Waiting for forensics, CBI clears father, says Krishna and friends killed Arushi

Though the CBI presented the findings so far of its investigations in the case—which show that Krishna and others entered Arushi’s room to sexually assault her and that Hemraj was killed after a fight—the scientific jigsaw that the probe by now resembles, remains largely unsolved.

In fact, the CBI is still awaiting results of the two most critical forensic tests.

• The CBI has recovered the sample of the vaginal “white discharge” which, as reported by The Indian Express, forensic experts from the AIIMS had stated should have been sent for scientific examination. CBI officials said that the slides with the vaginal swab were indeed collected from the Noida hospital where the post-mortem was conducted and have been sent for forensic examination to two forensic laboratories.

• The other missing forensic evidence remains the report for DNA fingerprinting of the human blood stains found on the T-shirt of Rajkumar, from the forensic laboratory in Hyderabad. CBI officials maintain that scientists in the laboratory say they are “hopeful” of isolating the DNA fingerprint from the garment.

The CBI had succeeded in similarly isolating DNA from semen traces in a washed undergarment in the Madhumita Shukla murder case.

A duplication of scientific tests from different laboratories has been a hallmark of this case since the CBI is yet to clinch it on the basis of either confessions recorded before a magistrate or been able to recover the weapon of offence.

Already, the CBI has dispatched blood samples of Arushi’s parents as well as the suspects Krishna and Rajkumar to the laboratory and are shortly sending the blood sample of Vijay Mandal, the other suspect who was arrested today.

While matching of the DNA fingerprint on the Rajkumar’s T-shirt with that of a suspect was a possible “breakthrough” the agency was awaiting, officials say.

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