Aarushi's parents have decided to file an appeal against the CBI's closure report

'We won't give up'

Aarushi's parents have decided to file an appeal against the CBI's closure report

The agency's two-and-a-half years of investigation hadn't produced enough evidence. The CBI has sought the court's permission to shut down the probe.

"This is not done. We are shocked and shattered. We want justice for our child and we will not let it go so easily," said Rajesh Talwar, Aarushi's father.

The designated court will fix the date for taking cognizance of the closure report filed by the CBI. If accepted, the three suspects - Raj Kumar, Vijay Mandal and Krishna - will be set free. They are currently out on bail.
The Talwar family has decided to file an appeal against the closure report. The dentist family was keeping silent and had placed its trust on the investigation being carried out by the premier investigating agency. Wednesday came as a rude shock.

"We are completely shattered as we cooperated with the agency at every step. All this was done to get justice for our child, not to see the case come to a dead end. We tried everything and underwent narco test. Despite this, filing of closure report by CBI is shocking. I haven't yet discussed the matter with legal experts but we won't let the case die and will fight till the last breath for justice," said Rajesh Talwar.

Aarushi, the daughter of dentist parents Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, was found murdered under mysterious circumstances in their Jalvayu Vihar apartment in Noida May 16, 2008. The family's domestic help, Hemraj, whom Noida police initially suspected for the murder, was also found killed on the flat's terrace a day later.
Rajesh Talwar was arrested and kept behind bars for 50 days in connection with the killings, but was later let off because of lack of evidence against him.

The Central Bureau of Investigation took over the investigation into the murders of Aarushi and Hemraj on June 1, 2008, forming a 25-member team in a resolute attempt to crack the case.

The investigating agency recovered Aarushi's phone Nokia N-72 by tracking the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number six months after the murder.

The CBI also questioned Aarushi's family with respect to the recovered phone. After Rajesh Talwar was let off, the CBI arrested his medical assistant Krishna and two other domestic helps in the neighbourhood, Raj Kumar and Vijay Mandal.

All of them were freed after a period of detention while the CBI continued to hunt for material evidence in the sensational case.

The CBI had last September reconstituted its Special Investigation Team (SIT) following reports that the vaginal swabs of the teenaged victim may have been substituted.

The investigating agency in January this year sought permission of a Ghaziabad court to conduct
narco-analysis tests on Aarushi's parents. They underwent the tests in an Ahmedabad forensic laboratory in February.

CBI's 'clean chit' record

November 2010: CBI files closure report after finding no evidence against former Haryana police chief SPS Rathore in the Ruchika Girhotra case
October 2010: Investigating agency files application before chief metropolitan court in Delhi seeking closure of the Bofors pay off case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi
August 2010: CBI gives clean chit to Moninder Singh Pandher in Nithari killings. Files closure report in three of the 19 cases lodged in 2006
April 2010: Court lets off senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler after accepting CBI's closure report giving clean chit to him in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case

Timeline

Following is the chronology of the Aarushi murder case in which CBI filed a closure report on Wednesday:
May 16, 2008: Aarushi Talwar - daughter of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur - found dead with her throat slit in the bedroom of her flat in Noida. Domestic help Hemraj (Nepalese national) suspected of murder
May 17: Hemraj's body found on the terrace of Talwar's house
May 18: Police say murders done with surgical precision, insider job suspected
May 19: Talwar's former Nepalese domestic help Vishnu Sharma named suspect
May 21: Delhi police joins murder probe
May 22: Family under suspicion, honour killing angle probed, the police quiz Aarushi's close friend whom she spoke to 688 times in the 45 days preceding her murder
May 23: Aarushi's father Rajesh Talwar arrested for the two murders
June 1: CBI takes over the probe in the case
June 13: Domestic help of Rajesh Talwar, Krishna, arrested by CBI
June 20: Lie detection test of Rajesh Talwar conducted at CFSL, Delhi
June 25: Second lie detection test conducted on Nupur Talwar. Her first lie detection test was found inconclusive
June 26: CBI declares the case to be a "blind case". Rajesh Talwar refused bail by the special magistrate in Ghaziabad
July 3: Supreme Court rejects a public interest litigation (PIL) case which challenged the administration of narco-analysis test on the accused in the case
July 12: Rajesh Talwar freed on bail from Dasna Jail in Ghaziabad
Jan 5, 2010: CBI moves court to conduct narco test on Talwar couple
Dec 29: CBI files closure report in Ghaziabad special court