Talwars want to be left alone, no intention to sue cops

FREE MAN: Dr Rajesh Talwar walked free after spending 50 days in Ghaziabad’s Dasna Jail.

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New Delhi: As Dr Rajesh Talwar, who was accused in the Arushi-Hemraj murder case, walked free after 50 days in Ghaziabad’s Dasna Jail, all he wanted was to be left alone.

“Please let me spend some time with my family. In the past 50 days I have not been able to share my grief with anyone,” Talwar said.

But there was no end in sight to the media frenzy as they followed his every step from the jail to the temple and to his house. It's the sort of unwanted attention the Talwars are perhaps used to.

The murder of 14-year-old Arushi Talwar was a classic whodunit for the media, but it was the UP Police that provided fodder for speculations.

A week into the probe and this is what the UP Police came up with: “Arushi and Hemraj were aware of the extra-marital relationship of Dr Talwar. And slowly they both developed intimate relationships,” IG Meerut Zone Gurdarshan Singh said.

Friends and relatives were outraged with Arushi’s character assassination and after the CBI gave Rajesh Talwar the clean chit, many including Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Choudhary suggested that the Talwars sue the UP Police and a section of the media.

“The way they (police) spoke about a young girl was just not done. I really feel they (Talwars) should sue the UP Police and the Chief Minister should stand up for this,” Choudhary said.

But the Talwar family wants to let bygones be bygones. “Our primary objective at this moment is to let Rajesh settle down. Give him a chance to share his grief, which he was not able to do earlier,” Rajesh Talwar's brother, Dinesh Talwar, said.

As Rajesh and Nupur Talwar now try to get on with their lives, television cameras will eventually leave them alone, but what will perhaps haunt them for ever is the humiliation they had to undergo because of a bumbling police force and a media that forgot journalistic ethics.