Aarushi Talwar, Hemraj murder case: Lack of motive punctures 'outsider' theory

Aarushi Talwar, Hemraj double murder is no close to being solved. Rajesh Talwar and Nupur Talwar will walk out of Dasna jail today after they were acquitted by the Allahabad High Court. The biggest questions over what happened in the Jal Vayu vihar apartment remain unanswered. Conspiracy theories regarding a botched investigation and the murder being committed by 'outsiders' have resurfaced in social media debates. There is a huge problem with that theory though. Discounting everything that the high court termed dubious while acquitting the Talwars, we are left with nothing to hold these 'outsiders' guilty for the crime. The theory is largely based on a pillow case found in Krishna's room which had a drop of Hemraj's blood on it. The assumption that it was Krishna's pillow case leads one to another assumption that the blood drop is a result of a physical attack on Hemraj which resulted in his death. That's the third assumption.

Even if all these assumptions are true how does this connect Krishna to Aarushi's murder? That would be assumption four.

Also, if Hemraj was killed by Krishna why was no other incriminating evidence found from his room? How did he manage to spotlessly transfer Hemraj's body to the terrace of the Talwar apartment? And more importantly why was there no evidence found in Aarushi's room to prove Krishna was present there when the crime was committed?

The biggest element to solving a murder is to identify the motive. If it was indeed an outsider who killed Aarushi Talwar then what was the motive? Rape? Theft? Personal enmity of the Talwars? None of these have been proven in any of the investigations conducted by the Uttar Pradesh police or the Central Bureau of Investigation.

The three ‘outsiders’ didn’t display the usual characteristics of criminals either. They never tried to run or hide and maintained from the start that they were innocent. The narco tests too proved inconclusive.

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”

Is it impossible for a father to kill his daughter? Improbable yes. Terribly tragic, yes. But impossible? No. Is it however impossible for two adults to sleep through a violent, bloody, gruesome double murder involving their teenage daughter right next door and hear nothing?

There is another problem with the outsider theory. It runs on the premise that the police and the CBI for some strange reason wanted to 'frame' Rajesh and Nupur Talwar for Aarushi's murder. Why would they do that? Isn't it easier to simply put the blame on a bunch of domestic helps who lack the resources or the networking to put any pressure on the police? That's how the police are seen to operate otherwise- they save the influential and the rich while finding scapegoats. In the Aarushi case however this belief is turned on its head. I won't list all the evidence of the case, it has been done before two separate courts and both have come to the exact opposite verdict. In a case like this the investigation rests on circumstantial evidence. A murder committed behind closed doors is unlikely to have an eyewitness.