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Second policeman transferred after Noida murders
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- IANS
- Published: 00:16 May 19, 2008
Noida: A second police officer was on Sunday shifted in the wake of a gruesome double murder here, hours after he had said a sharp-edged surgical instrument was used to slit the throats of teenager Aarushi Talwar and her servant Hemraj and that both were killed at around the same time.
Superintendent of Police (City) Mahesh Mishra was shifted out yesterday afternoon but his new posting was not immediately announced. Earlier in the day, citing the autopsy report, Mishra had pointed to the murder weapon, even as he said there was no alcohol found in Hemraj.
Bloodstains
Meanwhile, the station officer of Sector-20 police station of Noida has been shifted to the police lines. This follows the embarrassment the police faced after the servant's body was found on the terrace of the Talwar home on Saturday, a day after Aarushi's body was discovered.
Hemraj was earlier suspected to be the killer and police teams had fanned out to search for him.
Hemraj's body was discovered by retired police officer K.K. Gautam when he asked the police to break the lock of the terrace door after noticing bloodstains on the stairs. The body was found in a partially decomposed state.
The Assistant Director General of Uttar Pradesh Police Brij Lal has announced that the state's Special Task Force would probe the double murder.
Aarushi, 15, a Class 9 student of Delhi Public School, Noida, was found murdered in her bedroom at her L-32 Jal Vayu Vihar home in Sector-25 here on Friday. The teenager, the only daughter of a dentist couple, had eaten dinner with her family on Thursday night and then retired to her room in the three-bedroom apartment.
At 6am on Friday, her father Rajesh Talwar woke up to open the door to a part-time domestic help and peeped into Aarushi's room. To his horror, he found his daughter lying dead in a pool of blood.
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