Delhi, India: June 14, 2008 – IR Summary/TNN - Krishna in the Noida double murder case had to undergo various tests including lie-detector and psychological assessment, and in fact cleared them, and his replies were as anticipated by the CBI but they claim to have achieved some clues.

As per CBI joint director Arun Kumar, who is heading the probe, told the media that the Compounder Krishnawas was arrested on the basis of scientific findings.

The CBI says that tests on Krishna got CBI crucial leads on the possible involvement of Rajkumar, help of Durranis, in the actual crime, as different from just destruction of evidence that Krishna has been charged with, and a senior executive of the Noida-based private company who happens to be very close to Dr. Rajesh Talwar.

Rajkumar is believed to be very close to the Talwars and a trusted attendant of Dr Anita Durrani. He often visited the Talwar household, and was well known to Hemraj as well. Sleuths were tracking down his mobile phone records to establish his location at the time of the murders and his calls during that period.

Again, it was Krishna who revealed during the lie-detector tests about the presence of Talwars' friend, senior executive of the Noida-based private company, on the spot just after the killing.

The compounder had mentioned the presence of the executive on the crime spot on March 16 to Noida police, but feigned ignorance about the issue when quizzed by the CBI on it. Krishna told the Noida cops that the executive was the first person to be informed of the twin murders by Talwars, and that it was he who instructed him (the compounder) to wash Aarushi's room and remove the mattress and pillows there to the terrace.

The discrepancy between the statement that Krishna gave to Noida police and the version he shared with CBI, however, focused the investigators' interest in the executive whose car the Talwars took to Haridwar to immerse Aarushi's remains.

The investigators were waiting for the executive to return from abroad, and look set to question him on the crucial aspects of the case in the light of information gleaned from Krishna.

Sources in Bangalore's FSL, where Krishna underwent the tests, confirmed that the Nepali compounder had revealed, besides the details of weapons used in the twin murders, more names who "knew about the case".

Interestingly, days after the murders, an anonymous letter had reached Noida police, with copies marked to the UP chief minister and DGP, asking the cops to look at the complicity of the executive who is close to the Durranis as well. The cops saw, not unjustifiably, the letter as a frame-up device.

Sources indicated that no fresh leads have emerged to suggest that Krishna's role extended beyond the destruction of evidence. "As of now, the charge against Krishna is that he concealed facts related to the crime which he was supposed to part with before the investigators. We are still quizzing him and others to establish if he was involved in the case directly as well or not," a senior CBI officer told TOI.

Reacting to the the developments, Dinesh Talwar, brother of Rajesh, said the investigation would soon prove the innocence of the Noida dentist. An agency quoted him as saying, "I am happy that the CBI is working hard to find out the truth. We just pray that the truth comes out fast. That way, Rajesh's innocence will be proved and the real culprit will be brought to justice."

The case has many faces, failures and successes, it is a case Krishna's test and CBI's arrest and success.