The CBI, the chief investigation agency in India on 29 December 2010, proposed to wind up the Aarushi murder case, as it had not been able to gather enough evidence to identify the murderer.
The CBI did not even inform Aarushi’s parents of its proposal. Aarushi’s father, Dr. Rajesh Talwar,is reported to have said to the pressmen that “"I got to know of it from the media. And, there has been no communication from the agency”. "We had pinned our hopes on the investigation but it's been shattered.” he added.
Fourteen years old, eighth standard girl, named Aarushi was found lying dead on her bed at her home in Noida on 15-May-2008. She had been murdered. Her throat had been slit open. And there were stab marks on her face. Later Hansraj, the servant at her house was also found dead on the roof the next day. Earlier Noida police had suspected his involvement in the murder. Aarushi was the only child of dentist Dr. Rajesh Talwar and Mrs. Nupur Talwar.
Police arrested Dr. Rajesh and kept behind the bars for about two months. Then he was released saying that there was no evidence against him. At the initial stages of the investigation, the Noida police was accused of cocking up evidences and wiping out existing clues. Many stories about Aarushi that did the rounds in those days were obscene to say the least.
On 1 June 2008 the CBI took up the case. A former CBI official was reported to have claimed that there was enough evidence to bring the culprits to justice. Though everyone including her parents hoped that the CBI would solve the mystery surrounding the case nothing happened. The CBI had arrested Krishna, his medical assistant and two other servants named Raj Kumar and Vijay Mandal. But soon they were also released for lack of evidence.
Though nobody knew what actually happened it was reported that evidences had been tampered with by some powerful hands. Aarushi’s vaginal swabs had been substituted with others. And the pathology reports went missing. How did all this happen without the knowledge of the police is a question that has not been answered yet. The Noida police had meanwhile recovered Aarushi’s black Nokia N72 mobile phone from Bulandshahr in Utter Pradesh.
The Ghaziabad court In January 2010 allowed the CBI to subject Aarushi’s parents to narco analysis tests. They underwent the test at a laboratory in Ahmedabad in February. Nothing emerged from it either.
Legal experts are divided over the CBI move. Santhi Bhushan termed it as ‘a failure of the CBI’. Prominent lawyer Lekhi said that some powerful hands present at the site of murder are trying to cover up the case. She said, “We all know how the CBI is used and misused”.
Let us hope that the Ghaziabad court asks the CBI to reinvestigate the case and bring the culprits to justice.
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