The Perfect Murder

Arushi Talwar a bright 13 year old kid was found murdered in her apartment on the night of 15th May 2008 in NOIDA, India .A day later the body of Hemraj who worked as a servant in the Talwar’s household was found on the terrace. Arushi’s parents who were present in the house when the double murder took place were the initial suspects as the door was locked from inside and there were no signs of any forced entry into their house. The CBI swung into action gathering all bits and pieces of information, collecting evidences and interrogating friends and relatives of the Talwars. Days turned into months but neither the motive for the gruesome murders could be established nor any circumstantial evidence found nailing the killers.
The CBI reluctantly gave their report to the court that it would be closing the case as ‘’unsolved’’ due to lack of any concrete proof and making no headway whatsoever in pursuing a ‘lost’ case which was akin to putting a spanner in their works .The Court forced the CBI to have a re-look into the case which already had hit the headlines with the entire country demanding justice for young Arushi albeit posthumously.

A series of narco, brain mapping and lie detector tests were conducted on Rajesh and NupurTalwar in which the father /mother duo came out unscathed. All methods of breaking them down psychologically by barraging them into questions in separate rooms for hours on end too did not materialize.
Outside the court every person put forward their own hypothesis and majority concluded that Arushi was found in a compromising position with their servant and the parents hit her fatally in the heat of the moment killing her and after realizing that their only child was dead brutally killed their servant as well.
We are no one to judge and character assasinate a kid with such illogical and baseless allegations.A section of the media too played a mean part in projecting such deplorable liasions.
This hypothesis though very vague and arbitrary in nature gathered support amongst the masses and the police too towed this figment of imagination and prevailed on the court to make their final decision based on this CRUDE theory.

Based on the evidences given by the friends and relatives of the Talwar family it was very much evident that it was a small, content and a happy family filled with ample love and affection for everyone in their midst. Even if the child was killed in the heat of the moment by the father,sustained interrogations would have broken one of them at least the mother, who unilaterally would have come out of denial and confessed to killing their only progeny.
The most surprising thing which occurred at the Talwars household is the Police could not locate the body of Hemraj when it scouted the entire house for any leads after Arushi was found murdered.
The police also later claimed that there were total of 7 people in the house when the murders took place. The Servant’s quarter was inside the house and access in/out of the house was possible from here.This vital piece of evidence was not considered at the time of final evaluation and the eventual verdict.
Who were they and why were they not interrogated? Lot of other questions went abegging as well.
The assailants underwent a pain staking effort and managed to clean up the area and wipe off crucial evidences leaving minimal traces for the police to act upon.
This case is too twisted and either the murder is a very well executed one- The Perfect Murder or the police have botched it up miserably and let the real culprits escape by not gathering enough evidences in the shortest possible time span earlier on.

The Mid-Day Horror Story

Horror as shown in films or depicted in books since time immemorial has always been associated or programmed to strike terror in viewers at MID-NIGHT.

 People in Chhapra, a city in the saran district of Bihar were traumatized and froze with fear and helplessness ironically not at the dreaded mid-night but at a very earthly mid-day hour which spelt an agonizing death to 22 innocent kids. The kids had just finished their mid-day meal satisfying their hunger pangs amidst laughter, chattering and discussing their plans for the day when they started having acute stomach pains along with a severe bout of vomiting spells. The school administration as usual had no clue to this and some of the kids were rushed o a nearby medical centre which locals claim had no facilities to handle this crisis. The nearest hospital was a good 50kms away and the kids were unceremoniously shoved into ‘slower than snail ‘public transport and the crucial time to give a life-saving antidote was lost and the lives of the kids too perished along with it.

The state administration instead of minimizing or mitigating the affected people worked over time in the media to defend itself in face of the opposition party’s onslaught against it. The opposition parties sensing the opportunity got enough ammunition to provoke arsonists and anti social elements who started burning and pelting stones at vehicles. This unruly and pathetic behavior of these crooks resulted in roads being blocked and denial of emergency first aid to many of the afflicted kids who by then were writhing in agony.

It is preposterous to state that this deed was pre-planned to get at the state govt. administration with the 2014 elections round the corner. We all know that the quality of the food served at mid may meals in many states are of inferior quality and barely edible. Poor parents are forced to send their wards to such schools in the sincere hope that their kids can have the LUXURY of eating at least one square meal a day. It was heart rending to quote one affected parent who said’’- it would have been better that my son to be a living illiterate than being a dead literate ’’.  

The head master of the school is on the run and the law will catch up with him/her sooner or later. Precious lives have been lost because of the callous attitude on part of both, the school and the govt. authorities in charge of providing the ration rather it’s a cold blooded homicide. The affected families have been scarred forever and perhaps never come out of this unanticipated traumatic sludge hitting them.

Compensating deaths in event of a tragedy has become a mere ritual in India. The Chief minister quickly sanctioned a couple of lacs as a stand by measure to the aggrieved family. This money is gouged out of the tax payers kitty which is needed for developmental projects in the country. One of the Prime reasons for remaining in the ‘’developing country ‘’ mode is the lack of finance needed to implement capital intensive projects.

 Eventually time will heal and erase these dreaded memories. Remedies and measures to ward off such avoidable tragedies in the future must be put in place.

What has gone will never come back but the authorities all over the country can certainly take this tragedy as a wake- up call and infuse confidence building measures amongst both the students and their parents by striving to provide healthy and carefully prepared wholesome nutritious packed food along with the education to the under-privileged and bridge the ever widening chasm existing between the haves and the have-nots.