Witness claims golf clubs handed over to CBI two years after Aarushi ‘murder’
19 Sept 2012 7:45 AM IST
A CBI witness on Tuesday told a special court here that the driver of Rajesh Talwar, father of slain teenager Aarushi, handed over two golf clubs to the investigation officer two years after the crime.
The Central Bureau of Investigation [CBI] alleged that the clubs were used in the murder. CBI witness Laxman Singh told Special Judge S Lal that Talwar’s driver Umesh Sharma handed over the clubs to the probe agency.
Defence lawyer Manoj Shishodia questioned Laxman Singh claiming that a forensic team sealed the golf kit and clubs in September 2009 while he claimed that Umesh handed over the two clubs to the investigating officer on 2 August 2010. How was it possible to hand over clubs that had earlier been sealed by forensic experts? asked Shishodia. Contrary to this, Umesh Sharma during his testimony claimed that the CBI presented the entire kit of golf clubs before him and asked him to identify any two from them, he said.
Umesh Sharma’s testimony, which remained inconclusive during the last hearing on 14 September, was concluded on Tuesday. After Umesh Sharma’s testimony was over, the CBI presented their witness Laxman Singh who revealed that the driver handed over two sticks to the investigating officer before him.
After the testimony and the cross-examination of the two witnesses, Special Judge S Lal adjourned the hearing till 21 September. Aarushi’s mother Nupur Talwar and her father are accused in the murder of their daughter and destroying evidence. Nupur Talwar was arrested on 30 April. She challenged in the apex court the 31 May rejection of her bail plea by the Allahabad High Court. She is lodged in Dasna jail in Ghaziabad. Her husband is out on bail. Aarushi, 14, was found murdered at her parents’ Noida residence on 16 May 2008. The body of her domestic help Hemraj was found the next day on the terrace of the house.
The Central Bureau of Investigation [CBI] alleged that the clubs were used in the murder. CBI witness Laxman Singh told Special Judge S Lal that Talwar’s driver Umesh Sharma handed over the clubs to the probe agency.
Defence lawyer Manoj Shishodia questioned Laxman Singh claiming that a forensic team sealed the golf kit and clubs in September 2009 while he claimed that Umesh handed over the two clubs to the investigating officer on 2 August 2010. How was it possible to hand over clubs that had earlier been sealed by forensic experts? asked Shishodia. Contrary to this, Umesh Sharma during his testimony claimed that the CBI presented the entire kit of golf clubs before him and asked him to identify any two from them, he said.
Umesh Sharma’s testimony, which remained inconclusive during the last hearing on 14 September, was concluded on Tuesday. After Umesh Sharma’s testimony was over, the CBI presented their witness Laxman Singh who revealed that the driver handed over two sticks to the investigating officer before him.
After the testimony and the cross-examination of the two witnesses, Special Judge S Lal adjourned the hearing till 21 September. Aarushi’s mother Nupur Talwar and her father are accused in the murder of their daughter and destroying evidence. Nupur Talwar was arrested on 30 April. She challenged in the apex court the 31 May rejection of her bail plea by the Allahabad High Court. She is lodged in Dasna jail in Ghaziabad. Her husband is out on bail. Aarushi, 14, was found murdered at her parents’ Noida residence on 16 May 2008. The body of her domestic help Hemraj was found the next day on the terrace of the house.
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