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Noida Double Murder Case - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Noida Double Murder Case - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Noida Double Murder Case - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
The Noida double murder case refers to the murder of 14-year old Aarushi Talwar and 45year old Hemraj, a domestic help employed by her family, in Noida, India. The two were killed on the night of 1516 May 2008 at Aarushi's home. The case aroused public interest as a whodunit story, and received heavy media coverage. The sensational media coverage, which included salacious allegations against Aarushi and the suspects, was criticized by many as a trial by media.
When Aarushi's body was discovered on 16 May, the missing servant Hemraj was considered as Attack type Murder the main suspect. However, the next day, his decomposed body was discovered on the terrace. Weapon(s) Golf club, Surgical instrument The police were heavily criticized for failing to secure the crime scene immediately. After ruling out (suspected) the family's ex-servants, the police considered Aarushi's parents Dr. Rajesh Talwar and Nupur Talwar as the prime suspects. The police suspected that Rajesh had murdered the two after 2 Deaths finding them in an "objectionable" position, or because Rajesh's alleged extra-marital affair had led Arushi Talwar Victims to his blackmail by Hemraj and a confrontation with Aarushi. The accusations enraged the Talwars' Hemraj Banjade family and friends, who accused to police of framing the Talwars in order to cover up the botchedPerpetrators Rajesh Talwar up investigation. The case was then transferred to the CBI, which exonerated the parents and Nupur Talwar suspected the Talwars' assistant Krishna along with two domestic servants Rajkumar and Vijay. Based on the narco tests conducted on the three men, the CBI suspected that they had killed (convicted but plan to appeal) Aarushi after an attempted sexual assault, and Hemraj for being a witness. The CBI was accused of using dubious methods to extract a confession, and all the three men were released after it could not find any solid evidence against them. In 2009, the CBI handed over the investigation to a new team, which recommended closing the case due to critical gaps in the evidence. Based on circumstantial evidence, it named Rajesh Talwar as the sole suspect, but refused to charge him due to lack of any hard evidence. The parents opposed the closure, calling CBI's suspicion on Rajesh as baseless. Subsequently, a court rejected the CBI's claim that there was not enough evidence, and ordered proceedings against the Talwars. In November 2013, the parents were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Many critics argued that the judgment was based on weak evidence, and the Talwars stated that they would appeal to the higher courts.
Contents
1 Background 1.1 Events preceding the murders 1.2 The apartment 2 Discovery of Aarushi's body 3 Hemraj as the suspect 4 Discovery of Hemraj's body 5 Evidence gathered 5.1 The injuries 5.2 Aarushi's room 5.3 Aarushi's body 5.4 Hemraj's body and the terrace 5.5 Hemraj's room 5.6 The doors and the keys 5.7 Phone records 5.8 Claims of threat to Hemraj's life 5.9 Other evidence 6 Vishnu Sharma as suspect 7 Parents as the suspects 7.1 Parents' defense 8 Krishna, Rajkumar and Vijay as the suspects 8.1 Defence of Krishna, Rajkumar and Vijay 9 2009-10 investigation 9.1 Alleged tampering of Aarushi's sample 9.2 New CBI team 9.3 Parents suspected again 9.4 CBI's closure report 10 The case against the Talwars 10.1 Court verdict 11 Public attention 12 References 13 External links
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Background
Aarushi Talwar (24 May 1994-16 May 2008) was a 14-year old student at the Delhi Public School. She was the daughter of a dentist couple, Dr. Rajesh Talwar and Dr. Nupur Talwar. The family lived in an apartment in Sector 25 (Jalvayu Vihar) of Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Rajesh and Nupur practiced together at their clinic in Sector 27 of Noida. They also saw patients at the Fortis Hospital, where Rajesh headed the dental department. In addition, Rajesh taught at the ITS Dental College in Greater Noida. Anita and Praful Durrani, another dentist couple and close family friends of the Talwars, lived in the same city. The couple shared the Noida clinic with the Talwars: Rajesh and Anita worked at the clinic in the morning (9am-12pm), while Praful and Nupur worked there in the evening (5pm-7pm). The Durranis and the Talwars also shared a clinic in Hauz Khas area of Delhi.[1][2] Yam Prasad Banjade, better known as Hemraj, was the Talwar family's live-in domestic servant and cook. His family lived in his native village in the Arghakhanchi district of Nepal.[3]
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Rajesh and his driver Umesh Sharma returned to Jalvayu Vihar around 9.30 pm. Umesh dropped Rajesh in front of the apartment building, and then drove away to park the car at the house of Nupur's parents, which was located at a walking distance (the Talwars did not have a garage). Umesh returned to the Talwar residence around 9:40 pm to hand over the car keys and Rajesh's bag to Hemraj, who had cooked the dinner for the family. Umesh saw Nupur and Aarushi near the dining table, and also Rajesh coming out of his bedroom. He was the last known outsider to see Aarushi and Hemraj alive.[7] According to the Talwars, after the dinner, they went to Aarushi's room, and gifted her a Sony DSC-W130 digital camera.[8] The camera had arrived earlier that day via courier, and had been received by Hemraj. Rajesh had originally planned to gift it to Aarushi on her birthday (24 May), but Nupur persuaded Rajesh to give it to Aarushi that day as an early birthday surprise. Aarushi clicked several photographs of herself and her parents, the last one at 10:10 pm. Subsequently, Aarushi's parents retired to their room, while Aarushi remained in her room.
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11 pm-12 am
According to the parents, around 11 pm, Rajesh asked Nupur to switch on the internet router, which was located in Aarushi's room. When Nupur came to Aarushi's room, the teenager was reading Chetan Bhagat's The 3 Mistakes of My Life. Nupur switched on the router and returned to her own room. Around this time, Rajesh answered a call from the US on the landline phone (kept in the couple's room). This indicates that the ringer was not silent. Rajesh then surfed some stock market and dentistry websites, and also sent an e-mail.[9] He visited an e-mail site at 11:41:53 pm: this is time when the desktop and the laptop show the last internet usage.[10]
Around midnight, Aarushi's friend tried calling her on her mobile as well as the Talwar residence's landline. However, the calls were not answered. Around 12:30 am, he sent her an SMS message: this SMS was not received by Aarushi's phone.[9] The Internet router was used for the last time at 12:08 am.[11] Based on this, CBI infers that Rajesh was online until 12:08 am.[12] The exact sequence of events between the midnight and 6:00 am could not be determined by the investigators with certainty. According to their post-mortem reports, both Aarushi and Hemraj were killed somewhere between 12:00 am and 1:00 am.
The apartment
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The 1300 sq. ft. apartment had 3 bedrooms, a drawing-cum-dining room and a servant quarter, where Hemraj lived. Rajesh and Nupur lived in the master bedroom, while Aarushi lived in an adjacent room.[6] Hemraj's room had a separate entry from outside the apartment; it also opened into the apartment from inside.[9] The entrance to the Talwars' apartment at Jalvayu Vihar had three doors: the outermost grill gate, a middle grill door located in the passageway, and the innermost wooden door.[13] Hemraj's room had two doors - one door opened inside the apartment, and the other door was located between the two grill doors.[14] The Talwars had the outermost gate removed an year after the murders.[15]
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Nupur then called Hemraj's mobile phone, but the call was abruptly cut. When she tried calling him again, the phone appeared to have been switched off.[9] When Bharti reached downstairs, Nupur asked her to go back and check if the door was just latched, not locked.[16] Bharti insisted that Nupur throw the keys anyway, so that she doesn't have to take the stairs again, in case the door was locked. Nupur then threw the keys down to Bharti.[17] According to the Talwars, by this time, Rajesh also woke up. He entered the living room and saw a near-empty Scotch whisky bottle on the dining table, which surprised him. He asked Nupur who had kept the bottle there, and then alarmed, asked her to check Aarushi's room. Aarushi's room would generally be locked, and could be opened from inside or from outside by the parents with a key. But the couple found it unlocked. When they entered the room, they saw Aarushi's dead body lying on her bed. Rajesh started screaming, while Nupur remained silent (due to shock, according to her).[18] Meanwhile, Bharti returned to the outermost gate: she pushed it, and it opened without the key. She found that the middle door was latched, but not locked. She opened the latch and walked in.[17] When she entered the apartment, she saw Rajesh and Nupur crying. Nupur asked her to come inside Aarushi's room. Bharti stood at the entrance of the room, as Nupur walked inside. Aarushi's body lay on her bed; it was covered with a flannel blanket. Nupur pulled the blanket, and Bharti saw that Aarushi's throat was slit. Both the parents blamed Hemraj for Aarushi's murder in front of the maid. Bharti walked out of the apartment to inform the neighbours. She returned to the house and asked the Talwars if they wanted her to do the daily household chores. When they said "No", she moved on to work in other households.[16] The Talwars called their family and friends. Puneesh Rai Tandon, a neighbour who lived one floor below the Talwars, asked the Jalvayu Vihar security guard Virendra Singh to inform the police.[19] By the time the police arrived, there were 15 people in the living room and 5-6 people in the Talwars' bedroom; only Aarushi's room was vacant. The crime scene had been "completely trampled upon".[9] The story of a murder in an affluent neighbourhood also attracted many mediapersons, who gathered around the house by 8 am.[18]
went inside the house".[30] Rajesh later stated that he does not have exact recollection of what happened at that time, but he insisted that he never stopped the investigators from visiting any part of the house.[5] Ultimately, the police was unable to open the door and let it remain locked until the next day. SP Mahesh Mishra later stated that he had asked the terrace door to be opened on May 16. However, his subordinates told him that Rajesh Talwar couldn't find the key and they couldn't find a mechanic to break open the door. He also stated that he had filed a report on this "carelessness" with the Senior Superintendent of police (SSP) Noida.[28] On the morning of 17 May, Rajesh and Nupur left for Haridwar to immerse Aarushi's ashes in the Ganges river as per the Hindu custom. Several visitors continued to arrive at the Talwars' house (which was being managed by Dinesh) with their condolences. These visitors included KK Gautam, who had been requested by Sushil Chaudhury to come to the Talwars' house. After arriving at the house, Gautam examined the rooms of Aarushi and Hemraj. Dinesh then showed him the blood stains on the terrace door handle. According to Gautam, Dinesh requested him to get the terrace door lock opened. Gautam then called SP Mahesh Mishra, and told him that that the lock needed to be broken. Mishra promised that he would himself visit the crime scene, and meanwhile, sent the station officer Dataram Nauneria to the apartment. The key to the terrace was still missing. Anita Durrani asked the Talwars' neighbour Puneesh Tandon if he had a duplicate key to the Talwars' terrace, to which Tandon replied in the negative.[19] Ultimately, Dataram Nauneria broke open the lock.[21] As the group entered the terrace, they saw more bloody drag marks. A body "in advanced stage of putrification" was discovered lying in a pool of blood at about 10:30 am.[6] Dinesh couldn't identify the newly-discovered body, and called Rajesh and Nupur (who were on their way to Haridwar), asking them to return home. Meanwhile, SP Mahesh Mishra also reached the spot.[21] When the couple arrived at the home, Nupur didn't enter the house: she sat in the car with Aarushi's ashes, as she considered it inauspicious to take the ashes inside. Rajesh went upstairs to identify the body. He told the police that he couldn't be sure that the body was that of Hemraj, due to the injuries and the decomposition. Later, a friend of Hemraj identified the body as his.[5] Rajesh and Nupur later resumed their journey to Haridwar and returned the same day. At Haridwar, Rajesh entered the time of Aarushi's death as 2 am in the priest's records.[31] An autopsy of Hemraj's body was conducted at night by Dr. Naresh Raj.[32]
Evidence gathered
The UP police did not cordon off the crime scene immediately, and many people, including the media, were freely roaming in the apartment when the forensic team arrived to gather evidence. According to the CBI team, 90% of the evidence at the crime scene was destroyed due to the police's negligence.[33]
The injuries
According to their post-mortem reports, both Aarushi and Hemraj died between 12 am and 1 am.[34] Both had been first attacked with a heavy blunt weapon, which caused a "U/V-shaped" scar and resulted in their death. Then, their throats were slit with a sharp weapon. There was no sign of asphyxia.[6] Injuries on the victims' bodies [6] Aarushi Hemraj The blunt injury was on Aarushi's forehead, above the left eye. The CBI closure report also mentions an injury on the The blunt injury Blunt occipital region, but according to the Talwars' lawyers, the only injury mentioned by the post-mortem report is one on the was on the back of [35] injury left parietal bone. The blow had caused a deep cut of the size 4 cm x 3 cm, and a blood clot of the size 8 cm x 2 cm in Hemraj's head. her brain.[36] Incised The incision on Aarushi's neck measured 14 cm x 6 cm.[36] The blood had drained from the neck cuts, and there was no neck arterial spurting, indicating that these wounds were caused after the blunt injuries. wounds Weapon used for inflicting the blunt injury In May 2008, the forensic scientists stated that Aarushi was first assaulted with "a heavy sharp-edged weapon". The first hit on the forehead resulted in her death within two minutes, as indicated by the blood clot size.[36] In 2012, after Aarushi's parents were charged with the murder, the CBI claimed that according to the experts, the "dimensions of the striking distance" of one of Rajesh's golf clubs was identical to the dimensions of the injuries found on the bodies.[6] Dr. Sunil Dohare testified that the weapon used for the U/V-shaped injuries could possibly be a golf club. The defence argued that the CBI officers had drawn the words "golf club" from Dohare's mouth.[37] Talwars' lawyer stated that Aarushi had suffered a hairline fracture, and produced the forensic expert Dr RK Sharma, who told the court that this fracture could not have been caused by a golf club.[38] Weapon used for slitting the throats Hemraj had identical cuts on the neck at the same position.[37]
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The weapon used for slitting the throats of the victims was never found. The identical measurements of the lacerated wounds indicated that the same weapon was used on both the victims. In May 2008, the forensic scientists remarked that the wounds displayed a "clinical precision and careful thought", as they were inflicted at the right spot to cut the windpipe and dissect the vital left common carotid artery which supplies oxygenated blood to the brain.[36] Initially, when the Noida police first suspected the parents, they stated that the weapon used was a "surgical knife". By June 2008, the CBI's suspicion had shifted to the three Nepalese men, and the weapon was believed to be a kukri, a type of Nepalese knife. [39] The second CBI team returned to the "surgical instrument" theory. In 2013, CBI told the court that according to the faculty at the Talwars' alma mater Maulana Azad Medical College, their dental students were taught surgery. The defence argued that a dentist's scalpel has a cutting surface of about a centimeter: the instrument is too delicate to cut through the carotid artery.[40] According to the defence witness Dr. RK Sharma, the wounds could have been caused by surgical scalpel No. 10 (not used by dentists) or a kukri.[41]
Aarushi's room
Aarushi's body lay on her bed, covered with a white flannel blanket. Her face was covered with her schoolbag.[42]
There was blood on the pillow, the bed, the walls, the floor and the front side of the bedroom door. However, there was no blood on the toys, the schoolbag and the pink pillow kept on the back of the bed. These items were within the range of the splashed blood area, which indicates that they were placed on the bed after the murder. Aarushi's body lay undisturbed on the bed, and the bed sheet was laid out smoothly.[6][43] According to the CBI, no bloodstains were found on the book The 3 Mistakes of My Life, which Aarushi was supposedly reading before her murder.[44]
Aarushi's body
The post-mortem report marked Aarushi's genital area as "nothing abnormal detected", thus ruling out a sexual assault, but also noted the presence of a "whitish discharge" at her vagina. The whitish discharge sample was sent for pathological examination at the local district hospital, which reported absence of semen. However, later, in 2009, when this vaginal swab sample was sent to CBI's forensic labs, it was suspected to have been tampered with (see below). Ultimately, the CBI concluded that the sample had got contaminated, but not deliberately tampered with.[45] The bed sheet had a wet circular mark below her pelvic area, which was not urine. There was no such wet patch on her pyjamas, which were untied; no urine or any other bodily fluid was found on her underwear either. The lower garments of Aarushi appeared to have been been pulled up or pulled down, as her buttock cleavage was visible. CBI suspected that her pelvic area was swabbed clean, and the pyjamas were pulled up afterwards.[6][43] Later in 2012, Dr. Sunil Dohare stated that Aarushi's private parts were "extraordinarily dilated", although there were no signs of rape.[9] He stated that her hymen was ruptured and that it had an old tear. He also stated that her vaginal orifice was "unduly large", the mouth of her cervix was visible and the whitish discharge was confined to the vagina, when it should have spread to the "entire area".[46] Dr. Dohare stated that he had not mentioned these observations in his original report, because these were his "subjective findings", and because "the findings were non-specific and were very strange".[32][47] He added the wide vaginal opening found on Aarushi's body could have resulted only when someone manipulated it while the rigor mortis was setting in. He thus concluded that Aarushi's private parts appeared to have been cleaned after she died.[37]
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In 2012, during proceedings against Aarushi's parents as suspects, Dr Naresh Raj told a court that Hemraj's penis was swollen when his body was brought for autopsy. According to him, this meant that he was either in middle of a sexual intercourse, or was about to have one. The defence lawyer cited a medical book which stated that this swelling of penis after death was normal. In response, the doctor stated that his conclusion was not based on any medical authority, but on experiences from his own married life.[55]
Hemraj's room
On 1 July 2008, the first CBI team recorded a statement by KK Gautam, describing Hemraj's room as he found it on 17 May. According to this statement, Gautam saw three glasses, two of which had some quantity of liquor in them, while the third one was empty. He also found three bottles: Kingfisher beer, a Sprite and Sula whisky.[56] Later, DNA of Hemraj was found on the Kingfisher bottle,[57] although according to CBI's investigators, he was a teetotaler.[58] Gautam also visited the servant's toilet where he "found urine of more than one person".[59] According to the statement, he also saw a depression on Hemraj's mattress pointing to the presence of three people in his room. However, in 2012, Gautam told the court that there was no liquor in any of the glasses. He also stated that he had not suggested presence of three people in the room, based on the state of the mattress. When questioned about the discrepancies, he stated that the investigating officer should be asked why he did not record his statements correctly.[60] He stated that an officer from the first CBI team "distorted several things he said, added things he did not say, and produced a statement that suited the line of investigation at the time."[22]
Phone records
Both Aarushi and Hemraj had mobile phones, and both the phones disappeared after the murder. Hemraj Hemraj used a Tata Indicom mobile with the electronic serial number #20CFA3EC.[65] The SIM card was registered in name of Rajesh.[1] On 15 May, Hemraj had received two calls from the Talwars' clinic: the first call at 4:58 pm lasted for 10 minutes, and the second call at 5:37 pm lasted for 2 and a half minutes. Rajesh was working in his Hauz Khas clinic at the time, while Nupur was in another area of Noida (Fortis Hospital), as indicated by her mobile phone records. The Talwars' defence lawyer later claimed that Krishna Thadarai was working in the Noida clinic at that time.[57] The last call made to Hemraj during his lifetime was at 8:27 pm, and it lasted for 6 minutes. The call had been made from a PCO in Sector 31; the PCO was located a kilometer away from the Talwars' apartment.[51][66] The investigators were unable to determine who made this call.
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The phone records confirmed that Nupur called Hemraj's phone from the Talwars' landline at 6.01 a.m on 16 May. The call was picked up, but disconnected after two seconds.[1] This was the last call received on the phone, which was somewhere in the coverage area of the Nithari village cell tower 1362/254. The cell tower had a radius of around 1 km, and covered the apartment complex in which the Talwars (and Krishna) lived.[67][68] The police thus suspect that the killer was present inside the house or in its vicinity on the morning of 16 May.[1] Hemraj's phone was never found, but according to the CBI, the number was briefly active in Punjab.[68] Aarushi Last transaction on Aarushi's phone during 15 days preceding her death[69] Day Time Last activity May 1 11:22 pm SMS received May 2 12:50 am SMS received May 3 12:58 am SMS received May 4 12:30 am SMS sent May 5 11:49 pm SMS received May 6 12:12 am Call received May 7 12:39 am SMS received May 8 12:19 am SMS received May 9 12:39 am SMS received May 10 12:39 am SMS received May 11 11:29 pm Call received May 12 11:20 pm Call received May 13 12:25 am SMS received May 14 01:08 am SMS received May 15 9:10 pm SMS received Aarushi used a gloss black Nokia N72.[65] She would usually chat with her friends on phone until past midnight. However, on the night of May 15, her mobile phone was inactive after 9:10 pm. According to the investigators, some of her friends had tried to contact her, but found her mobile phone switched off.[6] The police suspected that either the battery of Aarushi's mobile phone had died or it had been confiscated by this time.[69] Around midnight, Aarushi's friend Anmol tried calling Aarushi on her mobile and then on the family's landline, but there was no response. Anmol sent an SMS message to her mobile phone at around half-past-midnight. According to the phone records, this SMS was not received by Aarushi's phone.[9] A few days after her death, Aarushi's phone was found on a dirt track by a housemaid named Kusum, near Noida's Sadarpur area. The phone was possessed by her brother Ram Bhool since May 2008, but he started using it only in February 2009, when he bought a new SIM card. He used it intermittently; on 12 September 2009, the police traced the phone to his residence in Bulandshahar, and recovered the phone from one Jitender whom he had just sold the phone to. Kusum and Ram Bhool were taken into custody for questioning, but the CBI determined that they had no role in the murders: they were not aware that the phone belonged to Aarushi, and had no mala fide intention in keeping it. The police did not find a data card, pictures or text messages on the recovered phone.[70] Family's landline The family's landline phone was kept in the bedroom of Rajesh and Nupur Talwar.[6] According to the investigators, Anmol called her landline around 11:30 pm, and the call lasted 34 seconds. However, Rajesh denied any knowledge about such a call.[69] Anmol also dialed the family's landline number around midnight, after having failed to reach Aarushi on her mobile: there was no response. The Talwars say that Aarushi would sometimes turn off the ringer on the landline at night, and she might have done it on that night too.[5] The neighbour Puneesh Tandon later told the court that when he visited the Talwar residence on the morning of 16 May, he asked Nupur's father if he had called the police. Nupur's father told him that the landline was out-of-order.[19] Rajesh Rajesh's mobile phone records do not indicate anything out of the ordinary. The tower location indicates that he was at his residence.[6] He had exchanged 16 calls with his fellow practitioner Anita Durrani till 8 pm. At 9:50 pm, he called the Impressionzz traders in Mumbai, from whom he had ordered Aarushi's camera through Indiatimes shopping, probably to ask about a camera feature. At 10.04 pm, he received a call from the father of a patient, who had an appointment on the next day. At 10:06, he called Dr. Mridul Seth to consult on a surgery scheduled on the next day. At 10:15, he
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received a call from Vikas Sethi, an employee at his Hauz Khas clinic. At 10:38, he received a call from a UAE number. At 10:54 pm and 11:01 pm, he made calls to the American Academy of Implant Dentistry, Chicago. The next call from his mobile was at 6:19 am on the next day, after the discovery of Aarushi's body.[8] Nupur Nupur's mobile phone was switched off from 7:40 pm on May 15 to 1 pm on May 18. The call records showed that it had not been switched off even once during 60 days preceding the murder.[1]
Other evidence
Hemraj apparently served himself dinner in a plate around 10:30 pm, but never ate it. His bed was still tidy in the morning, indicating that he didn't go to sleep on that night.[5] A Ballantine's Scotch whisky bottle with bloodstains was found on the dining table. The bloodstains were confirmed as that of Aarushi and Hemraj by a DNA expert.[79] The Scotch whisky bottle came from a mini-bar concealed behind a wooden panel, so it appears that the person who took it out knew the house well. The bottle was seized on the morning of 16 May, but no clear fingerprints could be recovered from it.[43] Constable Chunnilal Gautam took the first photographs of the crime scene and collected fingerprints on 16 May.[80] The police had gathered 26 fingerprints from the crime scene. According to a CBI official, 24 of these were gathered through wrong methods and could not be preserved. Only 2 fingerprints were suitable for evidential purposes, but these did not match with any of the suspects.[81] Chunni Lal did not take fingerprints of Aarushi.[82] Aarushi's camera had photographs numbered 13, 15, 20, 22 and 23: this indicates that at least 23 photographs had been taken using the camera, out of which 18 had been deleted. The CBI considered the possibility of the photographs having been deleted by someone other than Aarushi.[83] Nupur suggests a simpler explanation: Aarushi took several pictures, and deleted the ones she didn't like.[84] At around 3:43 a.m., nearly 3 hours after Aarushi's murder, the Internet router in Aarushi's room switched off. The CBI produced a technical expert from CERT-In who stated that the switching on/off of the router after a long gap can only happen due to either a power cut or manual intervention. There was no power cut on the night of the murders, a fact attested to by the electricity department.[85] The router was next switched on at 6.01 a.m. However, the router switched on and off a number of times with long gaps throughout 16 May, even when the police and the visitors were present in the apartment. The CBI concluded that such unexplained router activity made this piece of evidence unreliable.[86]
On 23 May, Rajesh and Nupur were taken to the Police Lines area, where they were split up. Nupur was put in a room with her cousin and a woman constable, while Rajesh was arrested and taken to a local magistrate. Subsequently, Rajesh was taken to the Dasna jail. Rajesh later claimed that the magistrate did not allow him to make any phone calls, and the cops threatened him into signing a confession on the way to the jail. He claimed that the cops were talking whether they should kill him; when he refused to sign the confession, they abused and threatened him throughout the day. Since it was Friday, Rajesh could not apply for a bail until Monday. He spent the weekend in the jail. He later stated that the police threatened him to sign the confession again while he was in their custody.[5] On the same day, Gurdarshan Singh organized a press conference. He announced that Rajesh killed Aarushi and Hemraj to hide his extramarital affair with Anita Durrani. He claimed that Aarushi's friend Anmol stated that she had told him about her father's affair.[94] (On May 22, the police had questioned Anmol, who had 688 phone interactions with her in the 45 days preceding her murder.[87][95]) Singh presented the following possible sequence of events, but did not mention any specific evidence:[5][96]
Possible sequence of events according to Inspector-General Gurdarshan Singh (23 May) Rajesh was having an extra-marital affair with Anita Durrani. Aarushi objected to this relationship. Disturbed by her father's adultery, Aarushi had confided in (or even started a sexual relationship with) Hemraj. On 15 May, Rajesh left the home at 9:30 pm, and came back at around 11:30 pm When he arrived, he found Aarushi and Hemraj in an "objectionable, though not compromising, position" Rajesh took Hemraj to the terrace, hit him with a heavy weapon, and then slit his throat. He then locked the terrace door, and had Scotch whisky. Then he killed his daughter.
After coming under criticism for maligning Aarushi's character, Singh modified his theory to state Rajesh hit Aarushi when she confronted him on his extramarital affair, while Hemraj was killed for being a witness to Aarushi's death.[52]
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The police accused Nupur Talwar of helping cover up the crime. The prosecution later alleged that she deliberately called Hemraj's phone to make the investigators believe that the killer was elsewhere.[97] In the last week of May 2008, the police claimed that they had a confession from Rajesh Talwar, but the Talwars denied this.[52] Rajesh stated that one Dinesh Verma was framing him, but the investigators later stated that there was no person with this name working on the case.[98][99] The public opinion turned against the Talwars, and many of their friends started avoiding them. The Fortis Hospital fired Rajesh on the same day. However, the members of the Indian Dental Association and former patients professed their belief in Rajeshs innocence.[5] The police seized Rajesh Talwar's laptop, and the hard disk of Aarushi's computer on 25 May.[100] A few days later, they claimed that Aarushi's e-mails to her father "justify her relations with three other boys", and that "objectionable" words were used in her interactions with her friends.[101] The police released selective e-mails to indicate that Aarushi was not on good terms with her father. For example, one of the e-mails to her father read "I just wanted to try it out coz I heard from mah frndz so wotz da harm I wnt do it again n I kinda noe hw u r feelin."[96] (This particular e-mail was actually an year old, and was Aarushi's apology for her insistence to go out for watching the movie Namaste London with her friends without an adult).[84] In June, a report in the Mid Day newspaper quoted an unnamed Delhi police official as saying that the Talwars were part of a wife swapping club, and they would lock Aarushi in her room whenever the club members met at the Talwar residence. It further claimed that Hemraj told Aarushi about this club, and called a number in Dubai, where the kingpin of this club was residing a night before the murder.[102] On 6 July, an English daily Mail Today reported that the Talwars spent the night of the murders at a high-society party in a posh South Delhi hotel, quoting CBI sources. Both Nupur Talwar and CBI refuted the allegations.[87][103] Aarushi's friends and relatives were outraged at the character assassination of the family, especially at the suggestion that she was in a sexual relationship with Hemraj. The supporters of the Talwars say that the police and the media tried to malign Aarushi as a disturbed, promiscuous teenager. Aarushi had received a bouquet of flowers from an admirer, had done a school project on drug addiction, and had 688 interactions with her schoolmate Anmol in 45 days. All these were used to build a "portrait of promiscuity" according to the Talwars' supporters.[5] Her schoolmates at the Delhi Public School organized a candlelight vigil condemning the police for maligning her name.[84] Renuka Chowdhury, the Minister for Women and Child Development, demanded the suspension of Inspector-General Singh. Singh was transferred a month later, only to be transferred back two months later.[18]
Parents' defense
Rajesh claimed that he was being framed by the police to cover up their own botched-up investigation. The case was transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on 31 May at the request of Aarushi's parents. In June, CBI started investigating the case under the Joint-Director Arun Kumar. The Talwars provided counter-arguments for the points that had made them the prime suspects:[5][9][18] Sleeping through the murders The Talwars stated that they slept through the murders because of the noise produced by two air conditioners on the hot night. The couple's room had a window AC, and Aarushi's room had a split AC; both were switched on the night of 15 May.[6] In addition, their bedroom was shut. Aarushi is also believed to have had a throat infection, due to which she could not have screamed aloud.[104] In 2013, the defence witness and forensic expert Dr. RK Sharma stated that a 14-year old child would have fallen unconscious immediately due to the first blow from the blunt weapon, and would not have been able to scream for help. He based this statement on an analysis of the injuries on Aarushi's body.[41] A sound expert team later recreated the air conditioners' noise in the house on CBI's invitation. The team concluded that it was possible that the Talwars' could not hear the sounds outside their room, and thus, could have slept through the activities in their house on that night. Murder of Aarushi and Hemraj in a fit of anger on finding them together The later evidence suggested that the killers did not drag Hemraj's body to the terrace to hide it: he was killed on the terrace, which nullifies the theory that Rajesh killed him when he saw him in Aarushi's room. Rajesh's driver Umesh testified that the clothes worn by Rajesh on the morning of 16 May were the same as the ones he saw him wearing the previous night when he came to return the keys. His description of Rajesh's clothes matched that of the maid Bharati, who told the court that Rajesh was wearing a red T-shirt and a half trouser, while Nupur was wearing a blue maxi gown.[16][105] There was only Aarushi's blood on Rajesh's clothes, but no blood of Hemraj could be traced on these clothes. There was no blood on the clothes that Nupur was seen wearing in the photographs taken by Aarushi on the night before.[12] This implied that the parents could not have committed the murders under sudden provocation, as speculated by the police.[5][106] The parents also pointed out that they would not indulge in something like honor killing, as they came from liberal educated families and had an inter-caste marriage.[107] Undue haste in cremation and cleaning The parents denied that they had dressed up the crime scene, pointing out that if they wanted to do so, they would have not left the Scotch whisky bottle with bloodstains in the living room for everyone to see. The family denied that they had shown any haste in cleaning the crime scene or cremating Aarushi's body. Nupur's mother Lata Chitnis and their clinic manager Vikas Sethi stated they received permission from the police to clean the house. The police had told them that they had already collected all the necessary evidence, including a part of Aarushi's mattress. It was the police who suggested that Aarushi's mattress be taken to the terrace for now, given the media clamor downstairs. Vikas found the terrace locked, and when he could not find the key, he placed the mattress on the neighbouring terrace. The family also claimed that the police confirmed that they won't need the body for any further analysis, since the post-mortem had already been done. Since it was decomposing fast, they cremated it.
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Access to Aarushi's room Nupur explained the killer's force-free entry into Aarushi's room by stating that she might have left the key hanging at the door lock, when she arrived to switch on the Internet router. Extra-marital affair The Talwars and the Durranis denied that Rajesh and Anita were engaged in an extramarital affair. According to them, the two couples had close ties, because they shared dental clinics and both were nuclear families with teenage daughters.[52] Other[5][18] The fingerprints of the parents were not found on the Scotch whisky bottle or the blood-stained clothes of the victims.[6] Rajesh stated that he urged the police to pursue Hemraj, because being missing, he was the obvious suspect. Rajesh also claimed that he had no recollection of the police asking him for the keys to the terrace door. He could not recognize Hemraj's body as it was highly decomposed. He also claimed that he noticed that the T-shirt on the body read "New York"; the police had told him that the person was wearing a kada (a bracelet). He went down to ask Nupur (who was sitting in the car) whether Hemraj had worn these two items. When Nupur confirmed that he did, Rajesh called Dinesh to say that the body was most likely that of Hemraj. Dinesh denied asking KK Gautam to use his influence to change the post-mortem report. He claimed that CBI could not find any records of him making calls at the post-mortem house. The crime scene had been compromised, so Kumar turned to polygraph test (lie-detector), brain-mapping tests and narco-analysis. Rajesh and Nupur cleared two lie-detector tests and a brain-mapping test, which did not find any evidence of lying on their part. The Talwars' relatives and friends state that the parents displayed adequate signs of grief. Nupur's father BG Chitnis reported that "Rajesh had become hysterical and was banging his head against the wall." Radhika Chada, a family friend, stated that Nupur was in "complete shock". Masooma Ranalvi, mother of Aarushi's friend Fiza, said that Rajesh and Nupur were "numb with grief".[54] The size of the shoeprint found on the terrace was 8 or 9, while Rajesh's shoe size is 6.[51]
Possible sequence of events according to CBI Joint Director Arun Kumar, based on the suspects' narco tests Hemraj invited Krishna, Rajkumar and Shambhu to his servant quarters at the Talwars' apartment. The three men reached the Talwars residence around midnight.[114] According to Rajkumar's narco test, Shambhu was a domestic help working for Talwars' neighbours, but he had no role to play in the murders.[115] The four men started drinking beer. Krishna spoke of his humiliation by Rajesh Talwar, and expressed his desire to take revenge.[115] Aarushi's room was surprisingly unlocked that day. What happened exactly after that differs according to different narco tests and media reports: Rajkumar's version :[116] Aarushi threatened to expose what the suspects said about her father, so Krishna took out his Kukri and killed her. The suspects planned to flee, but Hemraj developed cold feet and threatened to expose them. Krishna and Rajkumar dragged Hemraj to terrace and killed him. The mobile phones of Aarushi and Hemraj were destroyed. Krishna's version 1 :[117] Rajkumar and Krishna entered Aarushi's room, and Rajkumar tried to sexually assault her. When Aarushi resisted, Krishna drew out a kukri and kill her. Then the two men dragged Hemraj to the terrace and killed him for being a witness. Krishna's version 2 [114] Rajkumar and Shambhu entered Aarushi's room and tried to rape her. When Aarushi resisted, Shambhu hit her on the head and Rajkumar then killed her with a kukri The murder weapon was cleaned with a tissue paper and flushed down in Aarushi's washroom. Krishna, Rajkumar and Shambhu then took Hemraj to the terrace and killed him. The three men "escaped from the roof of the building after locking the terrace door". Krishna's version 3 [115] Rajkumar walked towards Aarushi's room. Krishna and Shambhu followed him. Rajkumar tried to sexually assault Aarushi. When she resisted, Krishna took out his kukri and slit her throat: the blow was so hard that her neck ripped open and she fell dead. Hemraj got scared and threatened to tell Aarushi's parents about the incident. So, the other men took him to the terrace and killed him. Krishna, Shambhu and Rajkumar tried entering Talwars' room but found it locked.
Rajesh Talwar was released later in the day, for lack of evidence, after having spent 50 days in prison. Rajesh and Nupur relocated to their parents' home after his release. The three other suspects were arrested, but the drug-induced confession was not enough to charge them.[18]
According to the CBI officials, Krishna had confessed to the crime, but changed his statements several times.[124] The Narco report of Krishna and Rajkumar stated that Aarushi's mobile phone was sent to Nepal. However, it was recovered from India in September 2009 (having been discovered by a maid in 2008). This further highlighted the unreliability of the narco tests.[125] Vijay Mandal had not been mentioned in the test, and "Shambhu" being his alias was CBI's conjecture. Other No DNA or fingerprints belonging to the three men could be identified from the items seized in the Talwars' house.[6] On 17 June 2008, SK Singla, a serologist at the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) Delhi, said he could not identify any human blood on the kukri recovered from Krishna's room. The kukri was then sent to the CFSL DNA expert BK Mahapatra, who said he could not extract any DNA from the weapon.[119] CBI could not find any hard evidence of any physical or phone-based interaction between Krishna, Rajkumar, Vijay and Hemraj on that day. Besides, Rajkumar and Vijay did not try to abscond even after Krishna was arrested.[6] On 6 November 2008, a report from CDFD Hyderabad stated that the blood marks on the pillow recovered from Krishna's residence matched Hemraj's blood. Nobody in the CBI team, including Arun Kumar or the investigating officer MS Phartiyal noticed this. When Talwars' defence lawyers noticed this in 2011, the CBI stated that there was an error in the report: the pillow in the question was the one receovered from Hemraj's room, not from Krishna's residence. The lab acknowledged CBI's claim.[18][119] On 9 August 2008, the CBI director Ashwani Kumar stated that the case remained unsolved, but also added that Rajesh Kumar should be exonerated.[87] The three men were released in September, after the police could not find any hard evidence against them.[18] Immediately after his release, Vijay Mandal alleged that CBI had used physical force and threats against him, and at times, praised him to coax him into turning an approver against Krishna and Rajkumar. He insisted that the charges against all three of them were false and an attempt to frame them. He also stated that he did not know Rajkumar at all, and that CBI "trapped" him into saying something wrong when he was semi-conscious.[126]
2009-10 investigation
In January 2009, CBI announced that the agency was ready to file a chargesheet against Krishna, Rajkumar and Vijay. However, in absence of any hard evidence, this could not be done.
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In July 2008, the Uttar Pradesh government had announced Arun Kumar's recall to the UP cadre. At that time, the UP government had clarified that the recall had no connection with the Aarushi case.[135] Arun Kumar's tenure at CBI ended in September 2009. The media had accused him of not investigating the alleged tampering scandal, and speculated that this scandal had resulted in his being taken off the case.[45][136] In September 2009, the case was transferred to a new CBI team headed by SP Neelabh Kishore.[137] Additional SP AGL Kaul served as the investigating officer.
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CBI's closure report[6] Krishna, Rajkumar and Vijay The CBI gave a clean chit to the three men for the reasons mentioned earlier: the narco tests were unreliable, the three men had alibis, no evidence indicates that they visited Talwars' residence on the day of the murders and even after Krishna was arrested, Rajkumar and Vijay did not try to abscond etc. Parents According to the CBI, the circumstantial evidence pointed towards the involvement of the parents in the crime. Only they had a reason and the ability to dress up the crime scene (e.g. covering Aarushi's body, streamlining her bed linen, cleaning up her private parts, attempting to hide Hemeraj's body etc.) Besides, the CBI argued, that the cuts on the victims' necks were "surgical" and could have been only made by professional trained experts, and the blunt injury appeared to have been caused by a golf club. The CBI also repeated the points earlier made by the police, such as force-less entry into Aarushi's room, Rajesh's alleged diversionary tactics, avoidance in providing the terrace key, refusal to identify the dead body as that of Hemraj, attempts to remove references to sexual assault in the post-mortem report etc. Insufficient evidence The CBI investigators were affected by the inability of the first responders (the UP police) to examine the crime scene properly and to collect the necessary evidence. Although CBI found circumstantial evidence against the parents, there were many gaps: No evidence shows that Hemraj was murdered in Aarushi's room Hemraj's blood was not found on parents' clothes. Murder weapons were not recovered. Rajesh's golf club was possibly used as the weapon, but no DNA or bloodstain could link it to the crime. Also, a team of experts had ruled that kukri cannot be ruled out as the weapon used for slitting the throats of the victims. The blood-soaked clothes of the murderers, the clothes used to allegedly clean the blood from the crime scene and the bed sheet allegedly used to drag Hemraj's body could were not found. The fingerprints on the bloodstained Scotch whisky bottle could not be identified. The testimony of the Jalvayu Vihar security guards that they did not see anyone entering or leaving the house was not fool-proof. Scientific tests on Rajesh and Nupur do not conclusively indicate their involvement in the crime. The exact sequence of events between midnight and 6 am on 16 May is not clear. No evidence clearly shows an individual role of either Rajesh or Nupur in the crime. Absence of a clear-cut motive Recommendation CBI recommended that the case should be closed due to insufficient evidence. The CBI officer AGL Kaul later revealed that he wanted to file a chargesheet against the parents for the murders, but his superiors Nilabh Kishore and Javed Ahmed decided to file a closure report due to insufficient evidence.[143] Talwars' relatives and their supporters alleged that all the CBI officers investigating the case were colleagues of the state police who botched the original investigation.[5] The Talwars criticized CBI for making "false and baseless" allegations against them; Nupur lamented that the CBI had condemned them for life. On 24 January 2011, a 29-year old self-proclaimed vigilante Utsav Sharma assaulted Rajesh Talwar with a meat cleaver in front of the court. Rajesh suffered deep cuts on his hands and the right side of his face. Sharma, who claimed to be upset at the slow pace of the case, had previously attacked former police chief S.P.S. Rathore of the Ruchika Girhotra Case.[144] Nupur accused CBI of "unleashing mob" on her family, and criticized the media commentary on the case.[145] Other intruders The CBI also ruled out involvement of intruders other than Krishna, Rajkumar and Vijay, because there was no sign of forced entry in the house, and there was no known motive. In addition, the CBI argued that an outsider would not have bothered to dress up the crime scene or hide body of Hemraj by dragging it and covering it with a cooler panel.
In August 2012, the media reported that the CBI officer AGL Kaul had been using the e-mail ID hemraj.jalvayuvihar@gmail.com for the CBI's official communication with the Talwars, under the name "Hemraj Singh". CBI initially denied these allegations, but later admitted that the email ID was created for some "specific purpose" which they refused to explain.[155] The journalist Avirook Sen alleged that this was a crude pressure tactic against the Talwars, since they were forced to respond to the mails purportedly coming from someone named "Hemraj".[156] The Talwars asked for a Touch DNA test to analyze the palm print found on the terrace, and the Scotch whisky bottle. The Talwars also asked for a Touch DNA test on the golf club that was allegedly used as the murder weapon. They even offered to pay for these tests.[157] The CBI consulted J Nagaraju, a molecular genetics scientist (and director of the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, which conducted the DNA testing for the Aarushi case). Nagaraju dismissed the reliability of the LCN DNA technology and the possibility of it yielding any fresh evidence.[5] The Supreme Court rejected the Talwars' appeal, and refused to order any further investigation.[18] In August 2012, the CFSL DNA scientist BK Mahapatra claimed that he had found male DNA on Aaurshi's pillow, leading credence to the theory that Hemraj was present in Aarushi's room. However, CBI later clarified that Mahapatra's claim was wrong. The pillow was from Hemraj's room; it was a part of "Parcel 21", which had been collected from the Talwars's house on 1 June 2008. The defence argued that the CBI had deliberately created this misunderstanding to frame the Talwars.[158] Also in September, the CBI tried to debunk the claim that the parents could not have heard the outside happenings because of the air conditioners' noise. It claimed that there a portion of the wall between the couple's room and Aarushi's room was made of a plywood partition. It also alleged that after the murders, the Talwars hired a painter named Shohrat, who painted the partition with a colour matching the other walls of Aarushi's room.[159] Shohrat testified that Rajesh asked him to paint the wooden partition with a wall-matching color twice - once in 2009 and again on 19 April 2010.[160] He also stated that Rajesh asked him to remove the outermost grill gate along with the iron grill on the balcony, both of which were in good shape.[161] The CBI implied that the parents were trying to tamper with the evidence. The Talwars branded this claim as false, saying that the rooms were separated by a brick wall that had a plywood lamination over it. They defence also stated that Shohrat had been hired to paint the entire apartment, not just the partition. Besides, the painting was done in July 2009, more than an year after the murders, and when the apartment was vacant. The Talwars also stated that they possessed e-mails from CBI that granted them the permission to renovate the apartment.[5][11] In its 2010 closure report, the CBI had stated the sequence of events on the night of the murders was unclear. However, after the court asked the Talwars to be charged with the murders, the CBI investigator AGL Kaul narrated the following possible sequence of events during his cross-examination in the court, in April 2013:[162]
Possible sequence of events according to CBI Additional SP AGL Kaul Rajesh heard some noise and went to Hemraj's room. He did not find Hemraj in his room, but heard some noise coming from Aarushi's room. He picked up a golf club from Hemraj's room and rushed to Aarushi's room. He saw Aarushi and Hemraj in an objectionable position on Aarushi's bed. In a fit of anger, Rajesh hit Hemraj's head with the golf club. When he tried to hit him second time, Hemraj moved and Aarushi was hit instead. Awakened by the noise, Nupur Talwar came to Aarushi's room. By this time, both the victims were near-dead. The parents decided to hide Hemraj's body in order to dispose it at a more opportune time. They wrapped his body in a bed sheet and dragged him to the terrace. They slit his throat and covered the body with a cooler panel. Then they came to Aarushi's room, dressed-up the crime scene and also slit her throat to ensure that the wounds on the two bodies look similar. They then cleaned the blood stains on the floor. They also collected all the blood-stained clothes and the sharp-edged weapon in order to dispose them off. They then walked out of the flat, latched the middle grill door from outside and entered the house through Hemraj's room, in order to mislead the investigators. Rajesh then drank Scotch whiskey.
Court verdict
On 25 November 2013, a special CBI court held Rajesh and Nupur Talwar guilty for the two murders. The Special Judge Shyam Lal convicted the couple for murder, destruction of evidence, misleading the probe and filing a wrong FIR.[163] On 26 November 2013, they were sentenced to life imprisonment for the twin murders. [164] The Talwar family called the verdict a miscarriage of justice, and alleged that the points proving innocence of Rajesh and Nupur were not produced by the CBI before the court. The Talwars plan to appeal to a higher court.[165]
Public attention
After the discovery of Hemraj's body, the case attracted public attention as a bizarre whodunit. The speculations about a sexual relationship between a teenage girl and her male servant provided material for yellow journalism, as did the allegations about the extra-marital affair of Aarushi's father. The critics argued that the alleged tabloid journalism by an overzealous media, along with the police's missteps, had "prejudiced the course of justice".[166] On 22 July 2008, a Supreme Court bench consisting of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice Markandey Katju asked the media to be careful in its coverage of
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the case, and abstain from making baseless allegations doubting the character of Aarushi or her father. It criticised the "sensationalist" media reports as lacking in "sensitivity, taste and decorum".[167] On 25 July, the Ghaziabad court judge objected to the "inhuman treatment" of Krishna, Rajkumar and Vijay by the police.[87] In 2008, Balaji Telefilms decided to depict an "inspired" version of the murder case on their soap opera Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki. Nupur Talwar requested the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) to stop Balaji Telefilms from airing the show, saying that the production house was trying to earn TRPs by exploiting a tragedy. However, the production house refused to change the script.[168] The upcoming film Rahasya ("The Secret") is based on the twin murders. The film will feature Sakshi Sem as Aarushi, Tisca Chopra as Nupur and Ashish Vidyarthi as Rajesh.[169] In 2012, while lodged in the Dasna Jail, Nupur Talwar expressed her wish to write a book on the case, titled Mystery behind Aarushi's murder - A Tale of Unfortunate Mother.[170] However, the jail authorities seized the 17 pages written by her, stating that she would need to seek permission from the court to write a book on the under-trial case.[171] Rajesh Talwar's sister Vandana Talwar, along with her other relatives and friends, launched a campaign to prove the innocence of the Talwars. Through the website www.justiceforaarushitalwar.com, the group blamed CBI for goof-ups in investigation. Vandana also created a Facebook page, a Twitter account and sent e-mails proclaiming the parents' innocence.[172][173]
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External links
CBI's closure report (http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?270396) (Mirror (http://ibnlive.in.com/news/read-for-yourself-cbis-aarushiclosure-report/142966-53.html)) The State of U.P. Through the C.B.I. vs. Rajesh Talwar & Another (http://ghaziabad.nic.in/court_new/arushi1.pdf), the CBI court case that
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resulted in Talwars' conviction. Supreme Court case documents Dr Mrs Nupur Talwar vs Cbi Delhi And Anr on 6 January, 2012 (http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/30103864/) Rajesh Talwar vs C.B.I & Ors. on 2 March, 2012 (http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/154758747/) Nupur Talwar vs Cbi & Anr on 7 June, 2012 (http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/23184380/) Rajesh Talwar & Anr vs Cbi & Anr on 8 October, 2013 (http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/143817040/) CBI documents Aarushi's post-mortem report from September 2009 (http://www.scribd.com/doc/122348870/Aarushi-postmortemSept09-pdf? secret_password=211fiyb8v8uf6ls9q5a9) Hemraj's autopsy report (http://www.scribd.com/doc/122349457/Hemraj-s-autopsy?secret_password=xyae9r9xny04plti3vb) Crime Scene Analysis (http://www.scribd.com/doc/122349634/Aarushi-Crime-Scene-Analysis?secret_password=1yf5t425f1xauh5wldon) Rajesh computer usage record (http://www.scribd.com/doc/122349775/Rajesh-computer-usage-record? secret_password=v9qq3nbc39vg5pjli03) Crime scene photographs: The untold story (http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/the+untold+story/1/126593.html) (includes photos of Aarushi's body) Girl murder case takes a new turn (http://www.hindu.com/2008/05/18/stories/2008051857380100.htm) (includes a photograph of the terrace where Hemraj's body was found) The Aarushi Case Files (http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/the-aarushi-case-files) (another photograph of the terrace) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noida_double_murder_case&oldid=584963718" Categories: Indian murder victims People murdered in India Noida Murder in 2008 Deaths by beating Indian case law Crime in Uttar Pradesh This page was last modified on 7 December 2013 at 07:47. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
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