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Police chasing many clues in Noida

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Double murder case proving to be a tough nut to crack
Police pin hopes on Aarushi’s mobile phone call details

LUCKNOW: With the Noida double murder case proving to be a tough nut to crack, five days after the sensational killing of the teenaged school girl Aarushi Talwar and the family’s domestic help Hemraj, the police have now pinned their hopes on call details of the missing mobile phones of the deceased for reaching any conclusion.

Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order and Special Task Force) Brij Lal said here on Tuesday that the phone call details were being examined by the Noida police and the Special Task Force but nothing definite had emerged so far. The mobile phones remain untraced, he added.

Mr. Lal said the case had not been worked out so far and no arrests had been made though over a dozen persons, including Aarushi’s parents and close relatives, had been interrogated by the police. He ruled out the possibility of pressure being applied on the investigating teams in a bid to hush up the case considering that it involved a family belonging to the affluent upper middle class section of society.He said Aarushi’s autopsy report showed presence of semi-digested food in her stomach at the time of her murder on the night of May 15. The post-mortem report of Hemraj showed the presence of liquid in his stomach when he was murdered, apparently the same night, he added.

Mr. Lal said Hemraj’s viscera had been sent for forensic examination to find out whether the liquid was some intoxicant or liquor, adding that Aarushi’s viscera had also been sent for medical examination. The forensic report is awaited.

The imprint of a bloodstained palm found on the terrace of the Noida Sector 25 house of the Talwars, from where the body of Hemraj was recovered the next day, is being seen as a crucial lead that would help in working out the case. Mr. Lal said the fingerprints do not match any of the persons interrogated by the police so far, or with those of Hemraj.

Several theories are being floated about the possible cause of the double murder. The latest is the sex angle. Refuting this, Mr. Lal said the medical examination of 14-year-old Aarushi’s body had ruled out the possibility of rape. The Noida police and the senior officers here, however, have been unable to give a convincing answer to the reported finding by the investigating teams of the deceased girl being kept under lock and key in her room by her parents. “Nothing can be disclosed till the police have gathered clinching evidence,” said the ADG.

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