Aarushi murder case: Final arguments begin in CBI court

GHAZIABAD: Final arguments in the murders of teenage girl Aarushi and domestic aide Hemraj started at a CBI court here today almost five years after they were slayed at a posh Noida apartment, with the probe agency claiming that the murders could have been done using two weapons.

On the first day, CBI lawyers started arguments with the post mortem examination reports of Aarushi and Hemraj, saying that injury marks on the girl's forehead and the aide's head were inflicted by a golf club by Rajesh Talwar, after he found them in a "compromising position".

The agency said that injury marks were clearly visible in photographs taken soon after the murders.

CBI probe officer AGL Kaul in his statement had also told the court that the V or U shaped injury on Aarushi's forehead could have been caused by the use of gold stick head, they said.

During the arguments, CBI lawyer RK Saini claimed for the first time that "there are two possible weapons - scalpel or knife - with which Aarushi and Hemraj's throats were slit".

CBI also stood by its theory that on the intervening night of May 15 and 16, 2008, no outsider barged into Talwars's house.

"As per Talwars' driver Umesh's statement, the day before the teenage was found dead, he saw Rajesh, Nupur, Aarushi and Hemraj at home for the last time that night.

"Umesh's statement indicated that there were only four persons at home on that fateful night, and no outsider entered Talwars' house," Saini said

The CBI lawyer also referred to the statements of some prosecution witnesses, like former Noida City Magistrate Sanjay Chauhan, maid Bharti Mandal, saying that Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were looking nervous in the morning.