Security Code: ’Allahabad High Court’s Nithari judgment shows Indian criminal justice’s rotted beyond repair’

For more than a decade, India has reviled alleged Nithari killer Surinder Koli as a rapist, murderer and cannibal. The Allahabad High Court, though, has now determined the evidence against consisted of little but a confession obtained through torture, and some pseudoscientific tests.The Nithari killings is just the latest in a long series of high-profile cases that demand thorough reinvestigation to establish what went wrong.