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Victims' kin stage protest at Nithari

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They accuse CBI of trying to shield Moninder by framing his domestic help

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EXPRESSING APPREHENSIONS: Parents and relatives of missing children demonstrating outside the house of Moninder Singh Pandher, prime accused in the Nithari serial killings case, at Nithari in Noida on Friday.

NOIDA : Relatives of missing and murdered children staged a violent protest outside the house of the prime accused Moninder Singh at Nithari here on Friday, accusing the Central Bureau of Investigation of trying to shield him by framing his domestic help Surinder Koli.

The protesters threw stones at the house and tried to set it ablaze, and burnt effigies of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and the two accused. They demanded an audience with CBI Director Vijay Shankar and raised slogans against the Centre. They dispersed only after Senior Superintendent of Police Rajiv Sabharwal reached the spot and promised them that he would look into their grievances.

"We were slated to hold a peaceful march carrying banners to protest against the delay in the case and attempts to shield Moninder. But when we reached near his house, we lost our cool and resorted to stone throwing," said Ramkishen Dhamuk, whose three-year-old son Harsh is said to be the youngest victim.

"Both the accused confessed to having killed our children when we met them in December last after their arrest. And now the CBI wants to know whether there is any eyewitness to the crime. It is the poor who lost their children and those being punished are also poor. A blatant attempt is being made to protect Moninder Singh," said Jhabbu Lal, father of another victim.

The victims' families also complained that they were yet to get possession of the residential plots and jobs promised by the Uttar Pradesh Government.

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