Overview

• Koli’s curative petition was heard by a bench of CJI B. R. Gavai and Justices Surya Kant and Vikram Nath, which said the matter “deserves to be allowed.”
• The court questioned the lone conviction’s basis in a custodial confession and the recovery of a kitchen knife from a lane behind his house.
• Judges noted an anomaly given that similar evidence underpinned 12 other cases in which Koli has already been acquitted.
• If the curative plea is allowed, Koli will be released because all other Nithari-related cases against him stand closed in his favor.
• On July 30, the Supreme Court dismissed 14 appeals by the CBI and some victims’ families and left intact the Allahabad High Court’s October 2023 acquittals.