The special CBI court in Ghaziabad on Monday questioned the investigating agency on its hurry to file the closure report in the sensational murder case of teenager Aarushi Talwar. The closure report was filed on December 29 before a remand magistrate and not in the concerned Ghaziabad court which has been hearing the case all through. Special Judicial Magistrate (CBI) Preeti Singh on Monday scolded CBI counsel R K Saini when he submitted the closure report before her. She asked him why the CBI had not come to the concerned court first. "What was the hurry (in filing a closure report)? Where are the documents (annexures) of the closure report?" the magistrate asked Saini as soon as the hearing began. "Our process is that we file the closure report when a decision in this regard is taken," Saini replied. He also said the CBI submitted the report in a hurry because it wanted to clear backlog. The magistrate then registered the closure report and gave time to the investigating officer to also submit the annexures. The court is now expected to decide whether the case should be re-investigated. Later in the afternoon,the court fixed January 7 as the day it will hear the plea on the CBI's closure report. Meanwhile,the court also rejected the teenagers father Rajesh Talwar's plea to challenge the agencys findings. In its closure report,the CBI had named him as the prime suspect but said it did not have the evidence to prosecute him. The report was filed last week after two-and-a-half years of investigation. Rajesh and his wife Nupur,both dentists,have lashed out at the CBI for making false and baseless allegations against them. By this closure report all I can say is that the CBI has condemned us for life. They have put all kinds of false allegations upon us without any evidence. This has been completely shocking for us, Nupur said. A completely unscientific investigation has taken place. It is very upsetting and disappointing. I dont know where justice for my child has gone, she said. In its closure report,the CBI gave a clean chit to three domestic helps Krishna,Raj Kumar and Vijay Mandal who were picked up as suspects. Fourteen-year-old Aarushi was found murdered,with her throat slit,at the Talwars residence in Noida on the morning of May 16,2008. The body of Hemraj,the Talwars help,was found on the terrace the next day.
