‘No one came from outside, Talwar only suspect in Aarushi murder’

Agencies

Ghaziabad, 08 February 2011: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday went on the offensive against the Talwar couple in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case, clearly hinting at the father’s hand in the slain teenager’s death.

 

During a hearing at the Special CBI Court here, the agency clearly stated that it doesn’t suspect anyone other than Dr Rajesh Talwar in the murder case of her daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj.

 

The CBI also told the court that at the time of the murder, only the Talwar couple were present at their home and no one else came from outside.

 

The agency however told the court that it was unable to file the chargesheet as it was finding it difficult to connect the evidence collected so far.  The CBI also stated that it had no direct proof but only circumstantial evidence linking Rajesh Talwar to her daughter’s murder.

 

The investigating agency made the remarks while putting forth its opinion on the protest petition filed by the slain teenager’s family against its closure report.

 

Meanwhile, the local police have put in place an elaborate security in the court premises following an attack on Aarushi’s father during the last hearing on January 25.

 

Utsav Sharma, a resident of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, who had earlier stabbed former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, a convict in the Ruchika molestation case, had attacked Talwar with a cleaver. The incident had sent shockwaves among the district police and those in the court premises.

 

Though the court was scheduled to hear the matter on the same day post lunch, the attack forced the court to defer the matter till February 8.

 

The parents in the petition have alleged that there were "deliberate lapses" in the investigation besides noticeable non-mentioning of material pieces of evidence.

 

They have also pleaded that further investigation should be ordered into the case "so that the culprits involved in this heinous crime are apprehended, and investigated against and brought to trial."

 

In the petition, the Talwars have given the sequence of events during the night of May 15 when the teenager was murdered and during subsequent days as per their memory.

 

"The Petitioner submits that the conclusions arrived at by the Central Bureau of Investigation on several material facts, issues and circumstances are manifestly erroneous and are based on presumptions, conjectures and surmises, not substantiated or supported by true and actual facts.

 

"There are deliberate lapses noticed by the Petitioner, besides noticeable non-mentioning of material pieces of evidence collected during the investigation of the case, which had lead to the filing of this petition," the petition said.

 

14-year-old Aarushi was found murdered at her residence in 2008. The body of their domestic help Hemraj was found on the terrace of the house later.