CBSE 2008 results

The CBSE 2008 class Xth results create a lot of tension, mess and in the end it is just one screen with blue stripes that says it all. 12 months of hardwork, pressure and loads of inspirational remarks by teachers, parents and relatives. A class Xth student has to bare all this torture all for 5 marks, which will be asked again and again in the future. Some might need it for a minimum qualifying criteria and some might need it as an address proof… Read the complete article

Nitish Katara murder – The complete story

Nitish Katara was a year old business executive in Delhi who was murdered in the early hours of February , , apparently by the son of an influential Indian politician. The son of an IAS officer in the Ministry of Shipping, Nitish had recently graduated from the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad. There, he had fallen in love with his classmate, Bharti Yadav, who comes from a criminal-politician family. It is widely believed that he was murdered by Bharti’s brother Vikas Yadav, because the family did not approve their relationship.

Bharti Yadav is the daughter of D. P. Yadav, “unrivalled don of western Uttar Pradesh”. Before entering politics, D. P. Yadav had racked up nine murder charges, and was behind a spurious liquor sale which killed people in the early s. Since , he has served several terms as minister in the state government with Mulayam Singh Yadav. In , he became a member of the Indian Parliament under the Bharatiya Janata Party but such was the ensuiing scandal that the party threw him out within days. Most recently, he narrowly won the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, from Sahaswan (margin of in , votes cast). Bharti’s mother, Umlesh Yadav, is also a state legislator, representing neighbouring Bisauli.

Katara Murder case : Vikas yadav and his cousin found guilty

A court here on Wednesday held Vikas Yadav, son of the Uttar Pradesh politician D.P. Yadav, and his cousin Vishal Yadav guilty of kidnap, killing and destruction of evidence in the six-year-old, high profile Nitish Katara murder case.

Following the verdict, Vishal, who was out on bail, was taken into custody and the two accused were whisked out of the packed Patiala House courtroom by the police. The sentences will be pronounced on Friday.

Additional sessions judge Ravinder Kaur pronounced the verdict after counsel informed the court that there was no stay by the Delhi High Court.

According to the prosecution, Nitish was kidnapped on the night of February 16-17, 2002 by Vikas, Vishal and Sukhdev Pehalwan, who is facing trial separately. The prime accused Vikas got rid of Nitish as he was opposed to his proximity to his sister Bharti Yadav.

Earlier, even as the trial court fixed Wednesday for pronouncing the verdict, defence moved a plea in the High Court on Tuesday seeking to restrain it from doing so. The High Court also listed the matter for Wednesday.

Around 10.15 a.m. on Wednesday, when the accused were summoned to the dock, defence counsel told judge Ravinder Kaur that the plea of the accused was scheduled to come up in the High Court shortly. However, when the court learnt that the High Court had not granted any stay, it went ahead with the verdict. The High Court later dismissed the plea, saying it had become infructuous.

Arushi Talwar murder #5

Aarushi Talwar’S father Rajesh Talwar was on Tuesday remanded in three days’ police custody by the Noida Chief Judicial Magistrate’s (CJM) court.

Lawyers of the Gautam Budha Nagar Bar Association, who were on strike in support of the Gujjar agitation, did not allow Talwar’s advocates to argue the case. Talwar himself pleaded his case.

Around 12.08 pm, four vehicles carrying prisoners from the Dasna jail, including Talwar, reached the Noida Phase II court. The drivers of the vehicles said they had started at 9.40 a.m. from the jail but due to traffic jams on the national highway near Lal Kuan, they were delayed by an hour.

Before Talwar was taken to the CJM’s court, the Noida Police led by SP (city) AK Tripathi asked the media to move out of the court complex. He said only advocates of Talwar’s family could enter.

When proceedings started, bar association members manhandled Talwar’s relatives and his advocate Mahinder Pratap Singh.

After the melee, CJM AK Singh heard the prosecution officer and Talwar and sent him on police remand for three days. A lawyer will be there with Talwar during the interrogation period.

Senior prosecution officer PC Srivastava said, “It was argued that Rajesh Talwar had lodged an FIR against Hemraj that he had murdered his daughter Arushi and after committing the crime ran away. After one day, the body of Hemraj was found lying on the terrace, which was locked. When police went to the spot, they recovered the dead body of Hemraj in the absence of the Talwars.”

“Rajesh and his wife had gone to Haridwar to immerse her ashes in the Ganga,” said Srivastava.

Srivastava said when they came back, the police interrogated Rajesh Talwar, who confessed that he had killed his daughter and Hemraj. “He also confessed that he had illicit relations with Dr Anita Durrani. He said Aarushi was threatening to expose the relation before her grandparents,” he said.

Earlier, Talwar moved an adjournment application, seeking another date for hearing his plea because of the lawyers’ strike. He said he was innocent and had not confessed anything.

Talwar’s advocate Mahinder Pratap Singh said, “I had requested the bar association to allow me to appear for Talwar but they rejected my request. It was then decided that the adjournment application would be moved by Rajesh Talwar himself.”

Arushi Talwar murder #4

What happened

Noida twin murders – Timeline

The course of investigation took several turns in the gruesome murder of teenaged Aarushi Talwar – a class IX student of Delhi Public School, Noida. The suspense continued until the arrest of her doctor parents Friday along with another doctor friend. Here is a chronology of the incident and the case investigation —

May 16:

* Fourteen-year-old Delhi Public School student Aarushi Talwar found dead.
* Missing domestic help Hemraj declared main suspect.
* Senior SP A Satish Ganesh stated that the servant must have murdered in an inebriated state and fled.
* SP (City) Mahesh Mishra declared that the case will be solved within 24 hours.

May 17:

* Hemraj, the main suspect, was accused as the culprit in the FIR lodged by father Rajesh Talwar.
* The help was later found dead on the house’s terrace after police broke open the locked door.
* Special task force (STF) joins the probe.
* SP (City) Mishra made statement that surgical equipment was used in the murders and the killer knew the house well.
* Police seek call details of the mobile phones of Aarushi and Hemraj.

May 19:

* SP (City) Mishra was transferred along with the SHO of Sector-20 police station Dataram Nauneria.
* SSP Ganesh said that it was clear that the murderer had access to all parts of the house.

May 20:

* Former family help Vishnu Thapa was suspected in the case, as reported from the office of state’s Additional Director General of Police Brij Lal.
* SSP Ganesh said that Vishnu’s whereabouts were not known.
* Aarushi’s parents were questioned for several hours.
* Later in the day, SSP Ganesh claimed the case will be cracked within 24 hours.

May 21:

* Citing the post-mortem examination report, ADGP Lal ruled out rape of the girl.
* Driver Umesh Sharma told police that he had seen Aarushi with her parents just before dinner on the night of incident (Thursday).
* Ashok Tripathi took over as the new SP (City), conducting raids and sealed Talwars’ garage.
* Sector-39 SHO Anil Samania was made the new investigating officer of the case.
* Delhi police team visits to assist the UP police in probe.

May 22:

* Claiming that the police had almost cracked the case, SSP Ganesh said that the twin murders were possibly “honour killing”.
* Aarushi’s friend Anmol, whom she had talked to before being killed, was questioned by the police for hours.

May 23:

* Parents questioned for five hours.
* Talwars arrested along with another doctor Anita Durrani; their houses raided.

Arushi Talwar murder #3

May 21, 2008

Police clueless

With the Noida double murder case proving to be a tough nut to crack, five days after the sensational killing of the teenaged school girl Aarushi Talwar and the family’s domestic help Hemraj, the police have now pinned their hopes on call details of the missing mobile phones of the deceased for reaching any conclusion.

Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order and Special Task Force) Brij Lal said here on Tuesday that the phone call details were being examined by the Noida police and the Special Task Force but nothing definite had emerged so far. The mobile phones remain untraced, he added.

Mr. Lal said the case had not been worked out so far and no arrests had been made though over a dozen persons, including Aarushi’s parents and close relatives, had been interrogated by the police. He ruled out the possibility of pressure being applied on the investigating teams in a bid to hush up the case considering that it involved a family belonging to the affluent upper middle class section of society.

Arushi Talwar murder #2

The Autopsy

A sharp-edged surgical instrument was used to slit the throats of Noida girl Aarushi Talwar and her servant Hemraj and both were killed at around the same time, a police official said on Sunday citing the autopsy report.

Giving details of the report, Superintendent of Police Mahesh Mishra said there was no alcohol found in Hemraj.

Meanwhile, the station officer of Sector-20 police station of Noida has been shifted to the police lines. This follows the embarrassment the police faced after the servant’s body was found on the terrace of the Talwar home on Saturday, a day after Aarushi’s body was discovered. Hemraj was suspected to be the teenager’s killer earlier and police teams had fanned out to search for him.

Arushi Talwar murder #1

May 18, 2008

In a bizarre twist to the murder of young Arushi, who was found stabbed to death at her Sector 25 house here on Friday, the body of the suspect Hemraj was found with his throat slit on the terrace of the same house on Saturday.

The 14-year-old daughter of a dentist couple was found lying in a pool of blood in her bedroom with deep stab injuries on her face and head. Her body was found by her father Rajesh Talwar when he went to her room to wake her up in the morning.

The police had suspected the involvement of domestic help Hemraj in the crime as they found him “missing”. A reward of Rs.20,000 had also been announced for providing any information leading to him.

However, the case turned on its head on Saturday when retired senior police officer K.K. Gautam staying in the neighbourhood of the family discovered the brutally stabbed body of Hemraj on the terrace of the same building on Saturday afternoon. The officer had gone to the house of the Talwars to convey his condolences to the bereaved family and apparently his cop instincts took him towards the terrace.

“I had gone to the Talwars to express my condolences and went to the room of Arushi and the domestic help to have a look at the crime scene. I found several clues there and decided to reconstruct the sequence. Following the leads, I reached the terrace of the house and found the door locked. When the lock was broken, I was flabbergasted to find a body lying in a pool of blood. The deceased was later identified as Hemraj,” said Mr. Gautam.

In the wake of the dramatic discovery of the body from the terrace of the same house, the police said the involvement of a third person cannot be ruled out.

“The discovery of the body has completely changed the line of investigation. We are now investigating the possible involvement of a third person. There are three or four possibilities but it would not be right to discuss those at this point in time. The post-mortem report is expected to throw more light,” said SHO (Sector-20) Datta Ram Nauneria, who is investigating the case.

Based on his inspection of the crime scene, Mr. Gautam said that more than one person could be behind the murder.

“The body of Hemraj has been dragged several metres in an attempt to hide it. It cannot be the handiwork of a single man. There must be more than one person involved in the murder. Since there are no blood stains on the staircase, Hemraj must have been murdered on the terrace. The blood stains on the terrace door can help the police reach the assailants. I think the assailants could have also hid the weapon of offence somewhere on the terrace itself,” added Mr. Gautam.