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Noida double murder case, refers to the murder of 14 year old Aarushi Talwar and of a domestic help employed by her family, Hemraj, at her home in Noida on the night of 15–16 May 2008. The case received heavy media coverage and has remained unsolved despite considerable efforts by several law enforcement agencies.
On 16th May 2008, Aarushi Talwar, a 14-year-old Class IX student of Delhi Public School in Noida, and the only child of a successful dentist couple, was found dead with her throat slit in her parents' home at Jalvayu Vihar in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Her parents were sleeping in the same flat in other room on the same night and Dr. Rajesh Talwar accessed her room before sleeping while Arushi Talwar was reading a book.[1]
Initially some newspapers came up with a story that on the night the murders were committed, the couple Dr. Rajesh and Dr. Nupur left their flat around midnight and came back around 5 AM. But later CBI clarified with the statement published on website as , "A section of media has reported quoting CBI sources that Dr. Rajesh Talwar and Dr. Nupur Talwar were not present in their house on the night of 15th May, 2008 and more than a dozen rooms were booked in a hotel in Delhi. It is clarified that the news item is speculative and not true. Investigation of the case is progressing diligently."[2]
Various activities like switching off the the router present in Aarushi's room at 3:43am, bottle of alcohol having blood traces confirms the presence of murderer for a longer time inside Talwars' flat. The police suspected insider involvement in the case as the Talwars' flat had three-tier security, which was difficult to breach.[3]. Suspicion initially fell on the family's live-in manservant Hemraj, who was missing. Noida police declared him the prime suspect. However the following day, following a trail of blood in the Talwar home, police found the dead body of Hemraj on the terrace. On 23 May 2008, exactly after a week of disorganized investigation, Meerut Zone's Inspector General Gurdarshan Singh told a press conference that Dr. Rajesh Talwar was arrested after enough evidence was gathered, including the 'strenuous cover-up' attempts by the dentist. Police came up with the story that Rajesh was having an affair with a colleague. Aarushi and Hemraj knew about Rajesh's affair and Aarushi objected to her father's affair while Hemraj started blackmailing Rajesh. The police said that Aarushi's mother Nupur had helped her husband commit the murders.[4]
Later on the same day Dr. Talwar got bail as there was no evidence against him linking him to the crime.[5] His wife, Dr. Nupur Talwar (Arushi Talwar’s mother, who runs a dental clinic), accused the Noida police of framing him, and requested Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati to transfer the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The Central Bureau of Investigation took over the investigation into the murders of Aarushi and Hemraj on 1 June 2008, forming a 25-member team in an attempt to crack the case. Soon after the CBI took over the case, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati gave transfer orders to senior police officers who were part of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) that had previously been in charge of the investigation, including the Noida Senior Superintendent of Police, Satish Ganesh, and Meerut Inspector General, Gurdarshan Singh.In addition, the deputation of CBI officer Arun Kumar, formerly a member of the Uttar Pradesh Police, who was in charge of the investigation also ended in July 2008.[6]
Lie detector test including polygraph test and Narco Analysis were also conducted on various suspects including Dr. Rajesh Talwar , Kraishna (alias Kishan), compounder of Dr. Rajesh Talwar, Vijay Mandal, the domestic help of a neighbor of the Talwars but nothing could be clarified about the case.[7]
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