Media can’t term Rajesh Talwar an accused: Lawyer
By IANSSunday, January 2, 2011
NEW DELHI - Rajesh and Nupur Talwar’s lawyer Rebecca John Sunday lashed out at the media for branding Rajesh Talwar an accused in his daughter Aarushi’s murder case, even though the CBI had not.
The couple’s lawyer was irked by a question terming Rajesh Talwar an accused.
“I think the press is going overboard saying that CBI has somehow reached the conclusions. The CBI has only listed certain names, they don’t have any material evidence against Rajesh Talwar, John told reporters.
“From the reports that are appearing in the media, I don’t think that CBI has conclusively established who the killer is. Please do not call him (Rajesh Talwar) an accused here, or don’t pronounce him as a accused, she said.
Fourteen-year-old Aarushi was found murdered under mysterious circumstances in her parents’ Jalvayu Vihar apartment in Noida, Delhi’s suburban town in Uttar Pradesh, May 16, 2008. The family’s domestic help, Hemraj, was also found killed on the flat’s terrace a day later.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) last Wednesday moved a Ghaziabad court seeking its permission to close the Aarushi murder as an unsolved case on grounds of lack of conclusive evidence.
The closure report has named Aarushi’s dentist father Rajesh Talwar as the lone suspect in the case and said the crime scene was heavily “dressed up”, which could only have been done by the parents.
However, there were a number of critical gaps in the circumstances which made it difficult to string together the sequence of events and the motive behind the gruesome murder, the report said.
