Born May 24th 1993, Arushi Talwar - to an upper middle class couple; Nupur & Rajesh Talwar- both dentist running their own clinic....
Arushi, all of 14 years old and the sweetheart of dear and near... orkut, movies, music, outings, crushes...in short a normal teenager of the 21st century....
May 16th 2008, soaked in blood, throat slit Arushi was found dead in her bedroom by her family. The Police were quick to accuse missing male serven Hemraj for her death.
Had they conducted their investigations properly, they would have discovered that their prime accused Hemraj, was lying in a pool of blood in the terrace above Arushi. It took them another day to examine the terrace to discover Hemraj's body....
The police were also quick to destroy any evidence that may have led to the culprit with their shoddy investigations. They allowed doctors, not specifically trained in forensic pathology, to conduct the autopsies of Hemraj and Aarushi. While it is established procedure to lift fingerprints (of both murderers and victims) from the skin of the victims, doctors entrusted with the autopsies neglected to call forensic scientists to lift said fingerprints from the cadavers. Besides that, inspite of the fact that they were dealing with a murder case they let the media roam about freely around the appartment.
Arushi was killed again when the police; in an attempt to redeem itself in front of the public, made extremely callous comments about her character... In the end of their media conference, The police were telling two different stories....
1) Arushi was deemed a boy crazy teenager who had an affair with the poor male servent of the house. Her father found them in a compromising position and killed them both in rage.
2) Arushi overheard or somehow got to know of her fathers alleged affair with family friend Duranni and killed her to silence her.
The police themselves werent sure which story they were backing...
Under Nupur's request, the CBI ( Central Bureau of Investigators) took over the murder probe on June 1st 2008.
In any case, Rajesh talwar became prime accused and was arrested on 23rd May. Krishna, his compounder at the clinic was arrested earlier on the 19th. They were both subjected to Narco-Analysis and polygraphs....
The following are important events from this case so far.... (source: wikipedia)
June 27, 2008
- Krishna taken to Talwars' residence by the CBI and thereafter produced before the special magistrate, where his bail plea was rejected once again. The Talwars' family friends Duranis' Nepalese domestic help Rajkumar arrested on the suspicion of involvement in the murder. Some washed T-shirts with faint human blood stains seized and sent for DNA matching. However, the Duranis (doctors themselves) maintained that the stains could be from the boils that Rajkumar had on his body. Rajkumar had already been subjected to polygraph test, psychological assessment, brain mapping and narco analysis at FSL, Gandhinagar from June 23 to June 26, 2008.
June 28, 2008
- Rajkumar produced before special magistrate, CBI court, Ghaziabad and is sent to police custody for 14 days. He looked unperturbed with a smile
- A leading news channel AAJ TAK,aired a news through their two journalists SHIVENDRA SRIVASTAVA and TANSEEM HAIDER, claiming that VIJAY MANDAL a new face, is also involved in noida double murder. This was the most authentic details which was aired till date. a very long show detailing step by step information about the incident. finally on July 11 CBI accepted same theory in NOIDA DOUBLE MURDER case.
- A major English daily that, apparently, on the night the murders were committed, the dentist couple Dr. Rajesh and Dr. Nupur left their flat around midnight and came back around 5 AM. They went to a high society party for which some 12 suites were booked in a posh South Delhi hotel.
July 7, 2008
- CBI came out with an official statement on their site, stating, "A section of media has reported quoting CBI sources that Dr. Rajesh Talwar and Dr. Nupur Talwar were not present in their house on the night of 15th May, 2008 and more than a dozen rooms were booked in a hotel in Delhi. It is clarified that the news item is speculative and not true. Investigation of the case is progressing diligently." Earlier, Dr. Nupur Talwar went to the CBI headquarters and refuted the allegations regarding their absence on the night of the murders. She also expressed her intentions to take legal action against the media house. However, some other TV channels debated the merits of her and CBI's affirmations in the light of glaring gaps in the Talwars' story.
- Vijay Mandal (alias Sambhu) the servant one of the neighbors of the Talwars was arrested by the CBI. Arun Kumar, Joint Director CBI, held a press conference. In the press conference he stated that the CBI was awaiting DNA matching of washed blood stains on Rajkumar's T-shirts. He confirmed the affirmation that the CBI still considered a blind case. He expressed hope that the case will be fully solved very soon and thereafter another press conference will be called. Dr. Rajesh Talwar and Krishna both appeared before special CBI court, Ghaziabad to seek bail. Their petitioned were heard and Dr. Rajesh Talwar has been decided to be released on bail, as the CBI had no evidence against him as of now. Eminent criminal lawyer R. K. Anand undertook to defend Krishna. CBI now tentatively believes some two or three domestic helps and Krishna to be the prime suspects. However, CBI just has forensic evidence which is not admissible as evidence in the court. Still, there is no recovery of the weapon of murder and the two cellphones respectively of Aarushi amd Hemraj.
July 12, 2008
- Dr. Rajesh Talwar has been freed on bail from the Dasna Jail in Ghaziabad. The news of his release brought back widespread media attention to the case. Channels did all kinds of clever programing to compete for the attention of frenzied channel surfing TV viewers. Vijay Mandal was sent to 3-days' CBI custody by the court of additional chief judicial magistrate Dinesh Kumar in Gaziabad. Vijay Mandal has been accused under 302, 201, 120(B) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
July 22, 2008
- A bench comprising of Justice Altmas Kabir and Justice Markandey Katju of the supreme court of India instructed the media to be careful. This came up during a hearing on a public interest lawsuit that has raised questions on the media coverage of the high-profile murder case. In the probe, the character of the victim's parents was hotly debated, especially of Aarushi's father Rajesh Talwar who was arrested initially as the main accused. However, no observations were made about the compounder Krishna and the other two domestic helps Rajkumar and Vijay Mandal. In this case, a distinctions seems to have appeared according to the accused persons' class and national identities.
July 25, 2008
- The Police custody of the accused Krishna, Rajkumar and Vijay Mandal was extended till August 8. The three accused were brought to the Ghaziabad court handcuffed and all linked to a rope. The judge objected to the subhuman treatment of the accused and the police officer tendered his apologies.
July 31, 2008
- A leading Hindi channel Aaj Tak aired a news report which made allegations of repeatedly drilling desirable information into one of the accused Vijay Mandal, prior to the narco-analysis tests. Further, there were allegations that Mandal's confessions during narco-analysis tests too had many gaps.
August 8, 2008
- The Police custody of the accused Krishna, Rajkumar and Vijay Mandal was extended for 14 more days, as they were now considered the prime accused.
August 9, 2008
- CBI director Ashwani Kumar said that the case is still unsolved, as many important corroborative pieces of evidence yet to be found. However, he fully accepted that it was very important that the father Dr. Rajesh Talwar was exonerated otherwise the very sanctity of our family structure would have been challenged.
It remains to be seen if Arushi's murder will be aired year after year on prime television slots under unsolved murder mysteries or if it will just fade into oblivion remaining fresh only in those minds which cared dearly for her............ without begining or an obvious end.........
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