ARSUHI-HEMRAJ MURDER CASE
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No headway in Arushi-Hemraj double murder case
Published on Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 23:45, Updated on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 00:33 in India section
Tags: Arushi Talwar, Hemraj , Noida
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Noida: The double murder case of Arushi Talwar and Hemraj is still far from being solved.
There have been many shocking negligence in the case by the police. Noida police found the body of Talwars' domestic help Hemraj's body a full 24 hours after Arushi's body was found.
Till Hemraj's body was found, Noida Police claimed that Hemraj had killed Arushi on May 16, 2008.
After Hemraj's body was found on the terrace of Talwar house Noida Sector-20 Police Station Officer Dataram Nauneria was transferred for lapses in investigations.
But in yet another lapse which may leave the case unsolved forever Arushi's vaginal swab was taken by Dr Sunil Dohere from the government hospital in Noida and given to pathological consultant Dr Ritcha Saxena for testing.
But the swab was tampered with and Arushi's body was allowed to be cremated with the funeral taking away every shred of evidence.
By then, the police were claiming that the twin-murders have been done with surgical precision and an insider job was suspected.
Another police officer, Superintendent of Police (City) Mahesh Mishra was shifted out on charges of a slipshod job
On May 23, 2008, Dr Rajesh Talwar, father of Arushi, was arrested for double murder.
Inspector General of Police Gurdarshan Singh declared on May 23, 2008, at a press conference that Talwar killed his daughter Arushi in a fit of rage after finding her in an "objectionable position but not compromising state" with Hemraj.
But they had no evidence to present as they tried to nail Dr Talwar.
Meanwhile, Arushi's mother Dr Nupur Talwar demanded a CBI probe.
By May 28, 2008, the officers investigating the case were changed for the third time and the Uttar Pradesh government forced to transfer the case to the CBI after a series of bungling by the Noida police.
On June 1 CBI took charge of the case and another round of errors started to creep in.
Error Number 1: CBI got possession of all case material but the investigation ignored the swab, the most vital forensic evidence. They send it to Hyderabad forensic lab only a month later. By the time, there was fungus on the slides.
Error Number 2: The clothes that Arushi was found in were soaked in blood. But the forensic lab received clean clothes.
Error Number 3: After keeping Talwar in custody for a long time and then arresting one of the servants, the CBI declared the Arushi murder as a blind case. But soon after CBI arrested two more domestic helps, conducted a series of narco-analysis, lie-detection and narco-analysis tests on them.
Error Number 4: On June 18, 2008, in a press conference, the CBI declared the three domestic helps the principal accused in the twin-murder case, closing of the case without even preliminary reports from Hyderabad's Centre for DNA fingerprinting and diagnostics.
After that the CBI did nothing. The case was allowed to fade from public memory and media scrutiny.
The CBI got the information of the Hyderabad forensic test confirmation that Arushi's vaginal swab was not hers and it had been changed.
Now CBI's new Director Ashwini Kumar has been forced to order a new investigation.
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Shame on UP police. This is not the first time. They did this in nithari case too. Its high time
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