New Delhi, September 09: After failing to make any breakthrough in the sensational Aarushi-Hemraj murder case, the CBI has reconstituted its team of officials to go into the double murder.
The new team will be headed by SP, CBI Neelabh Krishna while joint director Lucknow Javed Ahmed and special director S C Sinha have been given supervisory roles. Other members of the team will be chosen on the recommendation of Ahmed and Sinha, CBI spokesperson said here today.
“This was necessitated as SP incharge Vijay Kumar was transferred and Arun Kumar joint director is going back to his cadre. joint director Lucknow Javed Ahmed and special director S C Sinha will be at the Supervisory level. The other members of team will be posted as per recommendations of the supervisory officers,” he said.
Kumar, a 1985-batch IPS officer, will be joining his parent cadre Uttar Pradesh in November this year.
CBI officials maintain that the decision was taken because the present director believed that there should be complete decentralisation of the cases and this case should be investigated by CBI sleuths in Lucknow.
The new team was likely to start investigation right from scratch as now even the vaginal swab of 14-year-old Aarushi seems to have been misplaced or not taken at all.
They said there was no semen, as alleged initially, in the slides sent to the centre and corroborative testing revealed that the material was not drawn from Aarushi.
Sunil Dohere, a doctor, had taken vaginal swabs following Aarushi’s murder on May 15, 2008. The doctor reported that the swabs contained a white discharge, suggestive of seminal fluid.
But, Dohere’s senior, S C Singhal, later said the slides prepared from the swabs had tested negative for semen.
Aarushi was found murdered in her Noida home on May 15, 2008. Their domestic help Hemraj, initially suspected of the crime, was later found dead on the roof-top.
—Agencies