MEERUT: A day after the Ghaziabad sessions court issued a death warrant against Surinder Koli , the convict in the infamous Nithari killings, a decision has been passed to hang him in Meerut's Chaudhary Charan Singh district jail, reliable sources told TOI on Thursday.Koli was on Thursday evening shifted to the Meerut jail and the execution, when it comes, follows the hanging here 39 years ago of one Karan Singh of Muzaffarnagar, said SHM Rizvi, senior superintendent at the CCS district jail.On Wednesday, the Ghaziabad sessions court had issued a death warrant against Koli in connection with the brutal killing of 14-year-old Rimpa Halder. The warrant was issued by additional sessions judge Atul Kumar Gupta after the convict exhausted all his legal remedies in the case. Though sources said that the court had fixed the date of execution as September 12, "it might change as per instructions of the UP administration".However, while preparations are underway to hang Koli on September 12, he may earn a reprieve because of the recent Supreme Court verdict under which he is entitled to file a fresh review petition. This is because the September 2 judgment stipulated that if any death row convict's review petition had been dismissed in the chambers of judges, it would have to be taken up again in the open court where the defense counsel would get an opportunity to present arguments.Another legal uncertainty is that Koli's execution at this juncture for the murder of Rimpa Halder may mean that in the 15 other equally heinous cases related to Nithari, there may be no justice or closure for the affected families as he is the main accused in those cases, too, and most of them are still pending trial.From 1951 to 1975, 17 executions have taken place in the Meerut jail. "Generally, the jail authorities have to call the hangman from another city, in case of unavailability of one here. But we have a hangman, named Pawan, who is a resident of Meerut. He will be involved in this execution, too," said Rizvi.The cell, which is dedicated to execution will be reconstructed a little, as one of the pillars is in a weak condition, sources said.Pawan, though, will be executing someone for the first time. The profession of hangman has been practiced by his father and grandfather Mammu and Kallu before him. "My father executed 12 convicts, while my grandfather executed Satvant Singh and Kehar Singh, who killed former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi," said Pawan.According to official sources, the first execution in Meerut jail took place in 1951, when Roop Kishore, a resident of Kashipur (now in Uttarakhand), was executed.CBI had filed a chargesheet against the 42-year-old Koli in 16 cases where he had allegedly killed children after sexually abusing them.The case, which came to light in December 2006, after a missing girl was found murdered, led to further investigations and revelation of the fact that Koli was involved in murdering other children, whose skeletal remains were recovered from a drain adjacent to the house where the accused was working as a domestic servant.SSP Onkar Singh said, "If at all the jail authorities would require police officials for the security of Koli once he arrives in the city, we will assist them in the desired manner."