NEW DELHI: The much-debated golf club theory introduced by the CBI a year after the murder was upheld by special CBI judge Shyam Lal. Moreover, Dr Rajesh
Talwar's ill-fated attempt to hide one of the golf clubs used in the
murder irrevocably linked him to the crime and also resulted in him
earning additional punishment for destruction of evidence.
Once the probe came to CBI, it was AGL Kaul who started giving attention to the possibility of a golf stick being used as a weapon. The fact that Rajesh Talwar was a member of the Noida golf club made the CBI curious.
In order to prove its theory, the agency approached Dr Mohinder Singh Dahiya, director of Gujarat Forensic Science University, to prepare a report on crime scene analysis. Dahiya inspected the house and samples provided by the CBI to conclude that the V-shaped injury on Aarushi's forehead could have been inflicted only with a golf club, as this injury matched with the striking surface of one. Two other experts, Dr Sunil Dohre and Dr Naresh Raj, who conducted postmortem examination on Aarushi and Hemraj earlier, agreed with this conclusion, saying that the injuries seen on the deceased were possibly inflicted with a golf club. This is what led the CBI to demand that Talwar surrender all his golf clubs for minute forensic examination.
The judge accepted the medical opinion on the basis of which the CBI came to this conclusion. It also found that on examination of the golf sticks, it was discovered that two golf sticks were cleaner than the others. The court also held Talwar guilty of throwing one of the golf clubs in the loft after commission of the crime. It was later produced when the CBI began insisting, in line with its theory.
The court dismissed the Talwars' argument that this evidence is a fabricated one since the golf clubs went through a series of tests and passed through several unaccounted hands. Defence lawyers have maintained that the CBI's theory is wrong; arguing that even in the forensic test of the golf clubs there was no biological fluid, no DNA and no blood. They have also argued that postmortem reports of Aarushi and Hemraj too never suggested that the victims were attacked with a golf club. shailendra kumar pgdm 1st year 2013-15
Once the probe came to CBI, it was AGL Kaul who started giving attention to the possibility of a golf stick being used as a weapon. The fact that Rajesh Talwar was a member of the Noida golf club made the CBI curious.
In order to prove its theory, the agency approached Dr Mohinder Singh Dahiya, director of Gujarat Forensic Science University, to prepare a report on crime scene analysis. Dahiya inspected the house and samples provided by the CBI to conclude that the V-shaped injury on Aarushi's forehead could have been inflicted only with a golf club, as this injury matched with the striking surface of one. Two other experts, Dr Sunil Dohre and Dr Naresh Raj, who conducted postmortem examination on Aarushi and Hemraj earlier, agreed with this conclusion, saying that the injuries seen on the deceased were possibly inflicted with a golf club. This is what led the CBI to demand that Talwar surrender all his golf clubs for minute forensic examination.
The judge accepted the medical opinion on the basis of which the CBI came to this conclusion. It also found that on examination of the golf sticks, it was discovered that two golf sticks were cleaner than the others. The court also held Talwar guilty of throwing one of the golf clubs in the loft after commission of the crime. It was later produced when the CBI began insisting, in line with its theory.
The court dismissed the Talwars' argument that this evidence is a fabricated one since the golf clubs went through a series of tests and passed through several unaccounted hands. Defence lawyers have maintained that the CBI's theory is wrong; arguing that even in the forensic test of the golf clubs there was no biological fluid, no DNA and no blood. They have also argued that postmortem reports of Aarushi and Hemraj too never suggested that the victims were attacked with a golf club. shailendra kumar pgdm 1st year 2013-15
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