Dr Rajesh Talwar killed Aarushi and Hemraj: CBI

April 24, 2013

Dr_Rajesh_TalwarNew Delhi, Apr 24: A CBI officer on Tuesday placed on record his view of the motive for the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder and the manner in which the crime was committed. On the fourth day of his cross-examination, CBI's investigating officer AGL Kaul told the Ghaziabad court that Aarushi's father Dr Rajesh Talwar killed her and Hemraj after finding them in an "objectionable position on Aarushi's bed". Kaul's statement supports Noida police's theory of May 23, 2008.

The two were killed on the intervening night of May 15-16, 2008.

Kaul also recreated the sequence of events relying on circumstantial evidence. However, defence counsel Satyaketu Singh told TOI: "It is all Kaul's imagination. His theory negates the circumstantial evidence he has talked about so far. If Hemraj was attacked in Aarushi's room, how come there was no trace of his blood in that room?" He also said Kaul was unable to explain the mix-up of pillows taken from the rooms of Hemraj and another domestic help, Krishna.

CBI had initially cited a CDFD-Hyderabad report to claim that Krishna's pillow had Hemraj's DNA on it. Later, it verbally informed the Allahabad high court that the submission was based on a typographical error. "For this, CBI also got a fabricated reply from CDFD and they never put anything on record. Kaul personally managed the whole frame-up," Singh alleged.

Kaul told court on Tuesday that both the accused (doctors Rajesh and Nupur Talwar) and the victims (Aarushi and Hemraj) were present in the house.

There was no forced entry or theft, and the accused could not give a clear account of what happened that night, he added.

The postmortem report says death occurred between midnight and 1am on May 16, 2008. Kaul claimed that Dr Rajesh Talwar, who was awake in his room, heard a sound around midnight and came to Hemraj's room through the lobby to investigate. He didn't find the help there but picked up one of the two golf sticks kept there. He next came to Aarushi's room which was shut but not locked.

"He opened the door and saw Aarushi and Hemraj in an objectionable state on her bed," Kaul said, adding, Dr Talwar then attacked Hemraj on the head with the golf stick.

The second blow, he claimed, fell on Aarushi's forehead. By the time Dr Nupur came to the room, Hemraj had fallen off the bed. The Talwar couple checked Aarushi's pulse and found her dead. They got scared and made a plan to kill Hemraj and hide his body, Kaul told court.

He claimed Hemraj was wrapped in a sheet and dragged to the terrace where his throat was slit. The Talwars placed a cooler panel on the body, and locked the stairs from inside, before rearranging things in Aarushi's room and slitting her throat to make the murders seem like the handiwork of one person.

"Nupur cleaned Aarushi's private parts and changed her clothes. After that they cleaned the bloodstains and collected the bloodstained clothes to dispose of in the morning along with the weapon."

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March 8,2020

Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 8: Five more people from

Kerala have tested positive for coronavirus, Health minister, K K Shailaja said on Sunday.

All the five hail from Pathnamthitta district.

While three of them had returned from Italy on February 29, two others were their relatives, the minister said.

All the five have been isolated in Pathnamathitta general hospital and are under observation.

Their tests were confirmed on Saturday night.

Earlier, India's first three positive cases had been reported from the state.

All the three patients, medical students from Wuhan, have been treated and discharged from hospitals.

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June 4,2020

New Delhi, Jun 4: India on Thursday witnessed a record single-day spike of 9,304 coronavirus cases taking the country's tally to 2,16,919, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

The ministry informed that 260 more deaths due to coronavirus were reported in the last 24 hours.

The total number of cases in the country now stands at 2,16,919 including 1,06,737 active cases, 1,04,107 cured/discharged/migrated and 6,075 deaths.

Maharashtra has so far reported 74,860 cases, more than any other state in the country.

In Tamil Nadu, 25,872 cases have been detected so far while Delhi has reported 23,645 coronavirus cases.

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 1,39,485 samples were tested in the last 24 hours whereas 42,42,718 samples have been tested till date.

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June 8,2020

New Delhi, Jun 8: Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has said that CBSE board results can be declared by August 15. The results of both class 10 and 12 will be declared at an interval of just a few days.

However, the decision to open schools will be taken after August keeping in mind the current COVID-19 situation. At present, the Ministry of Human Resource Development has not set any date for reopening schools.

Nishank said during a discussion "We hope that the results of both 10th and 12th class will be declared by August 15. These include the results of previous exams and the results of examinations in July."

On the issue of reopening of schools, Nishank said "after August the process of opening schools will be started."

A final decision in this regard will be taken only after assessing the prevailing conditions. According to the HRD ministry, after August, new sessions will also start in universities.

Meanwhile, the Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi has also written to the HRD ministry on the subject of reopening schools. Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia said in the letter, "Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said some time ago that we have to learn to live with coronavirus. So it would be better to open schools with proper safety measures."

Sisodia said that first of all, we have to assure every child that they are important to us. Everyone has equal rights over the physical and intellectual environment of his school. Education cannot progress beyond online classes only. It would be impossible to pursue education only by calling older children to school and keeping younger children at home.

Several private schools have also suggested measures to the HRD ministry to open schools and safety in schools during this period. However, the ministry is not in a hurry to reopen schools at present. According to senior officials of the ministry, at present, preparations are being made to conduct the remaining board exams of class 10 and 12 between July 1 and 15.

After the examinations, the first priority is to declare the results. Only then can the process of reopening school colleges begin.

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