Noida, September 11: Locals today staged a protest outside Moninder Singh Pandher’s residence here after the Allahabad High Court acquitted the businessman in one of the Nithari serial killing cases.
The High Court acquitted Pandher but upheld the death sentence of co-accused and his servant Surinder Koli in the rape and murder of 14-year-old Rimpa Halder, one of the victims of the infamous serial killings in Nithari in 2007.
Locals gathered in front of house no. D-45 in Sector 31 of Noida soon after the verdict was pronounced and shouted slogans against police and CBI. Rimpa’s mother Dolly Halder was also among the protestors.
Police have been deployed near Pandher’s residence, which is close to Nithari village, to avoid any untoward incidents, a senior police officer said.
–PTI