Aarushi murder case- A media circus-1

It has been two days since there has been a controversy on the cricket field. While the nation got gripped with the who dunnit in the Aarushi murder case, TRP of every other program went down. Every minute there was a new update on the channels .Some were catching hold of her friends , the others wanted to know what the maid saw. It was surprising that nobody listened to what the maid was saying. The question for how long she had been working in the Talwar house hold was asked at least 10 times by different persons. They believed by asking this they would be able to conclude something about the police theory. It was a disappointment , that the maid had been there for just a week. Something was to be said ,and for everything that the maid answered “ I don't know” , a Sikh gentleman deduced some flaws in the police theory. I switched my over worked remote to another channel.

New flash –

Dr. Talwar is not the real father, Aarushi's mother married him after the death of her first husband.

Damn .I thought ,so this was the reason for her murder. Dr. Talwar was not the real father. Every channel waited for the police conference to happen .

Dr. Talwar along with his wife and Dr. Durrani had been arrested. (So much so for the monsters. Damn high society people, I thought. )

Police finds the murder weapon, Dr. Talwar admits to crime.



A lot was being expected here by the news channels. They wanted the police to admit to everything they had said whole afternoon. Who doesn't like to say “ Look , we told you first.” The police however had other plans. They didn't give any genuine sound bytes ,either due to lack of evidence or to protect the same. However , the murder that had been already been solved by the members of the media ,who had got information through “ Sources in police” suddenly forgot whatever they had been shouting throughout the afternoon.

I was about to doze off , when the police conference started. A Sikh gentleman who is the IG of police Meerut range entered a conference hall teaming with journalists. He started to speak, but was interrupted with “ We can't hear you” from the journalists. He became interested in getting a mike. Finally after a delay of five or so minutes , he began. He seemed confused and mixed up the deceased name , the press had a field day. While he spoke he contradicted himself a couple of times . Questions were thrown at him. He decided not to answer. A poor case study being presented , in which everybody was involved with everybody in an intimate relation ship. It seemed the police top cops had mixed up a Karan Johar movie with a murder mystery.

What jerk offs. The police under pressure had done , what I was thinking will do, from day one. They had made a murderer out of a father , who was still mourning his daughters death. No other person had been arrested . No murder weapon had been found . The IG police explaining in details how it could have been hidden ,thrown or given to some one,after a journalist pestered him about the inefficiency of the police in not being able to find a scalaple in Noida . This person probably had belonged to the news channel flashing the information on the murder weapon.The media immediately retracted from all the statements it had made up till now .So all the information like -

Dr. Talwar wasn't the real father.....

Dr. Durrani arrested along with Dr. Nupur.........

Murder weapon being found........etc were back tracked on. With the new theory in place all the channels now wanted to prove the truth in what the police was saying. After all it was the IG of the state police.

News Flash- Aarushi was seen in a compromising position with Hem raj when Dr. Talwar saw them and in a fit of rage he murdered them. ( I wondered if I was deaf or had misunderstood the IG police. All he had said was Aarushi was close to Hem raj , which her father didn't like.) Fondness with somebody does not mean that a person was involved physically. The kind of sketches the channel showed brought a bad taste in my mouth. I ordered my remote again to take me , where there was some sanity.

The remote followed my instruction but took me to a even weirder channel. There was a video going on with the reporter telling us that the girl in the picture and the one in the video are the same. I thought it was some home video shot by her parents , and the channel was showing it ,in remembrance of Aarushi. I stared at both the pics. They didn't look the same. The girl in the video was no way Aarushi. I had seen enough of her till now. The video began . The girl was changing and the reported with urgency in his voice was trying to convince the audience , it was indeed Aarushi. The video became still , when she started unbuttoning her shirt. Damn these reporters , I thought. “Hem raj was blackmailing the family because he had this video. This was found on Hem raj's mobile that the police had found earlier during the day”. The reporter claimed. Damn Damn Damn. I was shocked . To what extent media can go to get some eye balls. They hadn't even bothered to listen, to what the IG had said. He had mentioned that no phones or weapons had been found yet. The idiots ( I would like to use the “F” word here.) had got a sleazy video from some sick mentality person ( who must be also a reporter) and were defaming a fourteen year old girl with out even checking on the facts.



I couldn't believe my eyes. Not only they had not understood what the IG had said, but were going to full extent to prove , what the police had said. No stone was to be left unturned. I coaxed my remote to take me to Cartoon Network. Watching Tom and Jerry made more sense then watching a fourteen year girl's chastity being abused by these news hounds.



Half an hour later , I was back . The channels were repeating the same old news showing old videos of Dr. Talwar crying , with the news reader making taunts on his actions. His tears are called crocodile tears and his actions a cover up. I switched the Television off.



Day 2-

I switched on my television to find Dr. Nupur sitting in one of the Studios. She looked sad at the turn of the events. Dr. Talwar is in custody . Dr. Durrani has denied all the allegations and its Aarushi's birthday today. May god bless your soul. The media is still trying to find the killer , only now they are trying to prove Dr. Talwar's innocence . Is it a birthday gift for Aarushi. The family driver has spoken up. He says, he kept the mattress on the roof and the police had asked him to wash the room. The driver might had said all this a couple of days back, even yesterday .The media was too busy, proving then , that Dr. Talwar was the monster , who had killed his daughter. Titles like “Killer Papa and and My father My killer .” have been replaced with “ Is Dr. Talwar innocent.” Damn these news channels. Can't even get the right person. Two different channels are showing two different people as drivers of the Talwar family. What a circus.



It does not matter whether Dr. Talwar killed his daughter or not , anymore. The harm has already been done. In this world of fast food news , while the media pressurized the police to nab the killer , they forgot that the crime scene evidence should not be disturbed. Hoards of reporters were seen roaming around the roof ,the day , body of Hem raj was found. If the police had missed out the killer, when they found Aarushi's body , they would never be able to do so because the media now , surely wanted to find the killer themselves. After all the police had failed to find Hem raj corpse on day one. They forgot that they had also been around for the last two days there , but had failed to be Sherlock Holmes themselves. It was a retired police officer who saw the blood stains and later found the body on the terrace.



Today media has become such a force , that they think they can do anything. A team of ten or twelve policemen on the crime scene couldn't have possibly stopped fifty or sixty of these so called investigative reporters , from barging on the roof ,taking pictures and in the bargain destroying evidence. Didn't they realize that they were destroying the very evidence , that could have helped the police nab the killer. When the police didn't find any evidence , they worked on circumstantial evidence and found Dr. Talwar guilty. The media rejoiced , and then the victim's mother and Dr. Durrani spoke to the same media, the media booed the police. Every thing that the media had proved yesterday by showing videos and having interviews with experts is again being backtracked . Now the police is the victim. They want to prove everything the police said is wrong. Interviews with drivers , maids and neighbors are been conducted on a war basis. “What kind a man was Dr. Talwar .” Question like these are being asked to every one who might have come in contact with him during his entire life. It does not matter if the person say , he met him for just two minutes. “But you can still tell us what kind a man was he” . All in the quest of grabbing a few measly points on the TRP rating game.



It won't be surprising that tomorrow some thing new will happen ( Noida being prone to criminal activities.), or some Two year kid will fall in to a ditch , and the same media will rush to the crime scene to destroy evidence and pressurize police to either save or catch the criminal. Things will slowly go back to normal in the L-35 sector of Noida. A small news clip will one day ,tell us if Dr. Talwar was convicted or released , with a picture of Aarushi. We will either rejoice or feel sad about the judgment.

Life will go back to normal for us . The only two people , who will face it for the rest of their lives will be Dr. Talwar and his Wife. After all, haven't we all seen it before. When D-5 ,Nithari in Noida had made it into the lime light, one morning and had kept the nation glued for a couple of days to their TV sets. Nobody still knows whether the Sikh ( I forget his name) owner of the house , was actually involved in the killings or not. It was the media that proved him guilty and the police just followed them.



Note- I haven't named any TV channels here , because I am not trying to prove the inefficiency of any one particular channel here. I am speaking about the incompetency and Coldness of the entire media when treating a death. For them I believe Aarushi has just become a means to get more eyeballs which in turn equates in to a better advertisement revenue. After all Indians love emotions , the better you play on them ,the better attention you get.