New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) Surendra Koli, a man who was given the sobriquet “Butcher of Nithari”, was on Tuesday set free by the Supreme Court, which allowed his curative petition, giving a formal closure to a saga of botched-up probe and media trial built on theories of cannibalism.

A bench comprising Chief Justice B.R. Gavai and Justices Surya Kant and Vikram Nath set free the suspect, who lived in Nithari village in Noida. With this, Koli has emerged clean despite facing 19 criminal cases, along with his now-acquitted employer, Mohinder Singh Pandher.

Reading out the bench’s verdict, Justice Vikram Nath said, “The curative petition is allowed.”

Koli, 53, will now walk out of jail as he has already been acquitted in all other cases.

The 2006 Nithari killings captured public attention a

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