The CBI has formed a three-member core team to re-investigate the sensational Noida double murder case after the agency drew flak for failing to file a chargesheet
NEW DELHI: The CBI has formed a three-member core team to re-investigate the sensational Noida double murder case after the agency drew flak for failing to file a chargesheet within the stipulated 90 days leading to release of three accused.
Sources in the investigating agency said the three member team would carry out re-investigation from the beginning and has been mandated to question people accused in the murder of Aarushi and her domestic help Hemraj and verify all evidence.
The agency, which took over the probe on May 31 this year into the mysterious double murder, has been maintaining investigations were not complete despite its former Director Vijay Shanker claiming that the agency had nearly cracked the
case.
Following the murder of 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar and her domestic help Hemraj on the intervening night of May 15 and 16, Aarushi's father Rajesh Talwar was arrested by Noida Police on May 23.
However, after the case was taken over by the CBI, the agency gave a clean chit to him on July 11.
The sources said the three-member team would piece all the evidences together and ascertain whether some gaps were left earlier while probing the blind murder case.
The failure of the CBI to file the chargesheet led to the release of Raj Kumar, domestic help of a Talwar family friend, Krishna, compounder of Talwar and domestic help his neighbour Vijay Mandal.
The weapon of offence and the mobile phones of the deceased are to be recovered and further linkages probed. A Letters Rogatory is being sent to Nepal, seeking assistance in locating some witnesses and mobile phones of the deceased.
The CBI has been maintaining that the weapon used in the double murder case was a heavy and sharp-edged one which could be a "Khukri" (traditional Nepalese dagger).
The three-member team would also be cooperating with the Nepalese authorities, if necessary, to find the missing links and telephone numbers from where calls were made on the phones of Hemraj, Krishna and Raj Kumar.
Raj Kumar, according to his counsel Dinesh Yadav, has already left for Nepal with a promise that he would make himself available for investigations as and when required.
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