Aarushi case: CBI admits failure to arrive at ‘any plausible conclusion’

CBI closed the Aarushi case because it was “impossible” to arrive at “any plausible conclusion” as to who killed the 14-year-old daughter of the dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar in the absence of “concrete forensic evidence”.

The evidence was perhaps available at the scene of the crime when the insensitive Uttar Pradesh Police were in-charge of the May 2008 case.

CBI reportedly also failed to establish the motive behind the brutal killing of Aarushi and the Talwars’ domestic help Hemraj even after subjecting several suspects, including Rajesh, to sustained questioning and narcoanalysis tests.

“The crime scene was dressed up and all fingerprints were found contaminated. All three servants who were suspects have been found to be innocent,” a CBI official said on condition of anonymity.

The three servants establish their “alibi”, the official said.

Sources said Rajesh Talwar’s name figures among suspects in the 30-page closure report submitted to the Ghaziabad court.

Though a complainant in the case, Rajesh continues to figure as a “suspect”, they said.

To this, Nupur Talwar said, “It’s an absolutely bizarre and absurd allegation by CBI. We are the ones pushing for the investigation.”
The report also mentions that somebody close to the victim’s family allegedly “tried to influence” the doctor who conducted a post-mortem on her. Sources said both Aarushi and Hemraj were hit by a golf club and a bottle of whiskey recovered from the drawing room of the Talwars’ house had stains of Aarushi and Hemraj’s blood on it. But there were fingerprints on the bottle, they said.

Aarushi’s mobile phone, which was recovered from Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh after over a year, was also of little help as data in the phone had been deleted. While CBI managed to find the phone in a distant city, it failed to recover the bed sheet on which Aarushi was lying in a pool of blood. It also failed to conduct a ‘Touch DNA’ test as its three forensic experts said the samples were highly contaminated.

Meanwhile, Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar said on Friday she was “worried” at the recent developments in the Aarushi Talwar murder case and that she wanted the victim to get justice. “This is an important issue. We are worried about it...that a child was murdered and why she is not getting justice... we should think seriously,” she said, asserting that Aarushi and others like her “should get justice”.

Girija Vyas, chairperson of National Commission for Women, said: “India today has advanced greatly in the field of science and technology and it is unfortunate if CBI, the premier investigating agency of the country, expresses helplessness to find and nail culprits of a murder as gruesome as Aarushi’s.”