Aarushi murder: Court can reject CBI closure

The CBI’s closure report in the Aarushi case is not the end. The trial court can reject it or can order a re-investigation.

A day after the CBI filed a closure report in the Aarushi double murder case, the parents of the teenager on Wednesday said they would seek an appointment with the probe agency’s new director KP Singh as they had not expected such a step.

“We will request him (CBI director) for an appointment. I hope he will meet us,” Nupur Talwar, mother of Aarushi, whose murder had shaken the country over two years back, told reporters in New Delhi.

Aarushi’s father Rajesh Talwar said he did “not expect the premiere agency to close the case in this manner.... We have faith in the CBI”.

Nupur blamed the Noida police for botching up the investigation.

The couple said they would meet their lawyer and then decide on the future course of action on the closure report.

The CBI, they said, must complete its investigation. The CBI had filed the closure report on the grounds there was no available evidence at the crime scene to pursue the probe after meeting a dead-end in the case.

“Let there be no hue and cry over the closure report. It is not the last thing. If the trial court feels that investigation was not done properly, it can use the power under section 190 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) to ask the investigating agency to investigate the matter all over again,” noted criminal lawyer KTS Tulsi told DNA.

This provision empowers a magistrate to take cognizance of an offence on receiving a complaint of facts regarding the crime. A decision can be taken on receiving the final report or the closure report.