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New Delhi: The Aarushi Talwar murder mystery will remain just that—a mystery. The CBI on Wednesday admitted that the probe had hit a wall, and filed a closure report in a special court in Ghaziabad, saying it had been unable to zero in on any suspect and its two-and-ahalf years of investigation had not yielded enough evidence to nail anyone. It sought the court's permission to close the probe.
Aarushi, the 14-year-old daughter of a well-known dentist couple from Delhi, was killed in her room while her parents Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were home. The body of their live-in servant, 45-year-old Yama Prasad Banjade alias Hemraj, initially thought to be a suspect, was found the next day on the terrace of the Talwars’ Noida home. While Aarushi's body was found with the throat slit and a fatal head injury, Hemraj had been bludgeoned to death with a heavy weapon.
In its statement, the CBI, without giving details of its failure, said, “The agency has filed a final report for the closure of the case on grounds of insufficient evidence in the competent court.” CBI spokeswoman and DIG Binita Thakur said the agency, in the final report, had detailed all the evidence it had gathered during its probe and the gaps in them. The CBI refused to elaborate on the reasons for filing the closure report, saying the matter was sub-judice. It said it would comply with the further orders of the court. “In view of the directive of the Supreme Court, the CBI is not in a position to share any further details regarding the case with the media,” Thakur said.
DEAD END NO ONE KILLED AARUSHI!
CBI says evidence insufficient to continue probe on prosecution lines No motive established. Closest CBI got to motive was ‘‘immediate provocation’’ That was original premise of Noida police which CBI trashed, instead blaming the three servants. But the agency failed to get enough to file a chargesheet One of the murder weapons was a golf club belonging to Durranis, family friends of Talwars. But CBI couldn’t link it to assailant CBI’s last-ditch attempt to get evidence through brain mapping yielded no clues
STUMBLING BLOCKS Servant Hemraj’s phone never found Certain crucial documents concerning Aarushi’s post-mortem went ‘missing’ from Noida district hospital Suspense over Aarushi murder weapon, destruction of proof The probe into the double murder of Aarushi Talwar and Hemraj that shocked the capital was being supervized by CBI director A P Singh, who is believed to have personally examined several aspects of the case after the new CBI team took over the probe. In its closure report, the agency claimed that Aarushi, a class 9 student of DPS Noida, was suspected to have been killed using a golf club, but investigators were unable to conclusively establish the murder weapon. The club, according to CBI officials, belonged to Rajesh Talwar's family friend, but, again, the agency was silent about the person who could have used it to kill the teenager.
Agency sources also cited tampering of evidence, including Aarushi's vaginal swab being swapped, as a major hurdle in the case. The swab, which was sent for tests, was found to be someone else's and had been changed at the Noida hospital. However, the CBI failed to establish the culpability of the person and establish the links that may have led to the destruction of the evidence.
The murder, and later the probe, has been mired in controversies, ranging from tampering of evidence—the crime scene was cleaned up before cops arrived—to allegations of attempts to influence the probe. After UP cops failed to reach any conclusion, the case was handed over to the CBI, which started its probe under joint director Arun Kumar on June 1, 2008, and arrested Talwar. But when the team failed to make headway even after one-anda-half years, the agency transferred the probe to a new squad headed by SP, CBI, Neelabh Kishore. During the final stages of the now-aborted probe, the special CBI team had again questioned the Talwars at length and also subjected them to tests to corroborate their versions. It had also sent the golf club, described as a crucial piece of evidence, to the UK for a forensic test called the Low Copy Number DNA profiling. This test can detect even degraded DNA in an object, and help match its user.
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CASE ENTERS BLIND ALLEY
May 16, 2008: Aarushi Talwar, daughter of a dentist couple, found dead with her throat slit in the bedroom of her Noida flat; domestic help Hemraj suspected
May 17: Hemraj’s body found on the terrace. Noida SHO shifted for lapses in investigations
May 19: Talwar’s former Nepalese help Vishnu Sharma named suspect
May 21: Delhi police join probe
May 22: Family under suspicion; honour killing angle probed
May 23: Aarushi’s dad Rajesh Talwar held
May 26: Anita Durrani denies illicit relations with Rajesh. Police say Aarushi objected to this relationship
May 27: Family demands CBI investigation
June 1: CBI registers case against Rajesh
June 4: Talwar undergoes lie-detector test
June 13: CBI arrests Rajesh’s Nepalese compounder Krishna
June 25: Second lie detection test on Aarushi’s mother, Nupur Talwar
June 26: The CBI declares it a ‘blind case’
July 12: Rajesh released from jail
Sept 4, ’09: CBI says Aarushi’s DNA evidence has been tampered with
Sept 9: CBI reconstitutes team probing Aarushi case
Sept 14: Aarushi’s cellphone recovered
Dec 29, 2010: CBI files closure report in a court citing lack of key evidence
