Union Law minister Veerappa Moily on Friday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to carry on its probe into the Aarushi Talwar murder case ?seriously?.
The CBI?s submission on Wednesday that it was closing the case with no tangible leads had led to a public outrage, forcing Moily to intervene.
He summoned CBI director Amar Pratap Singh and had a closed door meeting.
?It is very clear that someone has killed Aarushi in a brutal way, dastardly way, I have told the CBI director to take the matter seriously… CBI always does a perfect job. There is no question whether they did the job or not, that is not a matter of debate … I want the CBI to investigate,? Moily said, after the meeting.
Earlier on Thursday, the CBI put the blame on Noida Police for closing Aarushi Talwar murder case.
According to reports, the CBI said the case was ?forced? to be closed due to ?inability? of ?first responders? (ie, Noida Police) to collect vital forensics and evidences.
Meanwhile, with the CBI closure of the case evoking anger of the victim’s family and friends, the teenager’s parents have decided to appeal against the case closure report.
?This is not the last and final, as far as we are concerned. We are the complainants in the case. They (parents) are being left in no position to even ask for the actual killer of their dead daughter being brought to book because of the manner in which their rights were compromised,? media reports on Thursday quoted the Talwars? lawyer Rebbecca John as stating.
Aarushi?s parents have supported ‘Touch DNA’ testing, stating that they feel it could have solved the mystery.
The CBI has said in a Ghaziabad court on Wednesday that despite two years of investigation, it cannot solve the murder of 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar, and her family’s domestic help, Hemraj.
“I had researched a lot about this test – Touch DNA -and asked CBI more than a-year-and-a-half ago to get it done.
“But they did not. The test could have revealed who was there in the room that night [of Aarushi?s murder]. The test has helped solve a lot of cases,? Aarushi?s father Rajesh Talwar told reporters, outraged by the closure of the case on Thursday.
Nupur Talwar, Aarushi’s mother, said she is heart-broken by the closure.
“I am shocked. I had huge hopes pinned on the CBI…this is not something I can deal with or bear,” she said.
?I don?t know why CBI is behaving like this,? she said.
The CBI earlier suspected that Aarushi had been killed by three men: Krishna, who worked in Rajesh Talwar’s clinic; Rajkumar, who worked for the Duranis, close family friends of the Talwars; and Vijay Mandal, who worked for a family that lived in the same apartment block as the Talwars.
The three men were arrested and put through narco-analysis, but their tests did not lead the CBI to any breakthroughs.
They were eventually released after the CBI admitted that it had no evidence against them.