The Supreme Court has confirmed the death penalty awarded to Surinder Singh Koli in Nithari killings case near NOIDA. The apex court described the Killings by Koli as horrifying and barbaric. Koli had approached the apex court after he was sentenced to death by the trial court and the Allahabad High Court in the Rimpa Haldar case, one of the children killed in Noida's Nithari village. Koli, the domestic help of Pandher, has been convicted for raping and killing 14-year-old Rimpa Haldar.The apex court has kept pending the appeal by the Central Bureau of Investigation against the acquittal of businessman Moninder Singh Pandher in the case.The Nithari killings pertain to the horrific discovery in December 2009 of body parts being found in a drain behind the residence of Koli's employer Moninder Singh Pandher. The remains were found to be of 19 young women and children from the nearby Nithari village allegedly raped and killed in the Pandher residence.