Behind Closed Doors

"Thank you both for joining us."

"Nupur, you said yesterday"

"that you were devastated."

"A day later, is it sinking"

"in that you may never know"

"who actually killed Aarushi."

"Are you still devastated?"

"Yes, Vikram. Completely shattered."

"Completely broken. Very upset."

"I have no words to express"

"what I'm going through right now."

"Rajesh, would you like to add"

"something to that?"

"It's painful to the extent"

"of being absolutely unbearable."

"And you know we've done everything"

"possibly what we were asked to do"

"or we thought would help."

"And you know, I don't think"

"anybody can do more than this."

"Will we ever know the true case"

"that had the entire nation"

"sitting up demanding answers?"

"What is the most glaring question"

"at the heart of it all"

"that remains unanswered?"

"Well, we don't have a perpetrator."

"We have no idea"

"what actually happened"

"that evening."

"The entire nation"

"watching every twist and turn."

"Police officers faltered"

"apologized and then faltered again."

"The CBI"

"a premier investigating agency"

"taken over the investigation"

"almost 15 months back."

"More than two and a half years"

"after the investigation"

"into the murder"

"of thirteen year old Aarushi Talwar"

"there is no answer"

"to who killed her."

"There have been"

"thousands of theories"

"about the servants."

"How they might have killed Aarushi"

"and it has to do"

"with the class divide in our society."

"For Rajesh and Nupur"

"they want the killers to be found."

"We want justice!"

"We want justice!"

Aarushi was a really likeable girl.

She had a ton of friends.

She never really fought with anyone.

She was really shy.

I remember her laugh very vividly.

She had like a very kind of

silly dorkish laugh.

By around class 8, 9, she started

becoming like a young woman.

She started getting attention

from boys and started becoming

a little conscious about her looks.

But she was always really focused

on her academics

and she was just really calm

and cool in a sense.

At some point we started going

to same dance classes

which is how we started

spending a lot of time together

so we became very tight.

The family was extremely loving

and they really doted on her

like giving her gifts

and kind of giving her

whatever she wanted

but her also really respecting them

and doing what she was supposed to do

as a kid at that age.

The day before we were very excited

because Aarushi's birthday

was coming up and

we'd been planning a party for her

and my parents were going out of town

so I was also planning to stay

at her house that entire weekend.

And the last time I spoke to her

was actually the night before

and we had a brief conversation

and I was getting another call

so I said, "Okay, I'll call you back"

and I hung up

but then I didn't call her back.

Around 6.00 in the morning

I got a phone call

and that was Nupur

and she was shrieking.

My wife received a call

that something's happened

at Rajesh's place

so we drove down

and when we were approaching

we could see a lot of cops there.

Rajesh was banging his head

on the wall

Nupur was staring blankly.

I recall that morning

very distinctly.

I had a very important meeting

coming up, regarding

the Prime Minister's visit to Noida

for which I had to undertake a travel

from Delhi to Lucknow.

And I had to weigh the option

whether to visit the scene of crime

or straight away head to the airport.

So I decided to take a detour.

We went to Aarushi's room

and I didn't even look at her pulse

because there was nothing to do.

I tried to visit

every nook and corner of the house.

It was very difficult in a way

because there were so many guests.

I mean, maybe they were friends

maybe they're relatives

but yet we were trying to follow

a professional line.

When I interacted with Mr. Talwar

the first thing I remember

very distinctly

is that he actually posed

a kind of a challenge

to the local police saying that

"Okay, you guys are wasting time."

"The servant Hemraj"

"has already murdered my daughter."

"He has ran away."

"Rather than wasting time"

"and doing all this"

"why don't you deploy a team"

"to go and quickly arrest him?"

The incident occurred actually

the morning of the last day of school

because then we were going to break

for our summer break

and I was wondering

why she was running late

and she could have come through

the late comers gate

or something like that.

And then a lot of time past

and the news started trickling in.

At that time I was just saddened

that this child has gone

and to know

how much she would have suffered.

How much did she suffer

before she died?

So these were the things

which were playing on my mind.

My mom came to school to pick me up.

By the time she came to pick me up

everyone on my floor, all my peers

people who knew her, didn't know her

were just hysterical, crying.

And I was in a state of disbelief.

I went with Aarushi

to the post-mortem house

and that post-mortem house

was completely filthy

not taken care of.

I mean, I was shocked to know

they did not have anything

called a freezer

there were no such thing and

it was so hot, so we were scared

the body you know start rotting.

So obviously there was an urgency

to get that post-mortem done.

We did not find

any sign of forceful entry

into the flat.

And the key to the main door

was also lying inside the main house

which had the servant room

where Hemraj slept

in case if there is any weapon

which might have been used

to kill Aarushi

but we did not find

anything important.

During the course of investigation

one of the officers discovered

blood stains on the stair cases

leading to the terrace.