Aarushi murder: Who’s the CBI ‘source’ in media reports? Supreme Court curious

The Aarushi murder case is likely to trouble the CBI some more.

The agency is under the Supreme Court’s scanner for leaking information to the media which damaged the slain girl and her parent’s reputation.

The court has asked the agency to explain some expressions — ‘according the CBI sources’; `informed sources in CBI’; and `CBI said’ — used in the media to conceal the source.

“Who is the CBI officer?...They (officers) are more interested in going to the press than investigating cases,” an apex court bench said on Wednesday, asking the Centre’s counsel PP Malhotra to take the matter up with the department and instruct the officials not to indulge in such practices.

The bench was hearing a petition filed by the parents of Aarushi, Rajesh and Nupur Talwar. They had sought a check on the ‘baseless, scandalous and malicious’ stories published in a section of the media. All the stories are attributed to CBI sources.

Appearing for the Talwars, Pinaki Mishra, said the CBI team was headed in the same direction as the Uttar Pradesh Police, which charged the parents with Aarushi’s murder two years ago. The matter will come up for hearing next month.