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Aarushi murder: Two funerals and a hundred blunders

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[Updated September 10]

117 days after the murders of Aarushi Talwar and her family’s servant, Hemraj, India’s top criminal investigation agency finally admits that it simply doesn’t have evidence in the case. So is this the perfect crime? Will the killers walk away scot free? And what happens now? Neeraj Chauhan reports for The Indian Express

The CBI finally admitted on Tuesday that it does not have sufficient evidence against the domestic helps accused in the murder of teenager Arushi Talwar and household help Hemraj.

The investigating agency said in a press conference today that it has been unable to file chargesheet against Krishna, Rajkumar and Vijay Mandal within the stipulated 90-day period. With Mandal already out on bail, the other two also look set to get bail.

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The killers could have been caught in a day but the tragic Aarushi-Hemraj saga has slipped into the realm of frenzied speculation. In Tehelka, Harinder Baweja and Tusha Mittal sift facts from fiction:

Theories. Lie detectors on overdrive. Salacious rumours. Umpteen narco analysis tests. Arrests. News alerts and breaking news. Charges and counter-charges and the case just drags on and on. More than a month since the horrific killing of Aarushi Talwar and Hemraj Banjade, the circus macabre continues.

Life could not have changed more dramatically – or tragically – for the dentist couple, Dr Rajesh and Nupur Talwar. Till the night of May 15, Rajesh, Nupur and Aarushi lived a reasonably happy life. The father sat in his daughter’s room, surfing the net and sending e-mails out. The mother was chatting with her daughter and lingered in the 14-year-old’s room for a few minutes after Rajesh retired at about midnight.

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Aarushi murder: a new day, a new theory

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Posted by Namita Bhandare:

Nearly a fortnight after the double murders of 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar and her family servant, Hemraj on May 16, we’re still no closer to the truth.

The Noida police — a bunch of incompetent, idiotic bumblers — claimed they had cracked the case with the arrest of Aarushi’s father, Dr Rajesh Talwar (muttering ominously and, perhaps, threateningly that the mother, Nupur Talwar was not above suspicion). But all we have is a bunch of theories; theories which change with every passing day. Here’s a quick summary:

Theory One:The father did it and it was a cold-blooded, premediated crime

Why? Dr Rajesh Talwar was having an affair; his daughter didn’t approve. She confided about this to the servant Hemraj. So, Dr Talwar killed them both.

Flaws in the theory: Dr Talwar was a doctor. If he had wanted to kill Aarushi and Hemraj, he could have used far more sophisticated methods. Also, if he had killed Hemraj up on the terrace of his building, his concern would have been to try and get rid of the body, not hide it under the cooler and then go off to sleep until 6 am when the maid arrived.

Theory promoted by: Noida police

Theory two: the father did it in the heat of the moment

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Aarushi murder: 10 questions (plus one)

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Posted by Namita Bhandare:

Ten Questions to the Noida Police. Does anyone have any answers?

1. Does an email exchange between a father and his daughter mean that there was no communication between them, or that they had a friendly chatty style?

2. Was Aarushi involved with Hemraj or was she involved with a teenage student of her school (with whom she exchanged 600-odd emails over the past six weeks)?

3. Did Rajesh Talwar allegedly kill his daughter because he was having an affair or because she was?

4. If Rajesh Talwar was upset about his daughter’s alleged closeness to the family servant, why didn’t he just sack him?

5. If the murder was premediated, ie because Dr Talwar was upset (according to the police chargesheet) why didn’t he as a doctor plan a more sophisticated crime using, perhaps poison that might have been less easy to detect?

6. Does the police actually believe that after killing Hemraj and his own daughter, Dr Rajesh Talwar returned to his bedroom and went off to sleep until 6 am?

7. How much is the SSP’s office at Noida worth in terms of ‘hafta’? How much does it contribute to the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati?

8. How much pressure was the Noida police under after Mayawati ordered them to solve the crime within three days?

9. Is the name of the victim Aarushi or Shruti?

10. How difficult is it to discover a dead body at the scene of a high profile crime?

And, one question to Indianews (which showed an MMS that it said showed Aarushi. They were lying). 

1. How do you sleep at night assholes?

Aarushi Talwar: a media circus that says something about us

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Posted by Namita Bhandare: My new column in Mint looks at the double murder of 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar and her family servant, Hemant — and the ensuing media circus with a gullible and desperate press clutching at the angles fed to it by an incompetent police force

Because I was out of town with no television access, I missed the first few days of the Aarushi Talwar murder story where a 14-year-old and the domestic help of the house were found murdered in Noida. Yet, even though I came in late, it was obvious to everyone that the story had more holes in it than a tennis net.

Despite the missing links and the questions that seemed to have no answers, it was clear that this story was a best-seller in terms of reader and viewer interest. It had all the ingredients: a shockingly violent crime; a double murder; a bright schoolgirl who had everything to live for, and middle-class, educated parents who seemed as bewildered as we did in trying to understand the motive.

And sell it did. For the next few days, TV channels and newspapers simply couldn’t give us enough of the Aarushi story. Was it a sex crime? Apparently not, said the police; there was no sign of an assault. Was it a love crime? There was some prurient speculation as police released details of calls made some 600 times to a single number in the past six weeks. Was it honour killing? We struggled with the various labels as we tried to sort out the pieces of the puzzle, grabbing the various angles thrown to us by the police.

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