The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the death sentence of Surinder Koli, convicted in February last year of raping and killing 14-year-old Rimpa Haldar in Nithari village in Noida near the national capital.

Haldar was one of the 19 young women and children from Nithari whose body parts were found in a drain behind the bungalow of Koli's employer Moninder Singh Pandher in December 2006.