The Supreme Court of India, in a judgment delivered on November 11, 2025, exercised its exceptional curative jurisdiction to acquit Surendra Koli in one of the Nithari serial murder cases (the Rimpa Haldar case). The Court, in Curative Petition (Crl.) No. @Diary No. 49297 of 2025, set aside its own previous judgments, holding that a “manifest miscarriage of justice” had occurred.

The core legal issue was that Koli’s conviction in this case stood on the exact same evidentiary foundation—a confessional statement and alleged recoveries—that had been rejected as “legally unreliable” and “inadmissible” in twelve other companion cases, in which Koli had been acquitted.

The judgment, delivered by a bench comprising Chief Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai, Justice Surya Kant, and Justice Vikram

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