Aarushi murder: Youth attacks Rajesh Talwar with meat cleaver

Talwar was hit on the face by a meat cleaver.

He was attacked by 29-year-old Utsav Sharma – he is the same person who had attacked former DGP SPS Rathore,main accused in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation-cum-suicide case.

Talwar had fallen to the ground thereafter but had picked himself up unsteadily while holding his forehead – he looked like he was in control of his movements.

Talwar kept hiding his face from the public during the entire episode.

54-year-old Talwar had gone to the court to file a petition demanding a fresh probe by the CBI in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case.

Talwar was attacked when he was standing next to a photocopying shop after he came out of the court after filing his plea.

Earlier,Talwar had moved an 86-page protest petition against CBI’s closure report in the Aarushi-Hemraj case.

14-year-old Aarushi was found murdered at her residence in 2008. The body of their domestic help Hemraj was found in the terrace of the house later.

The young man had refused to run away and allowed himself to be caught.

People gathered there then started beating the young man.

Talwar was at one time an accused in the murder of his daughter,Arushi.

The lawyers gathered at the spot were seen shouting slogans against the police for lax security arrangements,while others were seen rushing to beat the youth.

The young man refused to hide his face,allowing blows by policemen,lawyers and other bystanders to rain on him unhindered.

Rajesh Talwar was rushed to the hospital by his lawyers.

The motive of the assailant,according to the police is that the wheels of justice in India are too slow and that people are getting away for murder and worse.

The attack is entirely reminiscent of the one Utsav Sharma carried out on former DGP of Haryana SPS Rathore who was convicted for the molestation of 14-year-old tennis player Ruchika Girhotra in 1990 – she went on to commit suicide after Rathore’s goons kept harassing her family.

Rathore was attacked with a pocket-knife by Sharma,a student of the prestigious National Institute of Design(NID) in Ahmedabad.

Rathore was not seriously injured in that attack despite being slashed in the face thrice.

The young man was out on bail.

Talwar’s condition stable: doctors

The condition of Rajesh Talwar,father of murdered teenager Aarushi who was today attacked by a 30-year-old man,is stable,doctors attending on him said.

54-year-old Talwar was admitted in the city’s Apollo hospital with injuries in the right side of the forehead and the hands which he suffered when he was attacked by Utsav Sharma outside a Ghaziabad court.

According to the doctors,Talwar was bleeding profusely when he was brought to the hospital.

“His condition is stable. He has undergone a surgery in the right temporal region of the face and in the hands as they had deep cuts.

“The wounds though did not extend to the brain but two arteries in the forehead were cut badly and that is why he bled too much. Both his hands had deep cuts. He is undergoing a plastic surgery of the face at the same time and his hands are being taken care of,” an Apollo Hospital doctor said.

Doctors were unable to state as to how long Talwar may required hospital stay. “We will keep him under observation for some time and then discharge him,” a doctor said.

Talwar had gone to the court to file a petition demanding a fresh probe by the CBI in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case.