Arushi's email is 1 year old: Nupur | The new 'evidence'

WHO DUNNIT: Nupur says the mail in question was sent to her and not to Rajesh Talwar.

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New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh police have submitted transcripts of emails and messages sent by Arushi to her father and three friends in the Noida district court as evidence in the sensational double murder case.

The police – in an apparently hasty attempt to nail Dr Rajesh Talwar – say these documents are a reflection on Arushi’s “social behaviour” that angered her father.

However, Arushi’s mother Nupur Talwar says these exchanges were nothing but routine.

In fact, on CNN-IBN show India at 9, Nupur claimed the mail in question is one year old and was actually sent to her and not to Dr Talwar.

“Two things which I want everyone to know. First, this e-mail is dated about a year ago – Sunday, April 8, 2007. Second, this e-mail was sent to me. I do not have a separate e-mail id and the mails that are sent to me go to the same id of Dr Talwar,” she said.

Nupur also clarified the discussion in the mail pertains to Arushi’s request to go out for a movie with friends. “It is a normal discussion between parents and children. It was regarding a movie Arushi wanted to see with her friends alone. It was a Sunday and we wanted that she went with us to see the movie. We tried to convince her into it. But she said her friends do it and they are allowed movies alone. Finally Dr Talwar said okay and he spoke with her friends. I went and brought her tickets and I even dropped her there and dropped her friends back home too,” Nupur said.

She also explained the reason why the mail was sent. “I felt - like any other mother would – that may be Arushi should have listened to us. I told her that she should have listened and gone to the movie with us and she was just feeling bad about it.”

Nupur also said she was aware of the SMSs Arushi exchanged with the boys of her class. “Like every parent, I would get curious when a message would pop up on her mobile phone. So I would ask her and she wouod show me those messages,” she said. Nupur also said she was not aware the UP police had produced the transcript in court. “I get to know of this only through you guys (the media). I did not know these mails still existed. They (police) have our computers for a week now and hard disks have been taken,” she said.

But can these transcripts be used as evidence?

Senior Supreme Court lawyer Pinky Anand said the evidence – if at all it can be called that – is flimsy. “There are attempts to magnify some innocuous exchanges. Teenagers indulge in a lot of conversations. If we distort them, it’s hardly evidence. Law requires specific links, circumstantial evidence. This really is a mockery and police are going backward s and making their case weak,” she said.

“Look at Nitish Katara for example. Nobody saw the murder happening but there was a direct connection, a motive. If we are relying on these SMSs or mails, we must curtail magnifying., nothing can be sustained on this alone. I can’t digest this flimsy piece of evidence,” she said.

Nupur concluded the discussion criticizing the UP police. “They've been questioning us and if this is what they have come up with, they have made a fool of themselves.”