The counsel for Rajkumar, an accused in the Arushi-Hemraj double murder, has approached the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), saying the domestic help was "tortured" by CBI officers during the investigation.
In his complaint filed on Thursday before the NHRC, Rajkumar's lawyer Naresh Yadav alleged that the CBI "tortured" the three domestic helps — Rajkumar, Krishna and Vijay Mandal — while conducting narco-analysis tests on them in 2008 to get confessions. According to Yadav's complaint (Newsline has a copy), the three were "falsely implicated" in the case.
Yadav has given the complaint to NHRC on behalf of Rajkumar and Vijay Mandal.
He also submitted video recordings of tests conducted on the trio. "The videos show CBI officers were putting words in their mouth and torturing them to confess to the murders," Yadav told Newsline. He said the NHRC received his complaint, and he hoped for a "fair inquiry by the Commission".
Yadav has alleged in his complaint that besides torturing them, the investigating agency also kept the trio in custody illegally.
Yadav also demanded compensation for Rajkumar and Mandal for the mental and physical torture they underwent. Yadav said he filed the complaint against CBI after a TV channel recently aired footage of the narco tests of Rajkumar, Krishna and Mandal, conducted in June and July 2008.
Krishna worked as compounder with Arushi's dentist parents Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, Rajkumar worked as household help with Talwars' family friends Durranis, and Mandal was a household help in Talwars' neighbourhood.
The CBI had claimed on the basis of their narco tests that the three were involved in the murders. But all three got bail in September 2008 after the investigators failed to get any evidence against them.
While the agency had said no pressure was applied on the trio during their interrogation and tests, Rajkumar had alleged after he got bail in September 2008 that he was "physically assaulted by CBI officers and forced to confess".
Arushi Talwar was found murdered in the family's flat in Jalvayu Vihar, Sector-25 Noida, on May 16, 2008. The family's household help Hemraj's body was found on the terrace the following day.
The CBI had last month conducted narco, lie-detection, brain mapping tests on the Talwar couple at the forensic lab in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
A new CBI team is probing the case at present but there has been no headway yet. An investigating officer from the agency today refused to comment on the issue.
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