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Talwar in CBI remand

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: A Noida court on Monday granted one-day remand of Rajesh Talwar, main accused in the murder of his teenaged daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj, to the Central Bureau of Investigation.

He will now be produced in the agency’s designated court in Ghaziabad on Tuesday.

The agency took Dr. Talwar into custody after a medical examination at the Dasna jail. He was then brought to the CBI headquarters at CGO Complex here.

It is learnt that the CBI sleuths questioned Dr. Talwar till late on Monday night about the sequence of events before and after the bodies of Aarushi and Hemraj were discovered.

They were looking for contradictions in the statements made by him and those of Dr. Talwar’s wife, their maid servant and their driver, having obtained their recorded statements from the Noida police.

This would also enable the agency to reconstruct the sequence of events leading up to the murders.

Outsider

As the door to Dr. Talwar’s top floor flat was found latched from the outside by his maid servant, who was the first to find the dentist couple mourning their daughter on May 16 morning, the agency is also investigating the possibility of an outsider having committed the double murder.

Earlier in the day, a forensic team once again visited Dr. Talwar’s house at Sector 25 of Noida in search of more clues.

Although the CBI is not treating Dr. Talwar as an accused now, it may seek his custody for interrogation.

The agency may also conduct lie-detector tests on various persons, including Dr. Talwar.

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