New Delhi: Families of the Nithari serial killing victims have reacted with disbelief and anger after the Supreme Court on Tuesday acquitted Surendra Koli, the domestic help accused in the 2006 Noida serial murders, in the last pending case against him.

“Was there a ghost who killed our kids? If Koli and Pandher are innocent, who killed them?” asked the father of one victim, struggling to understand the verdict that, he said, had reopened old wounds and left them without answers even after nearly two decades. ADVERTISEMENT

Another bereaved mother said she could not accept that both the accused were being declared innocent. She recalled how the men were accused of killing and mutilating children, adding that “law may have freed them, but God won’t.”

The Supreme Court bench, led by Chief

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