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As a
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court Wednesday ordered the trial
of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar for the 2008 murder of their
teenaged daughter Aarushi, the 33-month-old case evoked memories of
crimes where parents have faced allegations of harming their children.
'Similarities can be drawn between Aarushi muder case and the JonBenet
Ramsey murder case of 1996 in the US. It were the parents who were
accused for their daughter's murder and not a single evidence could back
the investigative agency's charges, leaving the case unsolved,' a senior
professor of the National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Sciences
here told IANS.
The murder of the six-year-old girl, initially suspected to be a case of
kidnapping, was unsolved as her body was found in her parents' home.
'In such cases the investigative agency cannot be completely blamed for
shoddy investigation. There are various bodies involved at different
levels - police, forensic laboratory, and even the agencies who join
investigation at the later stages of investigation (like CBI),' added
the senior professor.
Experts, however, believe that had the investigating agency retrieved
the much-needed source of evidence - DNA - the case could have been
solved.
'We boil down to the same point of 'destroying evidence' when we talk
about DNA samples collected from the site. Yes, the samples could have
led us to the culprits, but only if they were not tampered with,' a
senior professor of the department of laboratory medicine at the All
India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), told IANS.
Touch-DNA technique is a situational yet reliable option, believe
experts.
'We recover the tissues from the DNA sample collected from the crime
scene, and thereby make a slide to profile the prints received,' added
the professor of microbiology.
Apart from the JonBenet Ramsey
case, three-year-old
Madeleine McCann's disappearance in May
2007 in Portugal is also another case where the girl's parents were
accused in the killing but could not be held guilty by the investigators
due to lack of evidence and a motive.
Aarushi, a Class 9 student of Delhi Public School, Noida, was found
murdered under mysterious circumstances in her parents' Jalvayu Vihar
Apartment in Noida May 16, 2008.
Their domestic help Hemraj was initially suspected for the killing, but
his body was found on the flat's terrace a day later |
