Crucial medical reports, which would have been admissible as documentary evidence in the case of murdered teenager Arushi Talwar and the family’s domestic help Hemraj, have gone missing from the Noida district hospital since the last week of October.

The then chief medical superintendent of the hospital, S C Singhal, reported the matter to the Noida Police immediately. He even informed probing agency — the Central Bureau of Investigation — that a register detailing the pathology findings of Arushi Talwar had disappeared from the department’s cabinets. In fact, the hospital discovered the files were missing after the CBI had asked for the original medical reports.

The CBI has made several trips to the hospital since but has been unable to trace the register. Officers are checking, sources said, if it has been carelessly misplaced.

The new chief medical superintendent, Renu Srivastava, said: “The register went missing when S C Singhal was in charge. He is retired now and I am new to the post. We have not found the register in the hospital nor on any staff. We fully cooperate with the CBI and the police teams whenever they want to go through the files.”

It is learnt the CBI is now going through the inventory of all case documents to check if any other has gone missing when investigations were still fresh. The CBI is also trying to sniff out any possible liasion between the Noida Police and hospital staff.

Suspect Rajkumar’s lawyer Naresh Yadav said: “Rajkumar, Krishna and Mandal were all in the CBI’s or the police’s custody after the murders. Out on bail, Rajkumar and Krishna immediately left for Nepal. The reports went missing much later, in October. Only an insider, or someone of influence, can have access to these documents.”

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