2. May 16, 2008:AarushiTalwar found dead with her throat slit in the
bedroom of her home in Noida. Domestic help Hemraj, a Nepali, suspected
of murder.
May 17: Hemraj's body found on the terrace ofTalwar's residence.
Followed by:
May 18: Police say murders done with surgical precision, insider job
suspected.
May 19: Talwar's former Nepali domestic help Vishnu Sharma named as
suspect.
May 21: The Delhi police joins murder probe.
May 22: Family under suspicion, probe begins on honour killing angle, the
police quiz Aarushi's close friend whom she spoke to 688 times in the 45 days
preceding her murder.
May 23: Rajesh Talwar arrested for the twin murders.
June 1: CBI takes over the probe in the case.
3. June 13: Domestic help of Rajesh Talwar, Krishna, arrested by CBI.
June 20: Lie detection test of Rajesh Talwar conducted at CFSL, Delhi.
June 25: Second lie detection test conducted on Nupur Talwar. Her first lie
detection test was found inconclusive.
June 26: CBI declares the case to be a "blind case".
Rajesh Talwar refused bail by the special magistrate in Ghaziabad.
July 3: The Supreme Court rejects a PIL which challenged the conduct of
narco-analysis test on the accused.
July 12: Rajesh Talwar freed on bail from Dasna Jail in Ghaziabad.
January 5, 2010: CBI moves court to conduct narco test on Talwar couple.
December 29: CBI submits closure report. Clean chit to servants but points
fingers at parents.
4. January 25, 2011: Rajesh Talwar attacked in the Ghaziabad court premises.
February 9: Court takes cognisance of CBI report, charges Aarushi's
parents with murder and destruction of evidence.
February 21: Couple approaches the Allahabad High Court for quashing
trial court summons.
March 18: High Court dismisses their plea to quash summons and orders
initiation of proceedings against them.
March 19, 2011: The couple approaches the Supreme Court which stays the
trial against them.
January 6, 2012: Supreme Court dismisses Talwar's plea and allows the trial
to proceed.
June 11, 2012: Trial starts before Special Judge S Lal.
October 10, 2013: Final arguments begin.
November 25, 2013: Talwar couple convicted by a special CBI court in
Ghaziabad, sent to Dasna jail.
6. The witnesses were also allegedly prepared by CBI to give testimony in the court
according to what the investigators taught them, he says.
Tanveer Ahmed Mir, counsel for Aarushi’s parents Rajesh and Nupur Talwar also
claimed that the testimony by witnesses in court was what the investigators taught them.
He was part of a panel discussion organised by Penguin Random House and Mumbai
Mirror -“Speak for Aarushi” in connection with journalist Avirook Sen’s book “Aarushi”.
According to Sen, the defence arguments were not fully heard and there were glitches in
the CBI investigations in the case.
He also claims that there might have been tutoring and possible blackmail of some key
witnesses.
7. “I believe that in the CBI itself there was a very strong conflict and that conflict brewed up
between the second investigating officer and Nupur. Now what used to happen is that the
investigating officer used to spend lot of time talking to the court. Rajesh would absorb on
all what was being thrown at him and Nupur would give it back. So, the case became too
personal between the investigators and the family,” said Mir.
The defence lawyer also claimed that all summons from CBI would come to the Talwars
from an email id hemraj@jalvayuvihar.com which would un-nerve them.
The witnesses were also allegedly prepared by CBI to give testimony in the court
according to what the investigators taught them,
.
By: PTI | New Delhi | Updated: August 28, 2015 1:11 pm
Published in : Online edition of “The Indian Express”
9. This is how Dr.
RajeshTalwar killed
Aarushi and Hemraj
Slide: (1/5)
CBIAdditional SPAGL Kaul, who
led the second probe team, went
into the motive behind the
sensational double murder of 14-
year old Aarushi and domestic
servant Hemraj at the residence of
dentist couple on the intervening
night of May 15-16, 2008.
Explaining the sequence of events
which took place on the fateful
night, Kaul said Rajesh heard some
noise and went to Hemraj's room
but did not find him there.
"There were two golf sticks lying in
Hemraj's room one of which
RajeshTalwar picked up. He
opened the door and found
Aarushi and Hemraj were in
objectionable position on the bed
of Aarushi," Kaul said in his
testimony.
According to CBI:
10. This is how Dr.
RajeshTalwar killed
Aarushi and Hemraj
Slide: (2/5)
Kaul said finding them in such a
position, RajeshTalwar hit on
Hemraj's head with golf stick. By
the time he gave a second blow the
servant's head moved from the
position and the stick hit Aarushi
on her forehead
According to CBI:
11. This is how Dr.
RajeshTalwar killed
Aarushi and Hemraj
Slide: (3/5)
Kaul said when golf sticks were
seized the stick heads were not
sealed separately.
"TheV or U shaped injury on
Aarushi's forehead could have
been caused by the use of golf
stick head," he said.
.
"By the time the injured Hemraj
had fallen from the bed. Both
checked the pulse of Aarushi and
found her near-dead which scared
them and planned that the servant
should be executed so that no one
comes to know about the
incident," Kaul said before the
court.
According to
CBI:
12. This is how Dr.
RajeshTalwar killed
Aarushi and Hemraj
Slide: (4/5)
The duo wrapped Hemraj's body in
a bed-sheet and dragged him to
terrace where they slit his throat,
covering the body with a cooler
panel, Kaul said.
He said after coming to the room,
they dressed up the crime scene by
arranging the bedsheet and toys.
They slitAarushi's throat, to ensure
that wounds on Hemraj and their
daughter look similar, and Nupur
cleaned her private parts, he said.
According to CBI:
13. This is how Dr.
RajeshTalwar killed
Aarushi and Hemraj
Slide: (5/5)
Giving details of his findings, the
officer said the dentist couple
cleaned blood stains, disturbed the
router, collected all the clothes
which were used to clean blood
and also the small sharp edged
weapon used in the killing with an
intention to dispose them off.
"They cleaned the golf stick which
was used in the murder and hid it
in the loft of Aarushi's bedroom.
They locked the door of Aarushi's
room from outside.They locked
the outermost door from inside
and wooden door from outside and
entered the flat through Hemraj's
room, the door of which opened
between these two entry door," he
said.
According to CBI:
14. Journalist Avirook Sen has
written "Aarushi", a new
book on the murder of 13-
year-old AarushiTalwar.
1. The simple math used by the CBI of there were four people in the house, two
are dead, so the other two are their killers does not work. But despite having
the evidence, the CBI chose not to pursue that line of investigation at all.
There are clear indications of the presence of other domestic helpers (who
were arrested and then released) in their narco narrations
2. The CBI never seized any of theTalwars' dental equipment that it claims
was used to kill Aarushi. In fact, the investigators had no clue what a
dental scalpel looked like, leave alone understand what kind of cuts it
could inflict; they didn't even bother to buy one to check.
As for Rajesh Talwar's golf clubs - the one that had supposedly
been 'cleaned' (and was therefore the weapon of offence) was not the one
that the prosecution presented in court as the weapon.
3. Witnesses may have been coerced/blackmailed/schooled. The clearest proof of this is in the
testimony of domestic help Bharti Mandal, who worked briefly with the Talwars, where she says
she was testifying exactly what was 'explained' to her.
4. The trial judge who convicted theTalwars ignored what was happening and being recorded in
his own court. For instance, in his judgment, he attempted to establish the motive of the crimes
by saying that Hemraj's pillow and blood were found in Aarushi's room
15. 5. The complete disregard for the integrity of forensic evidence: several pieces of evidence
were illegally unsealed in this case.The pillow covers, golf clubs, clothing, all of these were
compromised. Photographs of the crime scene were also manipulated
6. The crudely manipulative conduct of the prosecution: once again, this a matter of record
and detailed in the book.The CBI invented a macabre e-mail address to send all its official
communication to theTalwars, a tactic to intimidate them
7. Witnesses were dropped because they would have blown apart the prosecution case.The
CBI started with a list of 141 relied-upon witnesses, it stopped at 39. Many of those listed
and later dropped had contrary tales to tell about what happened at the crime scene and
during the investigation.
8. TheTalwars weren't given access to critical documents despite High Court orders. In order
to assess whether a DNA report had got things right, one needs the details of the tests
conducted, or the raw data. The Allahabad High Court quoted British law extensively to say
that the defence had the right to this data so that it could approach its own experts
9. . Several of the documents submitted to court appear forged: this list is long, and the
details are in the book. But among these documents are panchnamas (police documents)
into which sentences were inserted; tags of forensic labs that were supposedly official were
written out on scraps of paper, these were crude and error-filled.
10. The unrelenting focus on the conduct of theTalwars. If this was such an open-and-shut
case, then why wasn't hard evidence relied upon? Why was it that witnesses were simply
brought in to say theTalwars weren't weeping when their daughter was found dead?
Disclaimer:The opinions expressed within this article are the personal opinions of the author.
16. Some 28 fingerprint samples were lifted from the scene of crime and handed over to the CBI
on May 20.This was 10 days before the case was formally handed over to the CBI. Most of the
fingerprints, especially those on the whiskey bottle, were smudged.
About 70% of the evidence were destroyed by people (media persons & neighbours) who
came to see the crime scene, prior to the arrival of Police. In total 90% of the evidence was
manipulated.
The "Hemraj killed Aarushi" theory was gospel for a full day. Rajesh repeatedly told the
police officers to pursue Hemraj and not to waste time in his flat. He dissuaded them from
opening the locked terrace door and even offered the policemen Rs 25,000 to rush to Hemraj's
village in Nepal.
The police leaked Aarushi's text messages, social media posts, an email to her father in
which she apologises for something he didn't approve of. Even as the investigation began, a
senior police official told reporters that Aarushi was "characterless".
April 2011: CBI says "only parents could have killedAarushi"
8 June 2012: Trial begins
26 November 2013: Rajesh and NupurTalwar found guilty of murdering Aarushi
and Hemraj and sentenced to life
17. Based on Noida double
murder case
Directed by :
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Produced by:
Vineet Jain
Vishal Bhardwaj
Written by:
Vishal Bhardwaj
Starring:
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Konkona Sen Sharma
Neeraj Kabi
Sohum Shah
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