New Delhi, October 5
Drawing flak for failing to file a chargesheet in the Noida double murder case within the stipulated time, the CBI has formed a three-member core team to re-examine the case.
Sources in the investigating agency said the team would re-examine the case from the beginning and had been mandated to question the people who are accused in the murder of Arushi Talwar (14) and her domestic help Hemraj and verify all evidence.
“Efforts are being made to speed up the case,” a CBI spokesman said.
Following the murder of Arushi and Hemraj on the intervening night of May 15 and 16, the Noida police arrested Arushi’s father Rajesh Talwar on May 23.
However, after the case was taken over by the CBI, the agency gave a clean chit to him on July 11. The sources said the three-member team would piece the evidences together and ascertain whether some gaps were left earlier while probing the blind murder case.
The weapon of offence and the mobile phones of the deceased are to be recovered and further linkages probed. A Letters Rogatory is being sent to Nepal, seeking assistance in locating some witnesses and mobile phones of the deceased.
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’ (Nepalese dagger).
— PTI
