Aarushi-Hemraj Murder : Shoddy Investigation

The infamous double murder that shook entire nation of India is yet again a prime example of incompetence and social projection. Investigators have been dillying and dallying from day one which has finally culminated in a scenario where the parents of the 13 year old victim, Aarushi Talwar, have been convicted of the crime way before the court has pronounced verdict.

Tehelka has put out a poignant piece on the progress of this sensational murder case. Most important section of that article is the following paragraph:

The aides, on the other hand, particularly Krishna and Rajkumar, showed deception in their lie detector tests. Even more crucially, their narco tests pointed to their involvement in the crime. They admitted to their presence in the house that night, described the sequence of the crime, the murder weapon, and how Aarushi and Hemraj’s phones were disposed of. Arun Kumar, the head of the CBI team investigating the murder, held a press conference on 11 July 2008, sharing cautious details of these tests with the media.

These 'aides' refer to friends of Hemraj, the second victim, and domestic help to the Talwars, whose dead body was found lying on the terrace. These aides were domestic help to a neighbour and another was employed by a friend of the Talwars. They were familiar with murder scene environment.

As the second CBI team took over, they let their incompetence shine forth by letting the leads of this investigation implicating these aides to go cold. Instead they resorted to convenient conjecture implicating the parents. This is the part where social projection comes into the picture. These investigating inspectors and judges presiding over this case begin to project certain evil characteristcs upon the parents. This happens because the suspects and the invigilators belong to different sections of the society in most cases, as elsewhere in India. They begin to imagine the suspects to be of heinous capability, while downplaying incompetence on their own part.

Murder....Death....Kill

After days & months of bad case of Writers Bloc heres the latest post....reason for this revived interest in blogging is partly due to the fact that a druggie-philosopher uses the link to this blog as his nick in googletalk...Ok, thats enough of introductions...You know, i was going through the earlier posts with the Bihari being dragged behind by the police on a motorbike and thinking to self that those were the good 'ol days when everything was so simple.
Seriously what the hell is going on nowadays, case and point#1:A love-triangle in Mumbai resulting in the murder and then cutting up his body into 300 odd pieces, filling it into two gunny bags and then setting it on fire...case and point#2:A 14 yr old schoolgirl murdered by her own father because he found her inside her room with the servant-man in objectionable positions, the father himself had an existing affair and the daughter&servant had gotten close because they knew about it n' used to talk about it(this is the motive for the murder as of the time this post is being published). This is like as screwed-up & convoluted as it can get.I guess we're headfirst into Urban Chaos.
As soon as you turn on the tv, you're hit with fancy graphics and whatnots and the never-ending speculations on both the murders by the frenzied news organizations. From morning till night its murder.....death....kill...Who killed Aarushi?...Gruesome Neeraj murder...Aarushi!!....Neeraj!!....Mariya!!...Lt.Jerome!!...The Talwars!! (Now thats bound to bring some webtraffic this way)

Here on the right is an example of the graphics employed to drive the point home, now isnt this some sort of a crime in itself, to start pointing fingers way before the trial is set to begin. The cops who investigated the murder first claimed that the servant, Hemraj was the prime-suspect but they had to eat their words when hours later his dead-body was found on the terrace.

The Neeraj Grover murder suspects have been lucky thus far, they've had everything from scarves to bedsheets to cover their faces in front of the cameras.

Both of these have been mighty bloody affairs involving stabs, slitting of throat, banging head on wall( :shudder: )

Oh and the Orkut angle??......tons of people srapping their hearts out on the dead profile pages: Neeraj ||| Aarushi

And then theres the public opinion...i landed on some blogspot(don've link) where the author encourages his readers to think up ways to punish the murderers. I say lets bundle up the Mariyas and Jeromes and Talwars and take them to The Rider!.....yes thats right, the Bihari cop on the bike, i promise you he'll think of more ways to punish all the guilty in this world and you can have more blood & gore & death as much as you like and if you're very lucky, you'll get to ride pillion with him...........
.............right into the sunset............ride away........
.............away from all the sinners of the world............
unless of course he decides to drag the 'sinners' behind the bike again.

Peace be to the Dead and the Alive.