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At first police blamed the servant for murdering Aarushi Talwar,13, but now her parents are accused of stabbing them both to deathin a case awash with sexual rumour, as well as charges of policeincompetence and a media witchhunt. Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, who are successful dentists, have alwaysdenied killing their daughter and Nepalese employee Hemraj Banjadein the capital's suburb of Noida in May 2008. The murders have raised awkward questions about the relationshipbetween newly-wealthy Indian families and the poor, often-migrantservants who cook, clean and look after their every need at home. When Aarushi was found with her throat slit, police immediatelysaid Hemraj had murdered her -- triggering a media firestorm thattapped into fears within many Indian households about untrustworthydomestic staff. But almost two days after Aarushi was killed, officers foundHemraj's body lying in the hot sun on the roof terrace of the houseafter he was apparently murdered at the same time as Aarushi. The discovery kicked off fevered speculation about whether herparents had killed the two after discovering their daughter was ina relationship with the servant, or that they were killed to hidethe parents' alleged affairs. "Our stand was that the probe of the investigating officer provesthat no outsider was involved in this," Central Bureau ofInvestigation (CBI) counsel R.K. Saini told reporters after thedecision to prosecute for murder. "Circumstantial evidence is pointing out that whatever has beendone, the parents only have done it," he said. But major doubts have arisen over the case -- not least how thepolice failed to gather forensic evidence properly from the sceneand the way that they reversed their stance to say that they hadproof of the parents' guilt. The CBI even closed the case last year declaring it unsolved,before a sudden U-turn in favour of a prosecution. The investigative magazine Tehelka has been especially critical ofthe police work and condemned what it called the "conspiratorialhysteria" fuelled by media coverage of the case. "The Talwars have been pulled through some of our society's darkestanxieties," the magazine said. "Dante's hell is alive in Delhi andthe Talwars seem to have no way out of it." In a television interview last year, Nupur Talwar said she and herhusband had been the victims of unsubstantiated gossip, innuendoand police scapegoating. "I have almost lost faith in humanity," Talwar said. "I was abeliever in truth and justice... I always thought truth wouldprevail in the end, but I'm not so sure about that now." One of the Talwars' supporters has been Patrick French, a Britishauthor who undertook his own study of the murder for his 2011 bookon contemporary Indian issues. "It makes no sense to say that they did or would have killed theirdaughter," he told AFP, adding he was "100 percent convinced" oftheir innocence. "If you are looking for a motive you are left with these bizarretheories that the police have come up with suggesting arelationship between Aarushi and Hemraj for which there is not ajot of evidence," he said. India's newspapers often recount grisly murders but the Aarushicase has generated unprecedented interest. "It sheds a light on police inefficiency and corruption, themiddle-class fear of servants, and every parent's terror of theirchild being killed," said French. The trial, which will be held without a jury as in all Indiancourts, is due to open on Friday morning with Rajesh and NupurTalwar both present in the dock. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as Hardfacing Machine , China Welding Manipulator for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Welding Positioner.
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