The document summarizes the timeline of events and inconsistencies in the investigation of the murders of Aarushi Talwar and Hemraj in Noida, India in 2008. It describes how the initial investigation by the UP police was botched, evidence was mishandled, and how the CBI took over the case. It outlines inconsistencies in the evidence used to convict Aarushi's parents and points to other potential suspects, like the domestic help Krishna. The document concludes that the case against the Talwars was built on contradictory evidence and sensationalized media coverage rather than forensics or facts.

1. Presented by :
Lavish Khurana
Lokendra Singh Rathore
Manasi Agarwal
Mehak Koul
Mohit Agarwal
Submitted to:
Prof. Antony Cruz

3. May 16, 2008: Aarushi
Talwar found dead with
her throat slit in the
bedroom of her home in
Noida. Domestic help
Hemraj suspected
May 17: Hemraj's body
found on the terrace of
Talwar's residence.
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: 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.
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.

4. 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.
January 25, 2011: Rajesh
Talwar attacked in the
Ghaziabad court
premises.
February 9: Court takes
cognizance 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
November 25, 2013:
Talwar couple convicted
by a special CBI court in
Ghaziabad, sent to Dasna
jail

5.  In 2008, when Arun Kumar took over the investigation, Rajesh Talwar was given bail
because of lack of evidence. Kumar then arrested Krishna, Vijay Mandal and
Rajkumar, the Nepali servants, until then thought to be peripherally involved in the
case. The CBI officer made it clear in the first CBI press conference that prima facie,
the needle of suspicion was pointing towards the servants and not the Talwars.
 It’s been clear that the UP police’s investigation was botched up, that evidence was
trampled upon and forensic tests made virtually impossible in the first fortnight after
the crime. Kumar describes the circumstances under which the case was handed over
to the CBI.
 Arun Kumar and his team were handed over a shoddy investigation. They conducted
an experiment to check if sound could travel from Aarushi’s bedroom to the Talwars’
bedroom when both air conditioners were switched on and there was no traffic sound.
They concluded that no sound could be heard from one room to the other.

6.  "We concluded that since it was impossible for awake
and alert officers to hear sounds from Aarushi’s room,
it would have been impossible for the Talwars to hear
anything that night. “
 Then the narco tests also proved they showed no
deception. So there was no evidence to incriminate
them.” But this evidence was ignored in court.
 AGL Kaul, the Investigating Officer in the case,
sought the conviction of the Talwars. Tanveer Mir, the
defence counsel, said Kaul had strong feelings about
the Talwars.
 In the first 24 hours of the probe, before the UP police
discovered Hemraj’s body, Krishna was questioned. He
sowed the seed that Hemraj had eyes for Aarushi and
that he must have killed her. That Hemraj-Aarushi
angle continued even after Hemraj’s body was found.
We have records that Nupur Talwar called Hemraj
that morning, the phone rang and then it was switched
off. The phone call was traced to Jal Vayu Vihar, where
Krishna lived."

7.  The story that charges the Talwar’s guilty is rife with contradictions –
 The assertion that Aarushi was Raped.
 Initial medical reports claimed that nothing abnormal was indicated in her
sexual organs. By the time the case was closed, her "cervix was found wide open".
 “Misjudgements" and “Misunderstandings"
 The case of Hemraj’s blood-soaked purple pillow cover, where CBI claimed that
the pillow cover was found in Aarushi’s bedroom, however the reality is that it
was discovered from Hemraj’s own room.
 Bharti Mandal’s Change of statement:
 “The door was locked and I never touched the door"
 "I tried to open the door but the door did not open”
 "I am saying what I have been taught to say"

8.  Narco analyses of Krishna, Raj Kumar (other servants linked with the case) and the
Talwar couple reveal that the former two are guilty and the latter innocent.
 Talwars pronounced guilty
 The sensational coverage that Aarushi was a serial flirt, that Talwars were a
couple with "loose sexual morals" given so much weight that the Talwars were
pronounced guilty after a humiliating process of character assassination.
 Forensic samples were never collected and if they had been, then the case could have
been solved very easily
 The CBI analysis also changed the murder weapon that delivered the blunt force. It
was now identified as a golf club, not a kukri , because of the “triangular-shaped head
injury.”