28 March,2011 08:05 AM IST | | Shashank Shekhar
Khumkala Banjade, widow of the slain domestic help of the Talwars, speaks to MiD DAY about the 'forgotten man'
Khumkala is demanding a speedy trial and she has also submitted a four-page application in the court of Special Judicial Magistrate (CBI) Preeti Singh in Ghaziabad. "No one cared to inform us that Hemraj had been killed. We only came to know about this through locals. Hemraj was a loyal servant to the Talwars, but they never called us up to inform. When my husband was declared a criminal everybody was interested to know his whereabouts. When his body was found lying on the roof, no one bothered to find out who had killed him so mercilessly.
Everybody in India is interested in getting justice for Aarushi! What about my husband?" said Khumkal
Hemraj's family also alleges that no investigating agency came to question them about anything. "We feel we have been denied justice. The couple (Talwars) ruined our life. He called us up from a PCO fifteen days before the incident.
He repeatedly told me that his life was in danger and he wanted to quit the job," Khumkal said.
She also claimed that Hemraj had told her on various occasions that he was being threatened by the Talwars. Khumkala also stated that during his visit to Nepal in December 2007, Hemraj told her that Rajesh was an influential and short-tempered man. "Rajesh Talwar rebuked him for the smallest of mistakes and had also tried to beat him up on a few occasions. He also mentioned that Rajesh threatened him not to disclose any family matters to anyone," she told MiD DAY.
"My son Pranjal is now 14 years old and we are not able to send him to school. He was suffering from multiple diseases when his father was killed and we could not even pay the medical bills; the cost was borne by my brother-in-law. My mother-in-law Krishnakala Banjade is suffering from acute tuberculosis and a huge chunk of our income goes in paying the medical bills. We are devastated by the death of my husband. I will not send Pranjal to India for any job ever," Khumkala added.
Whodunnit
May 16, 2008: Aarushi Talwar found murdered in her bedroom. Domestic help Hemraj, who was missing, suspected as the killer.
May 17: Hemraj's body found on the terrace of Talwars' residential building.
May 18: Police suspect "insider job" as the murders were done "with surgical precision".
May 19: Talwar's former domestic help Vishnu Sharma named suspect.
May 21: Delhi Police joins murder probe.
May 23: Aarushi's father Rajesh Talwar arrested as a key accused.
June 1: CBI takes over the probe in the case.
June 13: CBI arrests Talwar's domestic help Krishna .
June 20: Lie detection test of Rajesh Talwar conducted.
June 25: Second lie detection test conducted on Nupur Talwar. Her first lie detection test was found inconclusive.
June 26: CBI declares it a "blind case". Rajesh Talwar denied bail by Ghaziabad court.
July 3: Supreme Court rejects a PIL challenging the administration of narco-analysis test on the accused in the case.
July 12: Rajesh Talwar freed on bail.
January 5, 2010: CBI moves court to conduct narco test on Talwar couple.
December 29: CBI submits closure report. Gives clean chit to servants, but points fingers at parents.
January 25, 2011: Utsav Sharma, alleged attacker of Ruchika Girhotra molester -- former Haryana DGP S.P.S. Rathore -- attacks Rajesh Talwar with a cleaver on Ghaziabad court premises.
February 9: Court takes cognisance of CBI report and asks it to continue with prosecution charging Aarushi's parents with murder and destruction of evidence.
