Is Arushi CBI's nemesis?
Delhi: The
Central Bureau of Investigation spent four months probing the
sensational Arushi-Hemraj murder case, arrested four people, including
the father of the Noida teen, but is yet to find anything substantial.
This
was corroborated by the findings of a three-member team, which was
constituted by the top investigating agency, to look into the case
afresh.
The team found a new set of fingerprints on a liquor
bottle which also has blood of the victims on it. It does not belong to
any of the accused.
It raises some serious questions about the
probe so far as well as the veracity of the charges brought against the
accused in the case. It also brings into focus the fact that nothing
could be found in the scientific examination of the accused.
Sources said that the blood on the bottle matched that of Arushi's but the person behind the fingerprints is still at large.
Three
people Krishna, Rajkumar and Vijay Mandal were arrested by the CBI and
Arushi's father Dr Rajesh Talwar too was questioned.
Clueless
Before
taking over the case the CBI had said that the chargesheet would be
based on the forensic evidence and the post mortem reports of the
victims. But even after four months, the agency has failed to get any
conclusive proof regarding the murder weapon. Also, the mobile phones
of the deceased are to be recovered and further linkages probed.
The
CBI has been maintaining that the weapon used in the double murder case
was a heavy and sharp-edged one which could be a 'khukri.'
The
CBI recovered several sets of fingerprints but none of them matched
with that of the suspects and all the accused were released on bail.
After
being released on bail, Krishna and Rajkumar have gone back to their
ancestral village in Nepal while Vijay Mandal too has shifted to his
home in West Bengal. The agency is yet to file a chargesheet.
A Letters Rogatory is being sent to Nepal, seeking assistance in locating some witnesses and mobile phones of the deceased.
Nothing new
The sources said that the three-member team has no new evidence or possible murder theory to go ahead with.
The
accused were also made to undergo narco-analysis tests whose findings
are not admissible in courts. Though, based on the reports of the
tests, the agency claimed that Rajkumar was the primary accused and the
other two assisted him, it could not get anything to put that in the
form of a chargesheet.
The history
Arushi
was found killed with her throat slit in her Noida home on May 16. The
Noida police initially blamed the family help Hemraj but backtracked
after his body was found a day later on the terrace of the apartment.
Arushi's
dentist father Rajesh Talwar was arrested a week later. On July 11, CBI
joint director Arun Kumar gave a clean chit to Talwar and accused his
medical assistant Krishna and two others, Raj Kumar and Vijay Mandal,
on the basis of narco analysis tests.
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