Arushi case: Rajesh Talwar sent to judicial custody

New Delhi: Rajesh Talwar, an accused in the Noida twin murder case, was on Friday sent to judicial custody till June 2 by a court in Noida after expiry of his three-day police remand.

Investigators did not seek further extension of his custody and told Chief Judicial Magistrate A K Singh that Talwar was not cooperating with police following which he was remanded in judicial custody till Monday.

Police submitted before the court that they wanted to conduct narco-analysis and brain mapping tests on him to ‘unravel’ the sensational killings.

Talwar, who is accused of killing daughter Arushi and servant Hemraj, was produced before the court on Friday afternoon.

Police told the court that Talwar was ‘just killing their time’ by not cooperating.

The investigators said he was ‘not coming out’ with any substantial disclosure and scientific testing like brain mapping and narco-analysis needed to be conducted on him.

The court fixed June 2 for hearing the police application for the brain mapping and narco-analysis tests.

Police also told the court that the murder weapon had not been recovered.

Earlier on Friday, he was taken to Haridwar where police questioned the priest who had conducted Arushi's last rites.

The priest, Upendra Pancholi said, "The police came and questioned me. I was asked when the Talwars had come and what I noted in the records. I told them that five people including Rajesh Talwar, Nupur and Rajesh's brother Dinesh Talwar had come then. Today Dr Rajesh Talwar was brought by the police."

Sources have told CNN-IBN that the Noida Police have got only circumstantial evidence to nail him in the case. Neither the murder weapon nor the mobile phones of the victims have been recovered.

The police have been on the backfoot ever since the first day, when investigations into this case started. On the first day, they failed to notice that the Talwars' manservant, Hemraj — whom they had declared as the prime suspect after finding Arushi's dead body — too had been killed and that his body was lying on the terrace of the very same house.