‘Talwars looked calm, didn’t cry’
26 Nov 2013 5:32 AM IST
It was just a normal morning for me but a call at 6.40 am on 16 May from one of my friends from a vernacular daily forced me to rush towards sector 21 in Noida. I was Noida and Greater Noida correspondent with an English daily and living in sector 66.
‘A servant murdered a girl of Delhi Public School (DPS), Noida in the night and fled from the spot,’ he said. What’s the age? What was the motive? ‘She was studying in Class IX in DPS,’ he added before hanging up in a hurry. The news was really big for us simply because the girl was from DPS.
I rushed to the spot and found many of my media friends already standing there. As I tried to go into the house the deputy superintendent of police Akhilesh Kumar who was under probation in Noida standing at the staircase prevented me saying, ‘Rajesh Talwar is very angry with the media and does not want anybody to go upstairs. Please cooperate.’ I returned to my journalist friends and started sharing information with them. ‘She was raped before murder,’ said a reporter but another senior reporter said that we must wait for the post-mortem report as these are sensitive issues.
At around 12 pm, the body was taken in an ambulance for post-mortem and returned around 2 pm. Back in the office, we filed a report on the basis of police complaint filed by Rajesh Talwar that his servant murdered his daughter and escaped. A senior police officer even told me that Talwar lashed out at then Noida police chief Satish Ganesh for wasting time at his residence rather than sending his team to hunt for the culprit which was later confirmed by Ganesh himself.
On that fateful day, the couple never wept, were composed, and did not speak to media.
I managed to talk to some of Aarushi’s school friends and noted down their contact numbers. One of her close friends told me that he had talked to her around 9 pm on 15 May which later proved a big evidence for me to thrash the timing of death in post-mortem report. The next day we accessed post-mortem report which had mentioned the time of death to be around 24 to 36 hours. This time went to previous night or day, later on it was also reported that the report was doctored.
The discovery of Hemraj’s body, the main accused on first day, from the terrace of the apartment made the case murkier. I visited the spot again just to find some unbelievable things — the mattress on which Aarushi was murdered was lying on roof just at the exit of the staircase. Hemraj’s body was found lying there. It was unbelievable that the person who put the mattress there missed the body. Talwars, however, had already left for Haridwar to immerse the ashes of their daughter in Ganga. For over two months after the incident, it was a routine for us to visit Jalvayu Vihar sector 21 regularly. Noida police sought assistance of Delhi police and then came CBI which reserved all the theories followed by several flip flops.
‘A servant murdered a girl of Delhi Public School (DPS), Noida in the night and fled from the spot,’ he said. What’s the age? What was the motive? ‘She was studying in Class IX in DPS,’ he added before hanging up in a hurry. The news was really big for us simply because the girl was from DPS.
I rushed to the spot and found many of my media friends already standing there. As I tried to go into the house the deputy superintendent of police Akhilesh Kumar who was under probation in Noida standing at the staircase prevented me saying, ‘Rajesh Talwar is very angry with the media and does not want anybody to go upstairs. Please cooperate.’ I returned to my journalist friends and started sharing information with them. ‘She was raped before murder,’ said a reporter but another senior reporter said that we must wait for the post-mortem report as these are sensitive issues.
At around 12 pm, the body was taken in an ambulance for post-mortem and returned around 2 pm. Back in the office, we filed a report on the basis of police complaint filed by Rajesh Talwar that his servant murdered his daughter and escaped. A senior police officer even told me that Talwar lashed out at then Noida police chief Satish Ganesh for wasting time at his residence rather than sending his team to hunt for the culprit which was later confirmed by Ganesh himself.
On that fateful day, the couple never wept, were composed, and did not speak to media.
I managed to talk to some of Aarushi’s school friends and noted down their contact numbers. One of her close friends told me that he had talked to her around 9 pm on 15 May which later proved a big evidence for me to thrash the timing of death in post-mortem report. The next day we accessed post-mortem report which had mentioned the time of death to be around 24 to 36 hours. This time went to previous night or day, later on it was also reported that the report was doctored.
The discovery of Hemraj’s body, the main accused on first day, from the terrace of the apartment made the case murkier. I visited the spot again just to find some unbelievable things — the mattress on which Aarushi was murdered was lying on roof just at the exit of the staircase. Hemraj’s body was found lying there. It was unbelievable that the person who put the mattress there missed the body. Talwars, however, had already left for Haridwar to immerse the ashes of their daughter in Ganga. For over two months after the incident, it was a routine for us to visit Jalvayu Vihar sector 21 regularly. Noida police sought assistance of Delhi police and then came CBI which reserved all the theories followed by several flip flops.
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