Arushi murder is crime of passion or honour killing: Cops

WHODUNNIT? Police are taking the help of Arushi's friend Anmol in establishing a profile.

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New Delhi: Noida girl Arushi Talwar’s murder was either a crime of passion or an honour killing, said a senior police officer on Thursday.

Police added that Hemraj, the domestic help at the Talwar household, was murdered because he probably saw Arushi being murdered.

The police will take 15 more days to find out who killed Arushi and Hemraj, said Noida Senior Superintendent of Police A Satish Ganesh at a press conference on Thursday.

“Police are exploring honour killing and crime of passion as possible motives. I would like to take media's help as well in finding why it happened. Only one person was supposed to be killed and the other was killed because he was a witness or had information about the first murder,” said Ganesh.

Arushi, 14, was found murdered in her bedroom at her L-32 Jalvayu Vihar home in Sector-25 in Noida last Friday.

The police immediately declared Hemraj as their suspect but were red-faced when he was found murdered in the balcony of Talwar’s home.

The police are taking the help of Arushi’s friend Anmol in establishing a profile of the girl. The two friends had communicated 688 times on phone between April 1 and May 15, said Ganesh.

Ganesh revealed said the murder victims’ viscera are being examined to find if the two were poisoned though the autopsy had ruled out poisoning.

Sources tell CNN-IBN that senior police officers questioned Arushi's parents, Dr Rajesh Talwar and Dr Nupur Talwar, and her uncle for almost two hours.

The questions that remain unanswered are:

• Why hadn't the police searched the terrace a day before? Even the weapon used in the murder hadn't been traced.

• The mattress that Arushi was found lying on was left on the terrace, to face the sun and since Sunday, the incessant rains. Why hadn't her room been sealed?

• There is no clear consensus on who found the girl's body. Was it the parents, who are said to have been keeping their daughter locked at nights or is it the maid, as claimed by Arushi's father?