziabad jail. The sources said the court had fixed September 12 as the date of hanging but the final date can be reworked with the UP administration.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had earlier recommended to President Pranab Mukherjee that Koli’s mercy plea be rejected barely a month after he had taken over as the minister. The President, exercising his powers, rejected the mercy petition on July 27, thereby paving the way for the judicial process to commence for hanging of Koli. It was not immediately clear whether Koli would be hanged as already 11 cases of murder were pending against him. CBI had filed chargesheet against him in 16 cases where he had allegedly killed children after sexually abusing them.