Update (June 23, 2008): Krishnas custody has been extended again. What, another bout of narco-tests and lie-detector tests? I think the CBI will drive this guy nuts and then declare that although he has lost his mind it was he who had committed both the murders. Of course in his deranged state of mind he wont be able to deny it or defend himself; he will simply admit. The CBI is just waiting for the media and the public to get bored of this case and then they will have a field day.
Another confusing thing is the murder weapon. Recently the CBI had said that the murder weapon was flushed down in Arushis bathroom. For almost a fortnight Krishnas niece has been telling the news channels that Krishnas badly blunted khukri has been lying at home and the CBI never came to get it. And now the CBI has got the khukri from Krishnas place. So what happens to the theory of the flushed down weapon? Flushed down?
Update (June 20, 2008): Krishna has now supposedly told the CBI that it was Rajkumar (Anita Duranis servant) who killed Arushi and later on Hemraj, and Krishna saw her being first assaulted in order to be raped, then injured, and eventually killed. This is truly bizarre. Now theyll say the weapon wasnt a Khukri and it was some other weapon that was used. The statement is probably being changed because now there is too much public support for Krishna. So much happened and the parents kept sleeping. I wonder if someone lived downstairs. In multi-storyed flats the roofs are generally so sound sensitive that the people downstairs can hear the sound even when children run around in the flat above. If so much fighting and physical violence took place, how come nobody heard a sound? And that too at night, when everything is so quiet despite the air-conditioners and coolers.
Beside, why did they choose to come at night for the assault knowing that everyone would be at home: both the parents and the servant. Why didn’t they choose a time when she was alone at home? Were the parents not supposed to be there that day and was it known to the culprits?
Is this the smartest investigative agency the country has? Pathetic, to say the least. They cant even fabricate properly.
The old post follows
According to the latest development it seems the CBI will go to ludicrous lengths to ensure compounder Krishnas conviction. By hook or by crook the CBI is hell bent on proving that it was Krishna who committed the twin murders of Arushi Talwar and her man-servant Hemraj. According the the CBI theory (whatever news Im getting while working), Krishna first murdered Hemraj, took the body to the roof and hid it under the coolers cover. Then he murdered Arushi with the same khukri (see on Wikipedia what khukri means) and then flushed the khukri down in Arushis bathroom (correction: he first murdered Arushi and then Hemraj). Then he broke both Arushis and Hemrajs cell phones and threw them into the water tank on the roof. All this happened while the girls parents soundly slept. After putting the body on the roof and throwing the phones into the water tank he locked the door that goes to the roof (the police found the door locked in the morning of the murder).
Some conflicting facts: Arushis bedroom door, due to some weird reason, was always locked from the outside whenever she went to sleep, and nobody has so far asked the parents why this used to happen. But there was another door through Hemrajs room from where one could enter Arushis bedroom. The keys of Arushis locked doors were always with Arushis parents (now why would Hemraj keep the keys unless he had duplicate keys?). But the next day when Arushis body was found, the door was unlocked, wide open. So someone would go to great lengths to lock the door to the roof after dumping Hemrajs body there but would not lock back Arushis bedroom after murdering her. The blood stains on the outer side of the door also proved that the door was wide open even when Arushi was being murdered.
The parents too sound quite shady, and this is why the father was arrested in the first place (and the CBI is doing its best to prove that hes innocent, as of now). In the morning when the maid turned up, the mother told the maid that the main entrance door was locked from the outside. She told the maid to go down, where she would throw the keys from the balcony. The maid went down and the mother threw the keys down sounding perfectly normal. When the maid entered the house, she found both the mother and the father crying. Had the mother tried going through Hemrajs room. she could have easily gone out herself and opened the door from the outside. The police, who totally decimated the crime scene by acting prodigiously clumsy and unprofessional, half-heartedly proved that it was simply not possible to go to the roof without creating lots of noise and waking up the family as the door made loud noises while being shut and opened. And anyway, with so much happening in the house, how could have they kept sleeping? Of course the father, a high-profile dentist, said that he had consumed liquor before going to bed. Nonetheless, he was arrested as police thought the girl and the servant had been murdered as either honor killing, or to keep an elicit affair secret, or something more sinister. Both the CBI and the policy have been trying to ascertain what clothes the couple were wearing when they had gone to bed, and strangely, none of them can recall.
It was reported that after finding the body with a slit throat and a badly bashed up face, they were calling up relatives and colleagues instead of the police. After the police had conducted the initial inquisition they promptly performed the last rites and took the ashes to Haridwar and consigned them to the Ganges. The Hindus record the death details at Haridwar and there they mentioned that Arushi had died at 2 A.M. All this pointed the needle of suspicion at them.
The difference between the haves and the havenots has also come to the fore. The CBI is arresting servants left and right, and the joint director of CBI immediately called a press conference to deny that Nupur Talwar (Arushis mother) was going to be arrested, as the news of her imminent arrest began to appear on the Internet. Contrary to that, Krishna has been under arrest for more than a month and the CBI has been conducting all sorts of psychological interrogations of him even without courts order. Rajesh Talwars (Arushis father) lawyers are always present when he is being interrogated. Krishna had cried in front the TV cameras that he was being tortured and falsely implicated to save someone elses butt.
Whoever has murdered Arushi and Hemraj, neither police nor the CBI has come out convincing. Ill post more thoughts on this case later on. In the meantime, here are some intriguing questions.
