Click to play videoNoida: In yet another twist in the Arushi Talwar murder case. the teenager's vaginal swabs which are used for DNA testing were swapped and now a doctor at the Noida Government Hospital is under the scanner.
The hospital's consultant pathologist, Dr Ritcha Saxena, is at the center of a raging debate as to whether she was responsible for swapping the vaginal swab of Arushi Talwar's with someone else or not.
Dr Saxena was the first doctor to test the sample a report from the Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh shows that Dr Saxena had been marked absent on the date she was supposed to have carried out the test.
But the doctor maintains that she was there at the hospital during the swab test.
"As I am a pathologist so I was regularly coming to the hospital," claims Dr Ritcha Saxena, consultant pathologist at Government Hospital in Noida.
But that is still not proof enough that Dr Saxena changed the slides. It could have been tampered long before the slide was handed over to her.
"It can be tampered anywhere. At the post-mortem house it remained then I think it was for four hours with the concerned police personnel, and then it was sent to chief medical superintendent," says Dr Saxena.
Another reason why Dr Saxena may have landed in trouble is because of her continuing rivalry with former chief medical superintendent of the Noida Government Hospital Dr SC Singhal.
Dr Singhal, now retired, disputes the claim that she had any rivalry with Dr Saxena.
"Her statement is wrong. If you check the records that I have sent to the higher authorities… and even the technicians working under her have given the statement that she was not punctual. She used to come late regularly and used to take the records to her home," claims Dr SC Singhal.
"He was marking me absent and to remove away the work evidence he took away all the registers," Dr Saxena says.
So Dr Saxena may have been shown as absent on the files because of official rivalry but there's no denying that she was close to the Talwar family. She has no hesitation in admitting it on camera.
"This is not an allegation. We are doctors and many doctors know each other. I happened to go once or twice to Fortis Hospital where she was working for my son's treatment. My son was having some problem in the teeth and by chance that day Dr Nupur Talwar (Arushi's mother) was there," she says.
So, the slides sent to Hyderabad did not belong to Arushi and the murder investigation is back at square one. The latest turnaround in the story obviously raises a host of unanswered questions.
Arushi case: A cover-up?
- When exactly was the sample sent to Hyderabad by the Central Bureau of Investigation?
- Was the sample sent before or after the CBI 'wrongly' decided to chargesheet the three servants?
- That wrong samples had been sent was discovered eight months back. So what has the CBI done after that to fix responsibility for this lapse?
- Why has the CBI not probed whose sample was sent instead of Arushi's?
- At whose behest the switch was made?
The murder investigation continues to throw up more questions than answers. It's clear that somewhere, the investigation has been botched up and perhaps the CBI can only solve the case if the agency comes back to the hospital in Noida.
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