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Talwar sent to 14 days judicial custody

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NEW DELHI: In another twist to the sensational double murder case of young Aarushi and family’s domestic help Hemraj, the CBI has found that several photographs taken with the cameras of the teenager and her parents have been deleted. One of cameras was gifted to Aarushi by her parents a few days before she was murdered.

The experts found that over 20 of the 28 photographs taken with Aarushi’s digital camera and some taken with her parents’ camera have been deleted. They retrieved some of the photographs from the memory chips.

Meanwhile, main suspect Rajesh Talwar’s laptop and the hard disk of Aarushi’s computer were sent to a Hyderabad forensic laboratory for examination. The report is expected within a month.

On Thursday afternoon, Dr. Talwar was produced in a designated court in Ghaziabad after a two-day remand. The court sent him to 14 days judicial custody.

Earlier in the day, he was again subjected to a polygraph test after the first round of lie-detector test did not yield any significant results. The test report is expected on Friday, but the CBI was banking more on forensic evidence gathered from the crime scene. “At this stage, we have not come across anything conclusive in the case,” said a CBI official, adding that efforts were on to unravel the motive behind the murders as that could lead them to the killer(s).

The agency has also sought video footage of the first two days of coverage of the case from various television news channels. It would go through the footage for information about the case, including the condition in which Hemraj’s body was found on the terrace of the Talwars’ Sector 25 house in Noida. The CBI recorded the statement K.K. Gautam, the former police officer who had discovered Hemraj’s body, and again questioned Dr. Talwar’s wife Nupur on Thursday.

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